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A recent yoga newsletter mentioned that the wellness of each individual person in a community affected the health of the entire community, and so as yoga teachers we should think about what we’re doing to help individual wellness and community wellness off and on the mat. Sounds like a good thing to do, right? It got me to thinking about how as a neurodivergent person I often don’t feel like I’m a part of a community. Even when I’m in community with others, and I believe that they want me there and support me, I often still feel excluded from the group, like I’m existing wrong in that space, or don’t conform to those individuals’ expectations. Pride is no different.
The grief that comes from feeling separated from your community happens for a lot of reasons. As I discuss in this episode, my grief comes in part from my gender dysphoria, my rejection sensitive dysphoria, and my cPTSD in addition to being neurodivergent and being surrounded by a lot of neurotypical and masking neurodivergent individuals. It can’t be siloed into specific reasons, and they all go together.
That means when we begin to work with this grief, to understand it, to companion it, rather than try to shove it away or use it as a cudgel with which to blame ourselves, we need to have an approach that goes beyond pride and an approach that lasts all year long.
In this episode I begin to discuss this, and you’re invited to join a neurodivergent grief circle.
Join us on the third Tuesday of each month from 2pm to 3:30 pm central (US) time for a grief circle focused on neurodivergent individuals and their grief.
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I’d love to hear from you. Reach out and contact me. Let me know how you fit in with my work and what you’d like to chat about. I’m happy to bring in new voices and perspectives, but just so you’re aware, I won’t promote anyone who is selling quick fixes, trying to exploit the communities I’m a part of, or who outright dismisses the work I’m doing. I’m a firm believer we have to stop putting silos around things and understand the glorious interplay between such things as our mental health, our well-being, living authentic and embodied, as well as some of the harms caused by a psychology practice that has for too long been centered in a cis, white, neurotypical, heterosexual frame. Want to know more? Contact me.
