Feathermane Soul Wisdom

Religion has become a bad word because of the actions of some groups and individuals. For those who wish to reclaim religion in their lives, it’s important to reenvision what religion looks like. How could we cultivate safety within a religious framework? What would that look like? In this episode, I’m going to talk about reenvisioning religion to include safety in all its facets. Want to learn mo...

Welcome to the first interview on Feathermane Soul Wisdom. I hope to do more interviews and if you’d like to be a guest on the show reach out! About My Guest Lane Smith is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved in struggles against war, the death penalty, attacks on LGBT rights and body autonomy for ma...

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is how religion is broken and so I’ve started a new series here on the podcast. In this first episode of the series, I’m going to talk about what I hope to gain out of this series and the role capitalism plays in breaking religion. I’m curious to hear your thoughts so as always, feel free to leave me a comment. Want to learn more about this show? Visit Feat...

In this episode, probably the first of a few part series, I talk about what it means to rethink our spaces. If we are to move in and through the world as our authentic, embodied selves, then we need to create spaces that allow for this and do so in a way that welcomes everyone to be their own authentic selves. I know this is a deep topic, and one I can’t possibly begin to tackle in 20 minutes, but...

In Wakanda Forever Suri said “I want to burn it all down”, and I felt those words in my bones. In the face of unimaginable loss, grief, and anger it is natural to feel as if you want to “burn it all down”. In this episode I talk about living as an embodied being by acknowledging and validating your emotions, not gaslighting yourself, and how to keep from being burned up when you’re in the throes o...

It can sound cliched to say “be kind” or to talk about kindness, especially in the face of overwhelming oppression, fear, and anger. This podcast isn’t about that. Instead, we look at how we can be kind to ourselves, and how seeing everyone as having human dignity means we can be kind to them too. But we’ll also talk about when kindness isn’t warranted and how to ensure that your kindness isn’t be...

Mid January 2024 the world changed in an instant. And for many communities, it just got a lot more dangerous to be your true, authentic self. Now, we know who we are regardless of what proclamations are signed or what others say about us. But also, I can’t deny it hurts to have such hate levied at you. The question I’m asking this week is: why be authentic right now? For a lot of us, every instinc...

There are three things that have to go hand-in-hand for us to step into our authentic, embodied selves. The first two are authenticity and embodiment. The last one? Nervous system regulation. If we’re stuck in fight or flight mode, then we’re not going to be able to unpack the stories that are keeping us from reclaiming our power and reconnecting with our stories. If we’re stuck in a fawn or freez...

The term autispiritual picks up on the tradition of such words as neuroqueer and autigender where our neurodiversity and/or autism directly impacts our experiences as queer individuals or our experience of our gender. Autispiritual means that our autism impacts our spirituality. To broaden it we can talk about neurospiritual where our neurotype impacts our spirituality. The two often go hand in no...

A lot of people think labels can be bad things, but there are ways in which you can claim labels and use them to create new stories and reclaim your power. This episode covers a lot of territory from labels, the questions you ask when someone labels you (Is it true? What power do they gain or what do they seek to do?) and how to turn those negative labels into positive ones for yourself. We finish...

As we begin our journey together through Feathermane Soul Wisdom, my first full episode discusses what I mean when I talk about living as an embodied being. Remembering that we are “a being” and not “a doing” has been the fodder for a lot of memes online and a lot of pop psychology. And yet, underneath the quips and social media graphics, there is truth. That we are beings. We inhabit a body. And...

Welcome to the official launch of the Feathermane Soul Wisdom podcast. I begin this show by talking about my process, my work, my goals, and what I hope to bring to you. If you’re listening to this there’s a good chance you are neurodivergent, might be queer, and you may experience a chronic illness or disability, or maybe you see yourself in all three groups. I struggled for a long time trying to...