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 offers listeners a rare and honest look into what it feels like to move through the world wired differently, and what becomes possible when we stop chasing normal and start building lives that honor our truth. 

You'll hear:

• How not having a diagnosis and masking shaped her early life
• What ADHD and autism actually looked like for her 
• The grief and liberation of receiving a diagnosis as an adult
• How neurodivergence taught her to redefine healing, rest, and worthiness
• What it means to unmask in real-time, through this podcast and beyond

This episode isn't just a story, it's a reclamation.

And if you've ever felt "just a little off," this one's for you. 

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.

This isn’t a tale of being weird for weird’s sake, this is a homecoming to the truth: that being “different” was never a defect. It was a divine design.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• The early signs of neurodivergence and intuitive sensitivity
• The shift from playful selfhood into masking and self-monitoring
• How school, friendships, and relationships shaped her survival strategies
• What it means to look back with clarity, and name your truth retroactively

If you’ve ever felt like you were too much, too sensitive, too odd, too intuitive, or simply too different to belong…this is for you.

You weren’t meant to be normal. You were meant to be you. Fully, freely, and without apology.

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 neurodivergent, the spiritual misfits, and the healers who are still healing.

This isn’t a self-help podcast. This is a remembering.

Tune in to hear:

• The truth about why “normal” was never the goal
• The difference between performing healing and living it
• What it means to be a full-spectrum human in a binary world

If you’ve ever felt like too much, too different, or too aware...you belong here. Let this be your invitation to rise.

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