The Chicken Yogi Show shares spiritual wisdom to help neurodivergent people find liberation and radical self-love and acceptance. Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you couldn’t be? The host, Kit Caelsto, is a trauma-informed spiritual mentor working through a liberation lens including yoga philosophy and spirituality to help you drop the masks and be your authentic self.
Body theology is a way of looking our experiences in the world, and our relationships and connections to ourselves, and to something larger than ourselves, such as the universe as a whole, from the perspective that we are embodied, whole, complete human beings with body schemas and lived experience. It’s not doctrine, nor is it […] The post Episode 30: Why Body Theology Is Vital For Neurodivergent People first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
9/15/24 • 22:23
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 […] The post Episode 29: A Message to Neurodivergent Coaches first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
9/8/24 • 28:29
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 […] The post Episode 28: How Unmasking Affects Burnout first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
7/16/24 • 20:17
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, […] The post Episode 27: Remembering Who You Are first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
7/8/24 • 25:58
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 […] The post Episode 26: How Do Our Stories Affect Burnout and Our Spirituality? first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
7/2/24 • 23:39
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 […] The post Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
6/9/24 • 30:48
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 […] The post Episode 24: Spirituality and Neurodivergent Burnout first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
5/20/24 • 20:54
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” […] The post Episode 23: Similarities Between Neurodivergent Burnout and a Dark Night of the Soul first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
5/5/24 • 28:41
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, […] The post Episode 22: An Overview of the Dark Night of the Soul and Neurodivergence first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
4/28/24 • 28:54
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. […] The post Episode 21 – Ending Season 1 With a Transition first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.
4/21/24 • 16:58
