by Kit Caelsto | Mar 26, 2023 | mental health, neurodivergence
As autistic individuals, we know that autistic burnout affects us deeply. It impacts our ability to work, take care of ourselves, take care of others, and even complete day to day tasks. The symptoms are many including exhaustion, mental fog, losing words or the...
by Kit Caelsto | Mar 5, 2023 | emotions and feelings, mental health, neurodivergence
Interestingly enough it was an article in the Harvard Business Review (Decisions and Desire) that prompted a bit of an “aha moment” around being autistic and social cues/social interactions. In the article, the author says: The amygdala responds...
by Kit Caelsto | Feb 5, 2023 | anti-fat bias, chronic wellness, mental health, neurodivergence
One of the most important things you can do for your overall wellness is to think about your internalized messages. There are several components to the messages about ourselves that we take to our subconscious, and all of them deserve examining. Doing this work...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 29, 2023 | emotions and feelings, mental health, Spiritual Thoughts
I’ve lived in the Ozarks for a decade and though I’ve heard stories about days-long power outages (or even ones that last *shudders* for more than a week), I’d never experienced one. As our well runs on electricity, I admit that it was one of my...
by Kit Caelsto | Nov 27, 2022 | chronic wellness, health, mental health
Although I’ve lived with a chronic illness, and a medically abandoned one at that, for two decades now, I read something on Twitter the other day that’s stuck with me. The gist of the post was that for those of us with chronic illness (and I’d argue...
by Kit Caelsto | Nov 25, 2022 | emotions and feelings, mental health
Cultivating a forgiveness practice can be one of the most important things you can do for yourself, especially if you’ve received messages throughout your life that somehow you’re wrong or broken. Now, I’m not talking about forgiving other people....