Essence Rising

In this episode, we explore the deeply regulating, healing, and empowering world of sensory rituals, especially through the lens of neurodivergence. Sensory rituals aren’t just routines, they are acts of self-honoring, nervous system care, and sacred embodiment. Whether you’re autistic, ADHD, chronically ill, highly sensitive, or just navigating a fast-moving world in a sensitive body, these ritua...

What if your body isn’t a problem to solve, but a sacred guide to trust?

In this powerful episode, Chanté explores what it truly means to let the body lead. For those of us who are neurodivergent, chronically ill, trauma survivors, or living in marginalized bodies, reconnecting with the body can feel complicated, but also prof...

In this heartfelt and deeply personal episode, Chante invites you into a conversation that many of us were never taught how to have: one with our own nervous system.

Reclaiming your body isn’t about striving for perfection or finally “getting it right.” It’s about coming home to yourself, gently, slowly, and with love. If you’...

In this deeply grounding episode of Essence Rising, Chanté Anderson unpacks what it truly means to be trauma-informed; beyond buzzwords, checklists, and performative wellness language. Together, we explore how trauma isn't just a story in the mind, but a pattern in the nervous system that lives in the breath, the muscles, the posture, the impulses, and the very rhythm, of daily life. 

Chanté dives into why healing must include the ...

In this soul-deep episode, we're dismantling the harmful myths around burnout and reclaiming the truth about why so many of us are exhausted, not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, and systemically. Burnout is not a personal failure or a sign of weakness. It is a natural response to living in a world that demands too much, values too little, and punishes rest, sensitivity, and humanity.

We explore how systems like capit...

What does it mean to be "high-functioning" and who decided that was the goal?

In this powerful episode, Chante dismantles the harmful cultural narratives around what it means to "function," especially for neurodivergent, sensitive, chronically ill, disables, and trauma-impacted souls. So often, being called "functional" just means you're performing wellness well enough to make others comfortable, even if you're falling apart inside...

How the System Pathogizes Your Power is a soul-deep journey into the heart of radical mental health, neurodivergent liberation, and embodied healing. Hosted by Chante Anderson, a licensed therapist, health coach, somatic practitioner, and unapologetically neurodivergent woman, this podcast is a sanctuary for those who've been mislabeled, misunderstood, and misdiagnosed by systems more interested in control than care. 

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In this deeply honest and expansive episode, Chante shares the untold story behind how she became a therapist, and why that title alone could never contain the depth of her work. 

What began as a practical path through psychology programs, burnout, and trial-by-fire in community mental health evolved into a calling far greater than expected. From behavioral health consulting to her own spiritual awakening during the COVID years, Ch...

In this episode, Chante explores what it means to be both soft and disruptive, to hold tenderness in one hand and sacred fire in the other. Through poetic storytelling and grounded reflection, she reclaims softness as a radical act and unpacks the duality of being a healer and a disruptor, calm yet raging, feminine and masculine, all at once. 

She speaks to the truth that softness is not weakness, it is wisdom. It is nervous system...

In this deeply personal episode, Chante shares her journey of discovering she was neurodivergent and how that realization reshaped everything she believed about healing, identity, and freedom. From self-diagnosing ADHD after years of internalized shame, to finally confronting and accepting her autistic traits, Chante unpacks the grief, the clarity, and the radical self-compassion that comes with unmasking. She ...

In this raw and reflective episode, Chante shares the layered, lived journey of realizing she was never meant to be “normal.” Through stories of her childhood obsession with horses, the early awareness of spiritual sensitivity, and the social complexity of growing up neurodivergent and intuitive, she explores how her uniqueness was pathologized, misunderstood, and eventually reclaimed.

Welcome to Essence Rising: On the Edge of Normal, a podcast for the ones who’ve spent their lives trying to shrink, shift, or silence themselves in order to survive. In this sacred first episode, Chante Anderson shares the truth behind the show’s name, her own journey of unmasking and rising, and why this space was created for the sensitives, the neurod...