Welcome to the Chicken Yogi Show

The Chicken Yogi Show exists at the intersection of lived neurodivergent experience, spirituality, liberation, and creativity to help neurodivergent individuals connect with themselves and with the wider universe. Too many people are trying to tell how neurodivergent people should live in a world designed for neurotypicals–be more productive, do more, act more neurotypical–and few people are discussing the creative and spiritual lives of those who are neurodivergent.  A

An outspoken spirituality and creativity mentor, Kit Caelsto shares from their lived experience as an extra spicy neurodivergent person who exists in a trans and disabled body. They’re not afraid to talk about controversial topics or get into the policy weeds, all while maintaining information that especially the neurodivergent and chronically ill community can use. Expect to hear about  topics such as spirituality, pursuing connection, remembering who you are, yoga, meditation, socioeconomic impacts, liberation (autistic, disabled, and mad liberation), and the intersection of how living as part of a marginalized group can impact any or all of this.

 

Episode 29: A Message to Neurodivergent Coaches

Episode 29: A Message to Neurodivergent Coaches

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...

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Episode 28: How Unmasking Affects Burnout

Episode 28: How Unmasking Affects Burnout

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...

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Episode 27: Remembering Who You Are

Episode 27: Remembering Who You Are

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...

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Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain

Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain

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...

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Episode 24: Spirituality and Neurodivergent Burnout

Episode 24: Spirituality and Neurodivergent Burnout

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...

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Episode 21 – Ending Season 1 With a Transition

Episode 21 – Ending Season 1 With a Transition

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...

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Episode 18: Rethinking Our Stories

What stories are you telling yourself? When you hear voices or narratives in your head talking about you, your choices, your life, whose voices are they? Where did they come from? One of the hardest and most important things late diagnosed (and all diagnosis...

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Episode 17: Rekindling Yoga’s Power of Liberation

Episode 17: Rekindling Yoga’s Power of Liberation

Liberation has been forgotten in the modern yoga movement, especially modern postural yoga, from which today's yoga studios, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga organizations have arisen. And yet, if we put the liberation back into yoga, we can use it as a tool for...

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Episode 16: Same Foods and Wellness

Episode 16: Same Foods and Wellness

Today's show discusses same foods within the context of being neurodivergent and chronically ill. We discuss how food is trust and how same foods represent a trust with your body, which is vital to feeling safe and well. We'll also talk about how same foods help...

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Weight Loss Programs & Weight Stigma

Weight Loss Programs & Weight Stigma

Did you know you can now "watch" our podcasts on YouTube? Check it out and subscribe to our channel. The entire weight loss industry is built around two things: control and making money. Except our weight isn't an indicator of health and it isn't something that's 100%...

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