Feathermane Soul Wisdom

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Feathermane Soul Wisdom shares spiritual wisdom to help neurodivergent people find liberation and radical self-love and acceptance. The host, Kit Caelsto, is a trauma-informed spiritual mentor working through a wide liberation lens including disability liberation, mad liberation, neurodivergent liberation, and queer liberation. They use yoga philosophy and spirituality to help you drop the masks and be your fully embodied and amazingly divine authentic self.

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Episodes 39

Changing Food Habits, Grief, and Neurodivergent Living
28d ago · 40:30
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 of shame around eating and to some extent that has continued after I was diagnosed as neurodivergent. This episode works to break down the intersection between executive function, wanting vs. needing to change your food intake, how that is impacted by being neurod
"Useless Ticks", Alpha Gal, and Disability Pride
1mo ago · 28:29
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 purpose do ticks serve anyway? Aren’t they just parasites? That’s an important question, but also a dangerous one. Since it’s disability pride month, I thought I’d talk about what “useless” really means, what role ticks play in the environment, how this connects with Wild Spirit Storyt
When Wild Spirit Storytelling and Pain Collide (blogcast)
1mo ago · 5:57
I recently heard a discussion about the Arrow Sutra, the story that the Buddha told about the two arrows. The first is the unavoidable suffering that happens as a part of life; the second is how we perceive the suffering. Now I’m going to stop and tell you that this blog is not about just thinking about our suffering different, but rather, this is how wild spirit storytelling, ecosystem restoration, and living in a body filled with pain collide and how our stories are that second arrow. I encourage you to explore this thought with me. Want to visit the blog post? Check it out on my website. Wa
Self-Abandonment and Making Space (Pride Episode)
2mo ago · 24:23
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 self-abandonment, then discuss more broadly how to take up space or make space for yourself, even when you’re a community of one. I hope that this episode helps you feel less alone and perhaps helps you to see that you matter, you are not alone, and you are a member of
Find Time For Treats (Blogcast)
2mo ago · 4:17
In this week’s horse wisdom blog, I think about how the horses really enjoyed treats when the farrier came and how too often we don’t make time in our own lives to enjoy the good things. You can read the blog here. Sometimes when we’re grieving or because we’ve internalized stories that we’ve been told, we don’t think we deserve good things and this is very far from the truth. We all deserve good things, and we all deserve time to slow down and enjoy them. What are you going to enjoy today? Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can s
When Your Body Doesn't Feel Sacred (blogcast)
2mo ago · 4:57
In this week’s body theology blog I talk about when your body doesn’t feel sacred. If you’re dealing with a chronic illness, disability, food allergy, burnout, or just don’t feel “good”, then there’s a chance you don’t see just how sacred your body is. I offer you powerful tips to start seeing every aspect of your body, even the unpleasant ones, as sacred and discuss just how powerful accepting your body however it is at the moment can be. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and become a guest.
Creating Inclusive Communities (Pride Episode)
2mo ago · 24:18
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 aren’t always visible, and the vast spectrum of neurodifferent brains also means that you can’t tell by looking at someone whether they are neurodivergent or not. This means the responsibility is on community leaders, on groups, and on each individual community member
The Grief of Community Separation (Pride Episode)
2mo ago · 30:36
If you’re queer and neurodivergent you can feel separated from your community this pride month. If you do not outwardly look like your gender, then you can feel separated from your community this pride month. These two things are not separate. They are part of the larger ways in which we might feel separated from our community during pride and why we might be grieving. In this episode, I discuss the grief of community separation, some reasons why it happens, especially to neurodivergent LGBTQIA2s+ individuals, and some ways to face it so that we can begin to journey with our grief, not just ig
Blogcast: Horses Teach Us Forgiveness
2mo ago · 4:13
In this blogcast, I share this week’s horse wisdom blog talking about forgiveness. Radical acceptance can help us to forgive ourselves, which can help our rejection sensitive dysphoria and can help us learn from the horses and from the world around us. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and become a guest.
Nervous System Regulation and Devotion To Self
2mo ago · 27:57
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 nervous system regulation like yoga and mindfulness, you can cultivate a devotion to the parts of yourself that are worthy of support, of care, and of nurturing, and those parts which are connected to the wider global community of humanity and the universe itself.
Blogcast: Horses Don't Mind The Rain
2mo ago · 5:13
This Horse Wisdom blogcast talks about how horses don’t mind when it rains and how we can apply that to when “rain” happens in our own lives. Learn the one question to ask when you’re not sure what you need in the moment and learn from the sacred herd. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and become a guest.
Blogcast: Meditation, Concentration, and the Neurodivergent Mind
3mo ago · 4:14
This is a blogcast episode, an audio recording of the latest Body Theology blog posted on Feathermane Soul. Now you can listen on the go, and this also makes the blog more accessible. Meditation is a great way for me to tune into my body. When I start to feel anxious, I focus on my breath, usually for no more than five minutes, and this helps me understand where the anxiety is coming from. Once I have this knowledge, I can move forward. The problem is too many people think they’re meditating wrong when they can’t quiet the mind. So in this short blog, I discuss why those “returning to the prac
Hyperverbal Autism and Neurodivergent Grief
3mo ago · 20:44
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 we were all very much into books, reading, and language. We were all former gifted kids, and now that we were older, we had or are facing burnout, exhaustion, and frustration with our lack of support. There was also something else underneath that: grief. We mourned for the younger version o
Blogcast: Trusting In Something Larger Than Yourself (Horse wisdom)
3mo ago · 4:38
This is a blogcast episode, an audio recording of the latest blog posted on Feathermane Soul. Now you can listen on the go, and this also makes the blog more accessible. This week’s horse wisdom has me turning to the sacred herd to learn how to trust myself. Horses don’t question whether they do the right thing. They do what they feel they need to do for survival. They obey herd dynamics, but most of all they live in the now and learn from what they do. When we look to horses, or trust in something larger than ourselves, literally in this case, we can see the patterns in nature and know that w
Blogcast: What Wild Spirit Storytelling Looks Like
3mo ago · 4:26
This is a blogcast episode, an audio recording of the latest blog posted on Feathermane Soul. Now you can listen on the go, and this also makes the blog more accessible. My work involves Wild Spirit Storytelling^TM^. What is it? How does the process look? And when you come up against the realization that you, or something about you, has fundamentally changed, how does the process help you to reveal and rediscover your core self? This blog begins to answer those questions. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and becom
Why it's important someone like me is speaking about yoga, chronic illness, and disability
4mo ago · 4:59
Welcome to the first blogcast episode for Feathermane Soul. I am hoping to bring the blog posts to you in audio format so you can listen to them on the go, as well as for accessibility reasons. In today’s blog, I talk about why I think it’s important people like myself are seen doing yoga online and what it means to me to be able to do this work. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and become a guest.
There's No Such Thing As Attracting Struggle
4mo ago · 32:16
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 happen, especially when so many of them are caused by socio-cultural-economic factors. As we begin the second season of the Feathermane Soul Wisodm show I encourage you to think about how you can connect with your wild spirit and be untameable. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Featherma
Event Announcement: Monthly Pagan Grief Circles
4mo ago · 19:30
I am pleased to announce that starting May 17 I will be hosting monthly pagan pet loss grief circles on the third Sunday of each month from noon to 1:30 pm central time. These circles will be a free-will donation offering, and more information can be found on my website. In this episode, I talk about things that I feel are important to pagan pet loss grief and a bit about why I am focusing on this community. For more information about my pagan pet loss grief services, please visit https://feathermanesoul.com/pagan Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the po
Back From Hiatus and a Realignment
4mo ago · 10:54
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 the future including a monthly event I hope to start running next month, but in the meantime, I wanted to post an episode and get back on track. The book mentioned in this week’s show: https://books2read.com/grief Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can sup
Spiritual Spaces Not Meant For Us
6mo ago · 21:00
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 ask questions, our need for clarification, and the fact that we often walk our own roads means that we don’t fit in with “traditional spirituality”. So this episode has me pondering out loud and thinking about what a neurodivergent affirming spiritual space would look like. Have thoughts? I’d love
Reiki, Energy Work, and Mental Health
7mo ago · 22:13
I’ll be honest that I’m rather skeptical of a lot of psychology-related studies that are published. First off, there are those who believe psychology is pathology, when I believe that it connects to all aspects of our being, and a holistic approach is the best approach. But also, I’ve seen how studies can be drafted that come up with exactly the same outcome as what the researchers wished. As someone who has used reiki to benefit my own well-being, including my mental health, I’m also curious about how reiki affects mental health and the studies that have come out in favor of reiki. In this ep
How Your Spiritual Story Impacts Mental Health
8mo ago · 22:58
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 can impact our mental health and what that means for creating our systems of spiritual care. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feathermane Soul to learn about the podcast, see how you can support it and become a guest.
An Attempt to Define Spiritual Story
10mo ago · 25:05
What is a spiritual story? What the heck am I talking about? Spiritual story is something I’ve been thinking about a lot to try and define into something I can share with others who will understand that I’m not talking about religion, and I’m talking about something that intersects with all areas of our lives. Join me in this week’s episode while I discuss my definitions of spiritual story and just how all the different modalities I use tie into the making and modifications of our spiritual story. This is the first of hopefully many shows talking about spiritual storytelling, so if you have th
Serving Yourself From The Spiritual Buffet Table
10mo ago · 22:20
I shamelessly have borrowed the phrase “spiritual buffet table” for this podcast because I don’t know about you, but I love buffets. You can choose what you want depending on your mood, there are a lot of choices, and lets be honest, in the spiritual and religious realms, especially when it comes to our mental health and spiritual stories, not everything works for everyone all the time. We need to find out what works for ourselves, our nervous systems, and our bodies. That’s where the spiritual buffet table comes in to play. So in this episode (the first recorded after our return from hiatus)
Religion is Broken: Distant God vs Embodied God
10mo ago · 21:02
Allow me to geek out just a bit with my religious scholar hat on, but I’ve been thinking about something for a while now and finally, thanks to reading a lot of Sallie McFague for my thesis, am able to do a show on it. And that is the concept of a distant god compared to an embodied god and how that changes your spiritual and/or religious worldview and affects the way you worship and your spiritual stories. This episode looks at the difference between the two, what impacts that might have on one’s belief systems and ways in which they do (or do not) care for the planet, and more importantly th

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