A podcast for sensitive, neurodivergent, and overstimulated humans who are tired of blaming themselves for systems that don’t work.
Design Your Life to Fit Your Mind
Design
Your Life
to Fit
Your Mind
Writing, conversations,
and tools about clarity, overwhelm, and designing
a life that fits how your
mind actually works.
Design Your Life to Fit Your Mind is a podcast about stopping self-blame and learning to design life from the root.
Hosted by Lindsey Blakely, an information designer and neurodivergent creative, each episode offers calm, grounded reflections on attention, overwhelm, and nervous-system safety. Rather than pushing productivity or offering surface-level fixes, this podcast helps you trace tension back to its source—and redesign your life in ways that actually fit how your mind works.
This is not a podcast about becoming better at coping.
It’s about building systems that don’t require constant coping in the first place.
New episodes are released weekly.
What you’ll find here
This is a space
for people whose minds don’t always fit the systems around them.
Each episode explores what happens when you stop asking “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking “What is this system asking my nervous system to do?”
We talk about:
Why overwhelm is often structural, not personal
How attention, environment, and energy interact
What nervous-system safety actually looks like in daily life
How to recognize tension as information—not failure
Designing rhythms, spaces, and expectations that reduce friction at the root
Episodes are intentionally paced and reflective.
There’s no hype, no hustle language, and no pressure to optimize yourself.
You feel overstimulated or overloaded in everyday life
Traditional productivity systems have never quite worked for you
You’re neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or simply wired differently
You’re tired of self-blame and looking for structural clarity instead
You want understanding, language, and frameworks—not motivation
You don’t need to fix yourself to belong here.
This podcast is for you if:
Choose the platform that feels easiest.
Listen to the podcast
Not sure where
to begin?
Start with Episode 1. It introduces the core idea behind the podcast: why tension shows up, what it’s communicating, and how designing from the root changes everything.
From there, you can follow episodes in order or choose what feels most relevant right now. There’s no required path.
Prefer something written?
If reading feels more supportive than listening, you can download the free Life Design Starter Guide.
It’s a quiet starting point for understanding how your attention, energy, and environment interact—and where small structural changes can make life feel more spacious.