Connecting to Your Autistic Blueprint of Health
I love being autistic and sometimes being autistic in an ableist and neurotypical world can be really hard. Sometimes it’s just exhausting dealing with daily sensory trauma or dealing with autistic burnout or even experiencing stigma and ableism. Which is why I make sure that I spend time connecting to my Autistic Blueprint of Health and I guide my clients to connect to their Autistic Blueprint of Health as well.
I first learned about the Blueprint of Health when I was studying with Rachael Maddox who is my beloved trauma resolution teacher and mentor. The Blueprint of Health lives below the nervous system, it’s a design for physiological wellness with divine intelligence. It’s that part of you that knows when to bleed when you get cut, then scab and heal. The beautiful part of the Blueprint of Health is that it's organic wisdom is unbreakable and always available to you. However, sometimes it can get stuck buried beneath things like trauma, oppression and things like ableism.
Everything has a blueprint of health. You could connect to the Collective Blueprint of Health of specific communities-such as the queer community. But you can also connect to a specific blueprint of health, such as your Autistic Blueprint of Health.
When you connect to your Autistic Blueprint of Health you tap into your deep autistic wisdom, in your wise body that knows and seeks to protect you when life gets overwhelming, it’s tapping into your autistic joy, pleasure and health. In a world that often can feel unsafe to our sensitive nervous systems, connecting to our Autistic Blueprint of Health is a way to ground ourselves in our autistic wholeness, steadiness and innate health.
In a world where we often realize we’re autistic because we’re sinking in life, where we experiences sensory trauma on a regular basis or where in order to get professionally diagnosed we have to make a list of our deficiencies-it can be so healing to remind ourselves of our Autistic Blueprint of Health. When I tap into my Autistic Blueprint of Health I sometimes like to place a hand over my heart and just focus on feeling it. I admit that my visual brain sometimes likes to imagine blueprints (almost like blueprints when you build a house!) all throughout my body. I sometimes like to even imagine what my Autistic Blueprint of Health would want to tell me. It might say things like:
It’s okay to have a meltdown.
How you responded to that noise makes so much sense.
You are responding exactly right-according to your autistic self.
Your autistic joy is so beautiful.
I’m so proud of you when you advocate for yourself.
Perhaps try connecting to your Autistic Blueprint of Health and listen to what it might tell you? Or perhaps even how it feels to connect to it? I sometimes like to guide clients in amplifying it-even if it’s just by 2%-how might that feel?
Thank you for reading!
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I hope this blog post was helpful in your own autistic healing journey. I truly believe that us late diagnosed autistics deserve autistic affirming healing and I hope you have the best practitioners, tools and support for your own healing.
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Three (75 minute) sessions a month.
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Tiffany Landry is a queer autistic coach and trauma resolution practitioner. She works with queer and autistic clients in her program The Autistic Mentorship. Tiffany also writes a newsletter on Substack called The Queer Autistic Newsletter.