


The Power To Be Found When You Crow & Flow
If I could distill the Chicken Yogi Way down to one simple concept it’s that you should be free to crow & flow. What does that mean? It means speaking your truth, making noise when necessary (or for fun), and flowing with life as you work from your heart and...
What Helps Pain Catastrophizing in Fibromyalgia?
Catastrophizing means that someone becomes obsessed with the worst possible outcome and treats it as likely, even when it’s not. For chronic pain sufferers, and especially people with fibromyalgia who often don’t receive adequate pain treatment, it means...
Why should we care about energy work?
The very idea of energy work, chakras, reiki, harmonic vibrations, and other associated concepts, is often dismissed by people who claim to be rational and scientific. And yet, the scientific community has started to take notice and if you go to a database that holds...
Less Workout and More Quiet Conversations With Yoga
Our busy lives don’t give us time to have conversations with ourselves, let alone check in with our bodies, our hearts, our souls. Instead, our minds race a thousand miles an hour and quieting that chatter–not completely–but bringing us into the...
Telling New Stories About Work Beyond Capitalism
When it comes to our working lives, the stories we tell ourselves, and more importantly the stories the world tells about us influence not just the jobs we get, but also how we feel about ourselves and our work. The statistics about neurodivergent (not just Autistic...
Why the Sacred Needs To Be Part of Daily Life
Many of the people I talk to are so busy with the work-sleep-eat hustle that capitalism forces us into that they don’t have time for the spiritual or the sacred in their lives. I know that as I put the pieces back together from my burnout and craft the life I...
Tapping Into the Spiritual to Ease Burnout
Burnout advice on the internet tends to ignore the fact that humans need connection and safety in order to thrive. As a neurodivergent person, the demands of living in a world built for neurotypicals means that most of the time that sense of safety simply...
Forgiveness Requires that We Be Seen as Human
I’m taking a Psychology of Happiness class this semester, an elective toward my psychology degree, which with each passing semester, I’m realizing truly, deeply does not see me, as an autistic individual, a disabled individual harmed by the medical...
It’s Not Accessible If You Don’t Feel Like You Belong
Accessible yoga has become a buzzword lately. People talk about making their yoga accessible, trauma-informed, inclusive, and I am glad to hear these concepts being discussed. However, when the discussion is still being had in groups that center the able-bodied...