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 dogma. It’s not tied to any religion, nor does it have to be.

Most neurodivergent people I know have spent most of their lives being told how and when to exist in their bodies. Our body schemas come from socio-political-cultural norms that overlay race, gender, sexual identity, disability and the expectations for all of that, on top of us and with the expectation that we conform to them. Unmasking is simply learning a new body schema, and it’s something neurodivergent people strive for every day.

This makes body theology something that we have a vested interest in and something which can help explain our embodied, lived experiences.

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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 ND individuals unmask to prevent burnout, but if they’re also not unpacking our capitalist, neurotypical society, especially here in America, then they’re setting up their clients to simply burnout again…and again…. and again…

I think it’s time the neurodivergent movement has a long think about what we want to do and how we really want to help one another avoid the trauma and stress of trying to conform to a neurotypical society. Indulge me, if you will, some thoughts on the matter.

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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 prevent that from happening. We’ll go through a method to safely unmask and ways to do so.

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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, your pneuma, your qi, your prana–and why this kind of work doesn’t happen overnight and our “quick fix” mentality actually does us a disservice.

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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 to burn out.

This week I’m discussing how the stories we tell ourselves got started and how we can recognize when something is a “story” or a “should do” from other people rather than something stemming from our authentic desires and wishes.

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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 bodies, and how the stories we tell ourselves get in the way of our true, authentic selves, and how stories others tell/give us are the cause of shame.

I’m also trying a little something new with the intro. Let me know if you like it!

Related Links

Review of How To Keep House While Drowning

Blog: Procrastinated Projects and Neurodivergent Shame

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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 overwhelmed. I’ll also discuss what I believe spirituality is. Hint — it’s not religion. And how you can find connection to something outside of, and larger, than yourself through global community, the universe, or even a beloved pet. This isn’t the spirituality you’ve been taught, and it’s designed specifically for those of us with neurodivergence.

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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” burnout (and we all know “regular” is a misnomer, right?), I then talk about how these two experiences are the same and more importantly what is the one key I believe to getting through them.

Join me for a conversation about self-discovery, awareness, acceptance, love, and most of all radical liberation and how that intersects with burnout or the experience of having a dark night of the soul.

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