The Chicken Yogi Show

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about unmasking including what I do, which is help people unmask their true selves, and how this relates to being an embodied being with all of our social, cultural, and integrated thoughts, feelings and “norms”. The truth is, there are a lot of people who claim to help ND individuals unmask to prevent burnout, but if they’re also not unpacking our capitalist, neurotypical s...

One of the biggest tips given to neurodivergent people succumbing to burnout is to unmask–fully and completely. But like anything offered as a “cure” or a “quick fix”, unmasking in this manner can actually acerbate burnout. In this episode, I discuss why unmasking can make burnout worse at times and what you can do to prevent that from happening. We’ll go through a method to safely unmask and way...

Remember who you were before the world told you who you couldn’t be.

To me this is an extremely powerful statement and one that I help people with through my yoga philosophy based spiritual mentoring. I talk about this statement, the three steps to working through and remembering who you are at your core–your soul, your pneuma, your qi, your prana–and why this kind of work doesn’t happen overnight and ou...

The stories we tell ourselves affect more than just our mental health and the way we think. These stories also affect our spiritual self because too often the stories are tied to the way we learned and processed our spirituality. Additionally, the stories we tell ourselves can contribute to the disconnect and dissonance which leads to burn out.

This week I’m discussing how the stories we tell ourselves got started and how ...

This week I go a bit deeper into the blog posts I wrote reviewing the book How To Keep House While Drowning and my post about my procrastinated (but now finished!) yard project. I’ll break down the four things that are necessary for shame, why shame doesn’t always look or feel like shame in our bodies, and how the stories we tell ourselves get in the way of our true, authentic selves, and how stories others tell/give us...

How does spirituality help keep burnout, especially neurodivergent burnout, in remission? And what are the three D’s of burnout and how can spirituality help them? Learn how dissonance, demands, and disconnection lead to burnout and the ways in which spirituality can counteract these without adding more to your to do list or making you feel overwhelmed. I’ll also discuss what I believe spirituality is. Hint — it&#...

This week’s episode follows up on last week’s when I talked about what a dark night of the soul was and how it specifically applied to neurodivergent individuals. After a quick recap of what I mean when I talk about neurodivergence, and an explanation of how I consider autistic/neurodivergent burnout to be different from “regular” burnout (and we all know “regular” is a misnomer, right?), I then ...

Welcome to season 2 of the podcast. I am proud to announce we’re now distributed by the MuseCharmer Network. I believe we’ll be appearing other places soon as well, so stay tuned!

CW: This week’s episode begins our discussion of the Dark Night of the Soul which may include talk about difficult emotions, feelings, thoughts, and what is commonly thought of as mental health.

As I alluded to in last week’...

We’re ending our first season of the podcast with an explanation on a shift in focus. As you know there’s been a break in the show, and I explained why that happened (life, college, disability, burnout, finding focus, etc.), but also, I realized that to be true to my authentic self I needed to pivot.

So many people are talking about neurodivergent wellness and they’re doing so from a standpoint of how to make ...