The Neurodivergent Creative Podcast

How can you set boundaries with yourself (and others) so you don’t take on too much? Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you HAVE TO. In this episode, we’re unpacking what it means to be gifted and talented, from the selection process that identifies gifted students to the idea of your self concept as a gifted child through adulthood, and how to stop focusing so much on high achievement...

Today's episode is an interview with my Facebook community manager, coaching client, Passion Pacer, and long time friend Abi!  Abi is a fellow autistic, neurodiverse spoonie with fibromyalgia, ADHD, and a notebook for everything. So we're talking disability and chronic illness, self worth, and balancing productivity with rest and recovery.  She is a single mom of three... but also kind o...

Today's episode is a long one, but SO AMAZING! I have my sister Jess (they/them) on the show with me and we dig into our childhood experiences, what brought us to the choice of parental estrangement, and the ways we've reconnected with our intuitive, creative selves in the years since.  Trigger warnings: mentions of racism and homophobia, stories about emotional abuse and dissociation, sexual...

What makes you angry? Sad? Scared?  We push "negative" feelings and thoughts away as a result of toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing. Learning to let these emotions happen as long as they need to happen takes getting used to but is so rewarding. You deserve to feel the full spectrum of your human emotions! This episode is all about how to let your anger have the space it needs to show yo...

First, a giveaway announcement! Congratulations to Anne-Marie, winner of our first review giveaway! Head over to the Run Like Hell Toward Happy Community to enter the giveaway and get the chance to win a signed book and free coaching session. The sooner you enter, the better your chances. What is Toxic Positivity? It’s when those good vibes and silver linings are forced upon you when you’re experi...

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - The Buddha  But do we have to forgive in order to heal and move on from harm? I don't think we do.  This episode is all about CHOOSING from a place of EMPOWERMENT whether or not to forgive someone for harm done. Because that's up to you and it's not about them! You can heal and be happy with or withou...

We're back for season two of Run Like Hell Toward Happy! HUGE THANKS to everyone who has listened, subscribed, and left reviews. Remember that there's a giveaway for reviewers in my Facebook group. Join the group for the details!  In this episode we’re going to talk about accountability and followthrough… but also giving yourself grace and knowing when to dial back and work on reducing that h...

In this debut episode we'll dig into what it means to run like hell toward happy, why it's awesome when people ask you to make yourself smaller (hint: it's because those people are letting you know they're not your people), how you can use your intuition to guide you toward your deep-down dream, and an embarrassing story about me in the sixth grade.  Important Links: FREE Burnout Breakthrough...

This episode dives into my own experiences that left me burned out: having to cut off both of my biological parents, losing my stepdad to cancer in an especially traumatic way, leaving an abusive marriage, and giving my notice at a toxic job after a last straw moment. I've always stuck it out and made myself endure harmful situations until I couldn't stand it anymore — until I finally learned how...

CW: Eating disorder, diet culture, weight loss  I love personal development books about business, confidence, motivation, everything — but one thing I hate about them is that they almost always end up making a reference to dieting when they're trying to make a point about consistent habits. When I started recovery from ED I started seeing how pervasive diet culture messages are everywhere. Th...

I love the idea of the Law of Attraction, that you can manifest the things you truly believe are coming to you. It's a beautiful way to develop confidence in yourself and start believing that better things are coming and that you are capable of achieving more. What's NOT cool about the law of attraction is how some people use it to victim blame. Being "low vibe" or not believing in yourself is NOT...

You know deep down what you want out of your life. You can hear the little voice saying "no, not this" even if you don't know what to do about it. My job as a coach is to help you find out what makes the little voice say "yes!" It may seem counterintuitive, but I'm not always pushing my clients to rack up achievements and cross things off their to-do list. First, we work on mindset and self care —...

In this episode we talk about the best ways to access your inner voice or your intuition, including meditation, divination, journaling, and other mindfulness techniques. Often when we let the surface level thoughts on our mind drift away we can follow their threads toward deeper understanding of our needs and desires.  In this episode I talk about Apology Languages; you can find a quiz to fin...

We think setting goals is easy: they should be SMART! Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. But we tend to just focus on time bound and think we're total failures if we don't achieve the goal in the allotted time. Goals are made up! You can adjust them as you go and get data about what you need to achieve them, including more time or changing the measure of your success. In t...

We are all more burned out than we even realize. Let's talk about that! From the mental load of household responsibilities to keeping up with a full time job that may or may not treat you more like a cog than a person, you have a lot going on. This episode will help you balance rest, creativity, and life's responsibilities.  Burnout happens when our outputs (responsibilities, work, kids, bala...

Raise your hand (metaphorically) if you're the type of person who gives up when they don't get something done right on the first try — it's pretty common, and it's from a perfectionistic mindset. We WANT to be good at things, and we see a TON of talented, creative people's work online all day via social media, so we hold ourselves to these standards without realizing that we don't see the years of...

Imposter syndrome is the NUMBER ONE mindset shift I work on with my clients. I work with writers, business owners, and content creators who all worry that their work isn't worth the time and effort because they're never going to be truly good at their craft. Imposter syndrome is that thing that says "Who do you think you are? Why does YOUR voice matter here? Others are doing it better. You don't b...

When you're working on your primary goal, project, or focus, it's inevitable that some new idea comes to mind and distracts you. You have a choice... follow the shiny object down a path of abandoned projects, or stay the course and ignore the promise of the shiny thing. What if there was a middle ground? Make a shiny object list! In this episode I teach you how to honor your brilliant new ideas wi...

Criticism sucks. But we can learn from it and learn to treat it as neutral or even positive with these three questions. One - is it true, and is your interpretation true? Two - is it something you need to change? Three - can you learn from it? Check out this bonus episode for some examples of how to apply these questions to make any criticism constructive. (And which criticism you can safely ignor...

Run Like Hell Toward Happy is launching in May! Stay tuned! In this podcast, you will learn how to tune into your inner voice and work through all the brain bullshit that stops you from going for your dreams. You know, deep down, what you want to do — so we’re going to find the confidence, boundaries, and balance to do it, without hustling. I'm Caitlin Liz Fisher, a motivational writer and coach w...