What does the Tower tarot card, the wild, and our current poly-crisis situation have in common? Dogma. The unwavering belief that some humans have that things should not and could not be changed because that is how they were always done.
And yet, dogma is a very human construction like a lot of other things.…
I did an earlier episode about the spiritual care buffet, but lately I've been thinking about just how the different things I do go together and why I offer all these different things. So today, I want to speak a little bit about that and why having so many options can be beneficial to those…
Radical acceptance is a powerful tool that can help ease anxiety and stress. Drawing upon the Buddhist belief that attachment/desire causes suffering, radical acceptance allows us to see things as they truly are and then work from there to make any desired changes.
This episode references Tara Brach's work including her book Radical Acceptance.
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We're continuing our journey through grief by talking about three types of grief that aren't really discussed by most grief coaches or even therapists. These types of grief are very common among those who are neurodivergent, queer, chronically ill, or disabled. Listen to find out what they are and how changing the conversation around grief…
CW: This episode talks about disordered eating, food intolerance, weight loss, and restrictive diets.
Now that I'm starting to feel better, I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with food and how it's completely tangled with my neurodivergent brain. That's led me to restrict my food intake, follow rigid rules, and have a lot…
The show has been on a hiatus the last couple of weeks because I've been dealing with some health issues mainly stemming from an Alpha Gal diagnosis and learning how to manage the symptoms and what triggers them. Since talking about the diagnosis with some individuals, one of the questions that comes up is: What…
For our final episode of pride month, I'm talking abut how we can take up space and claim membership in communities even when we don't feel welcome, and how self-abandonment relates to that. Without getting technical or into psychology jargon, the first step is to stop abandoning ourselves.
I begin by defining and talking about…
In last week's show I talked about the grief of feeling like you're excluded from the communities that you are a part of and how that especially feels for neurodivergent and disabled individuals. This week I'm speaking to the communities themselves and talking about what they can do to help people feel more included.
Disabilities…
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…
Bhakti is the practice of loving devotion designed to bring you closer to the divine. Spirituality is the connection to something larger than yourself, something outside of yourself, and doesn't necessarily have to do with religion or divinity. What do these two things have in common? Because when you put them together with tools for…
I recently came across the term "hyperverbal autism" and it described me perfectly. When I shared the post on social media, many people I knew (who were also neurodivergent) said that explained them too, and the curious thing was, until now, no one had heard the term before.
What did we have in common? That…
On a recent podcast I heard the hosts talk about how once they stopped focusing on struggle, they stopped attracting it. And I admit, my eyebrows went up. I might have screamed a little too, because there's no such thing as attracting struggle, and we need to stop blaming people for the bad things that…
As promised the show is back from hiatus and I wanted to announce a bit of a realignment. I've given the website a bit of a polish and wanted to take a few moments to talk to you about the change in focus that is coming to Feathermane Soul Wisdom. I'll have more announcements in…
There will be a brief break in podcast recording. Right now I am dealing with a cold/illness and I'm also taking a class on Sunday afternoons, which is when I usually record the podcast. The class will be over after next month, so I anticipate the break not lasting more than a few weeks. But…
There's been a bit of a break in the show recording schedule in part because I've been dealing with things, and part of that is that I've been thinking about systems that aren't meant for neurodivergent people. Spirituality as it is conceived by the bulk of society is one of those things. Our need to…
We tend to think of our mental health and physical health as separate. The same thing is true of our spiritual story and our mental health. Quite often modern therapy doesn't deal with our spiritual story, or does so in a purely religious sense. So in this episode I talk about how our spiritual story…