How can the book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, inform our homeschool lives?
I’m excited to share how Elizabeth Gilbert infuses our homeschools with Big Magic, helping us to embrace our creative lives.
We want our kids to be self-directed learners, lifelong learners, eager to follow interesting rabbit trails engage their curiosities, and just play their hearts out, but are we truly encouraging them to do that if we’re not doing that ourselves?
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Elizabeth Gilbert infuses our homeschool lives (or could infuse our homeschool lives) with big magic if we embrace creativity & play.
She addresses why we’re not likely to pursue that creativity…
Elizabeth Gilbert tells us, “Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.”
Creativity is just play in disguise. When we’ve been accustomed to living the adult life long enough, we don’t assume that play should be part of our adult lives.
What’s the value of the certain outcome of play and creativity?
Will play clean my kitchen, clean the dog’s bowl, fold the laundry, drive my kids to soccer, or teach the kids how to understand polynomials? If play can’t do that, then girlfriend, I agree, none of us has the time to play!
Sure, we think we should sit on the family room floor and play Legos with our kiddos. We assume we should play games like Bananagrams and Monopoly because they’re educational. And we assume the kids should be playing and obviously, we’re giving them more time to do that when they homeschool.
We don’t assume we should play like this, we don’t assume that this part of our lives is for play, and we certainly haven’t got the time to play anyway.
Our adult selves assume we must have a plan. We must use our time wisely. Our time cannot be wasted. And anyway, if we’re creative, what we create will likely not be any good anyway.
Therefore, what would be the end goal of doing these creative things anyway? Be assured, there are no certain outcomes.
Elizabeth Gilbert says, “Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life”:
You’re afraid you have no talent. You’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored. …Afraid there’s no market for your creativity, and therefore no point in pursuing it. You’re afraid somebody else already did it better. You’re afraid everybody else already did it better. Or that you’re afraid somebody will steal your ideas, so it’s safer to keep them hidden forever in the dark. You’re afraid you won’t be taken seriously. And you’re afraid your work isn’t politically, emotionally, or artistically important enough to change anyone’s life. You’re afraid your dreams are embarrassing. What else might you be afraid of?
You’re afraid that someday you’ll look back on your creative endeavors as having been a giant waste of time, effort, and money. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of discipline. Or you’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of workspace, financial freedom, or empty hours in which to focus on invention or exploration. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of training or degree. Even if you’re afraid you’re too fat. (I don’t know what this has to do with creativity, exactly, but experience has taught me that most of us are afraid we’re too fat, so let’s just put that on the anxiety list, for good measure.) You’re afraid of being exposed as a hack, a fool, a dilettante, or a narcissist. You’re afraid of upsetting your family with what you may reveal. Perhaps you’re afraid of what your peers and coworkers will say if you express your personal truth aloud. Don’t even get me started pm these fears that impede our creativity.
You’re afraid of unleashing your innermost demons, and you really don’t want to encounter your innermost demons. You’re afraid your best work is behind you. You’re afraid you never had any best work, to begin with. Do you fear that you have neglected your creativity for so long that now you can never get it back? You’re afraid you’re too old to start. You’re afraid you’re too young to start. You’re afraid because something went well in your life once, so obviously nothing can ever go well again. Perhaps you’re afraid because nothing has ever gone well in your life, so why bother trying? You’re afraid of being a one-hit-wonder. You’re afraid of being a no-hit wonder.”Yeah, girl, there are a whole bunch of reasons to be afraid.
However, girlfriend, I agree with Elizabeth Gilbert: fear is boring.
IMO a life well-lived is not a life lived in fear. You’ve been given this one life: be anything, but don’t be boring.
Elizabeth Gilbert realized that her fear was boring…you can read about that story in her book or join the Homeschool Mama Book Club this Thursday and we can chat about it. (It’s a virtual Book Club, just $5, and you don’t have to read the book to join.)
Elizabeth Gilbert learned that her fear “wasn’t some kind of rare artisanal object, fear was a mass-produced item, available on the shelves of any generic box store.”
Maybe that’s why I’ve never wanted to own a Costco membership (and also why I love our local grocery co-op where you can find handmade everything from soap to soup, locally grown pea shoots to walnuts, beeswax bowl wraps to essential oils, flanks of steak to organically raised free-range chicken, and handcrafted cheeses to hand-milled oat flour).
Girlfriend, I love me some heart-created, handmade, birthed from creativity everything.
Hear’s what I see that fear does:
Fear keeps us from doing fun stuff,From owning who we really are,Fear keeps us from acknowledging our hard stories.It also keeps us locked into unhealthy relationships wasting our time and energy.Fear keeps us from living a purposeful life.You know what? Fear is boring. Fear is ordinary!
Of course, fear is human, but fear can sometimes disable us from fully living our lives on purpose.
If fear could be reflected in a painting, I imagine you’d see various shades of grey.
Creativity, on the other hand, would be reflected in many of the colours represented on Elizabeth Gilbert’s book cover of Big Magic.
There’s lemon, amber, flaxen; magenta, salmon, rose; emerald, lime, sage; cobalt, Saphire, and azure.
I’d rather live a life of colour than various shades of grey.
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So how do we live and embrace that life of colour when we’re accustomed to various shades of grey?
1. Own who you are.
This can be one of the most challenging things to do if you haven’t done it: own who you are. (But from the other side of having done it, it is one of the easiest things to maintain).
Own who you are: why wouldn’t we do this?
Oh, I dunno: because we weren’t given the space to explore who we are so we just haven’t spent time getting to know ourselves, or because we were too afraid of losing someone’s validation if we didn’t be who we thought they wanted us to be, or because we’ve been too busy doing stuff for others (since we were told it was selfish to own who we are and do anything for ourselves).
Really, though, you are just one person. So, you be you!
I can only represent my version of myself becoming me.
My version of me becoming me required me to embrace my hard stories, to own them, to acknowledge how they impacted me, to be honest about how I was choosing to show up in response to that impact, to recognize how I was self-sabotaging, to own that I liked certain things, that I didn’t like other things, or even that I was indifferent to some things.
These were some of the factors for me becoming more me.
I deeply identify with the lyrics of the Greatest Showman’s song, This is Me:
“I am not a stranger to the dark
Hide away, they say
‘Cause we don’t want your broken parts
I’ve learned to be ashamed of all my scars
Run away, they say
No one’ll love you as you are
But I won’t let them break me down to dust
I know that there’s a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
And I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I’m meant to be, this is me
Look out ’cause here I come
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me.”
Elizabeth Gilbert reminds us, “The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
Girlfriend, if you don’t know who you are or can’t declare it unapologetically, I encourage you to find your voice, stand up, and declare THIS IS ME.
The second thing I’ve learned to embrace a life of colour of Big Magic is to follow your curiosities.
When I was a girl, one of the things I loved to do was design houses. Imagine me, a 12-year-old cutting up a Sears catalog and creating vision boards for each of the rooms in my dream home. I’d sit with a pencil, eraser, and ruler and try to create to-scale blueprints of a home I might one day live in with my four kids and physician husband (yes, I had that plan when I was a girl).
Believe it or not, I still have a copy of one of my earliest designs (interestingly, the bathroom was directly across from the dining room, a design guffaw for certain).
My childhood was filled with designing, creating, and writing.
I might have been designing that home before I was ten years old, sitting on the top bunk of my bunkbed in my sister’s and my 9×11 sleeping space in that brand-spanking new mobile home.
In my first apartment, I was content decorating my 900 sq ft space with cheap Impressionist prints that I found at the local hardware store for $10 each. I imagined this 2 bedroom apartment would likely be as luxurious a space as I might live in my adult life since I intended to be a registered nurse overseeing a Romanian orphanage (my contingency plan if I were 40 years old without kids), or I would be managing a clinic outpost in the Arctic to pay off my student loans, or I’d be paying them off faster if I could nurse at a Saudi hospital compound, or working in administration at an NGO supply center in Somalia.
(All plans I had on paper before I graduated from nursing school).
So you can imagine that I didn’t expect I would actually design my dream home one day.
The second time I had that opportunity, I created and designed a home and a homestead built on raw land. It’s also where I live today.
Would you believe it? The very first time I stepped on that land with my four children and the realtor (without my husband, a physician, was at work), I knew that this land would be my home.
So many days I’d sit on the edge of an outcrop, dangle my toes toward the river, and imagine where the windows would be situated in my home and where the doors would be so I could walk out to feed the chickens and the goats in the morning or grab a cut of chives for dinner or sprigs of mint for tea.
If you were to walk my land with me, you’d see a whole bunch of Douglas fir, larch, and giant cedar because I live in the western region of the Kootenay Mountains in southern British Columbia.
A hundred feet below is a blue-green river, placid most of the day, reflecting the mountainous carpet of trees and an occasional CP Rail train chugging past.
Slightly moving ripples on the river move toward the canal a mile downstream. When the canal locks are opened, the water rises or falls quickly and dangerously.
To the west, just a hundred feet from our embankment is an island. It was once named Pig Island (because someone once corralled pigs there). I wonder what it was called when a century ago, an indigenous tribe would boat here to catch salmon every late summer.
Salmon has since been diverted by the canal and I learned much later that the indigenous tribe who summered on the island would not travel to where our home was as they deemed this sacred ground.
There is indeed something unusually peaceful about this place.
When we were building our home, the kids and I made camp on that island.
Fitted with a boat landing area, fire pit, and mature Douglas fir protecting its eastern edge, it is ideal for human use (though rarely anyone uses it).
Canadian geese families inhabit this island from spring to fall so we let them and their young be during that season. Bald eagle families inhabit the high ledges of those 200-foot trees all year long.
We are a cornucopia of Canadiana over here in the Kootenay Mountains (say that 5 times fast).
Numerous times we have canoed to the island to splash in the icy cove, our bodies burning as we swam over in life jackets and floaties, even in July. One Easter, I planted our kids’ Easter Egg hunt treasure on that island. Every summer, my husband and I canoe over to pick saskatoons for my favourite coconut saskatoon tarts.
But before our home was built on our raw land, I followed my curiosities and regularly sat on a ledge with my folding lawn chair propped up by shards of granite.
Scattered dry tree limbs and mossy, pine needles tangled with my dangling feet. To the west, below that outcropping, we built an outdoor kitchen: a roughly hewn fire pit. We pulled out rocks and trees roots and soil, layered sand and rocks, and created a grill (which we continue to use long after our home was built and comes in very handy when the electricity goes out, which it does, with all too frequent regularity).
On the only leveled spot of our three acres, we built our home.
Not in the pioneer, log cabin Laura Ingalls way. Neither of us could work a hammer before we built this homestead. (Almost a decade later, we can now maneuver all sorts of tools).
Rather, we hired a design firm, so they could properly design and build our one-and-a-half-story home (the bathroom and kitchen on opposite sides of the house, in case you were wondering).
I built and designed the house, and the homestead and this place reflects my soul.
Though I’m fully aware that not everyone has the opportunity to do this form of creative design (I certainly didn’t think I would have been able to either), as I share my story of bringing a childhood dream to adult life come true, you might be reminded of an audacious dream.
What is that dream and what is that curiosity you want to follow?
Naturally, I’ve got a theme song to inspire you toward that too: I give you the song A Million Dreams:
I close my eyes and I can see
The world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
Or that I’ve lost my mind
I don’t care, I don’t care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
‘Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
Oh a million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
There’s a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds
I don’t care, I don’t care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
Oh a million dreams for the world we’re gonna make.”
Dream your dreams, homeschool mama, and follow your curiosities just as you’re encouraging your kids’ curiosities.
3. The third thing I’ve learned in order to embrace a life of colour, of Big Magic, is to pursue adventure.
When we choose a homeschool life, we quickly learn we need to unlearn (or deschool) a lot of notions about what an education is anyway, to deschool our notions of how an education gets created for our kids, we also get progressively clearer on our true values, (these values become more aligned with our daily activities), and we discover that we can live a life of adventure, adventure for our kids and ourselves.
And adventure always fuels Big Magic in our lives.
Remember how I imagined I had plans to work as an RN in the far north or a Saudi hospital compound? I told you about my dream of working in a Romanian orphanage or working at an NGO in Mogadishu, Somalia.
How could I pursue those things if I was a homeschool mom?
(Side note and super cool story rabbit trail, the NGO I was contracted to work with in Mogadishu, Somalia, pulled their ex-pats just weeks after the military coup that inspired the movie Black Hawk Down, so though I was contracted to go, I didn’t go…and that adventure would definitely not be one I’d aspire to bring my homeschool family).
Well, our homeschool family chose to do a whole lot of traveling during seven of our homeschool years. One of our biggest adventures was to travel to rural Kenya where my husband would share his time and expertise in a mission hospital.
I had decided before we left Canada not to bring the kids’ studies on our two-month trip, ten time zones away because I knew that we had an educational adventure awaiting us in the cross-culture.
It was an immersion in the language, the food, the social faux pas, and people’s stories. We had a guest speaker every time we talked to someone. The Kenyans introduced us to chapatis, chai tea, cabbage, and beans.
Kenyan folk introduced us to shaking hands warmly with strangers and acknowledging every child.
They introduced us to sharing, even when there was almost no food in their straw hut kitchens.They taught us to slow down, see that more is not more, and appreciate what we already have.And they taught us that no matter where we live in this big wide world, families value similar things, no matter where and when we’re born.Homeschooling while traveling gave our children adventures they could never have had in Canada.
Only in rural Kenya could our children spend a day with dad on daily rounds in pediatrics and the male medical ward.
One day, they all took turns putting on adult scrubs and masks and headed to the operating room.
Daddy could show them what he does for patients when he works in the OR: intubations, IVs, and anesthetics. Our kiddos watched their first surgeries up close and personal: a thyroidectomy, an exploratory laparotomy, open abdominal surgery, and orthopedic repairs.
The sprawling intestines weren’t a hit.
Road safety became an adventure.
The surroundings were hilly, seasonally green, and ripe for ankle sprains. Tan-brown muck stained our clothes and shoes.
But no matter what puddle we stepped through, or wild chickens we climbed over, the motorcycles on this continent demanded immediate attention: get off the road.
Our family learned about food availability and scarcity.
Most Kenyans can tell you what they ate in their childhood. Westerners could not document everything we ate in our childhood.
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The daily menu plan of a well-fed rural Kenyan, we were told, was:
chai and sweet bread for breakfast,beans, cabbage, ugali (maize porridge), and collard greens for lunch,and if you were lucky, sheep stew for dinner.Even for those of us with means, the grocery store was still a rough, and I mean physically rough, three-hour ride in our uber-ambulance away. It was a treat to have a bag of carrots or apples.
Though unaccustomed, and not so curious to make new friends with new foods, we all tried many new foods, because we were hungry. We learned to be more thankful for our food, even if it was beans, again.
One afternoon, our four kids, aged three to eleven, and our guide, Agnes, went on a field trip. A field trip adventure to school.
We took a Toyota-sized taxi, along with four other strangers, to an even tinier village twenty minutes away. We then walked for fifteen minutes, past woven maize silos, shambas (family farms), wandering cows and sheep, and children of all sizes.
In the mountain town of Kapsowar, we watched uniformed primary kids walk an hour for their seven a.m. school start, five-year-old children piggyback their baby siblings, and non-schooled kids gather firewood and water for the entire day.
Learning to read and attend high school was a privilege, not a right, for most children.
It was an honour to don a crisp white shirt, plaid vest, and skirt and then head to school.
We stopped at the only private school in the area, started three years prior by the village chief’s wife.
The principal eagerly welcomed us, without an appointment, serving us Fanta sodas. He asked me about the education system of the west and how he could improve his tiny school. Irony? I, a homeschool mama, was both representing the WEST and also the education system.
In that conversation, I came to understand that the only way, in his opinion, to enable health and security for families of poverty, to which there were many more than I was accustomed in my part of the world, was for a child could test themselves into a good school (a strict educational caste-system, of sorts, or so he described, was in place to be accepted in vocational or academic post-secondary schools).
I realized, in the principal’s office of a rural Kenyan village school, with orange Fanta soda in my hand, a toddler sitting on my lap, and three other kiddos standing beside me, what a privilege it was to homeschool our children.
Our trip to this new-to-me world revealed that an education adventure could be found in the cross-culture without books tests and grades.
It turns out, we could incorporate Big Magic through travel adventures as a homeschool family.
We could live a life of Big Magical adventure by living this homeschool life.
I’ve learned that we can live our big magical lives when we embrace and own who we are, follow our curiosities, and live our adventures.
So I encourage you, through the words of Elizabeth Gilbert, “Do whatever brings you to life. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”
Just as we affirm our children in what they were meant to do and who they were meant to be, I also affirm and acknowledge you: you need to become who you are meant to be and do what you were meant to do.
I must be who I am and do the things I was meant to do.
You’ve listened to my stories. What comes up for you?
What’s on your list of big magical adventures?So what have you learned about yourself?What would you like to include in your life?And what would you like to exclude from your life?What are your priorities and your values?And WHO are YOU?It would be fitting that I close this episode with a song.
(You can find the link on the show notes on my website).
The song is written and sung by Martina McBridge, Anyway.
“You can spend your whole life building
Something from nothin’
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway
You can chase a dream that seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway
You can pour your soul out singing a song you believe in
That tomorrow they’ll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah, sing it anyway
I sing, I dream
I love
Anyway”–Martina McBride
As Rumi so eloquently said, “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.”
–Rumi
Elizabeth Gilbert shares in her book, Big Magic, “A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”
So, in conclusion, I ask you this question (or Elizabeth Gilbert asks you this question), “…the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the hidden treasures within you?”
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Why you Don’t Need a Perfectly Decluttered Homeschool (and How a Little Decluttering Can Bring Big Calm)
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The Heart Of Homeschooling: Essential Lessons From Two Experienced Moms
October 22, 2024
The Helpful Homeschool Mom’s Guide To Intentional Living
October 15, 2024
Need Change in Life? Discover Balance as a Homeschool Mom
October 8, 2024
7 Remarkable Lessons from a Weekend Away: Homeschool Realities
October 1, 2024
Rethinking Homeschooling: It’s About the Child, Not the Method
September 23, 2024
Discover Your Unique Voice: Beyond your Homeschool Mama Identity
September 17, 2024
Homeschool with Integrity: How to Stay True to Your Values
September 10, 2024
15 Fun Activities for First Day of Homeschool Party
September 3, 2024
Finding Her True Self: From Anxious to Authentic Homeschool Life
August 26, 2024
7 Easy Ways to Incorporate Writing into Your Homeschool Mom Life
August 21, 2024
The Joy of Slow: Homeschool & Wellness with Leslie Martino
August 13, 2024
Why I Homeschool, Unexpected Challenges & My Transformation
August 3, 2024
John Holt & Pat Farenga Teach Homeschoolers How to Learn
July 29, 2024
Empowering words for your new homeschool year
July 22, 2024
Crush 1st-Year Homeschool Frustrations and Plan a Smooth Year 2
July 17, 2024
9 Steps to Thrive: Confident Homeschool Mom in Year 1
July 11, 2024
Can I Homeschool in Canada? Your Ultimate Guide to Support & Resources
July 2, 2024
Dive into 10 Helpful Books for Homeschooling Moms!
June 17, 2024
7 Important Reasons for Project-Based Homeschooling
June 10, 2024
The Ultimate Homeschool Burnout Prevention Plan
June 3, 2024
“Should I Homeschool My Child?” Here’s What You Need to Know
May 31, 2024
5 Reasons Why Self-Care is Essential for Homeschool Moms
May 27, 2024
Own Your Learning, Own Your Life with Stephanie Sewell
May 21, 2024
Customized Homeschool Help for Parents that Can Transform your Life
May 14, 2024
Get Started Homeschooling in 2024: A Guide for a Successful & Satisfying Journey!
May 7, 2024
Unraveling the Art of Learning with Andrew Pudewa
April 30, 2024
Counseling 101: a Homeschool Parent’s Most Important Skill
April 22, 2024
How Can You Live a Charged Homeschool Mom Life?
April 15, 2024
how to become more you as a homeschool mama
April 9, 2024
An Energizing Homeschool Mom Retreat for your Heart
April 2, 2024
Becoming Authentically You with Britt Acciavatti
March 26, 2024
how to deal with homeschool mama guilt (in no easy steps)
March 18, 2024
16 Practical Self-Compassion Tools to Help for Homeschool Moms
March 12, 2024
How to homeschool without losing your mind in 11 Steps
March 4, 2024
10 Declutter Tips for Homeschool Moms with Simple by Emmy
February 27, 2024
Self-Care & Deschooling: Is there a Helpful Connection?
February 21, 2024
Crack the Loneliness Code: How to Find Homeschool Community
February 12, 2024
how to deschool 101: Embrace Freedom and Individualization
February 5, 2024
Breaking Free: How Deschooling Helps You Live a Purposeful Life
January 30, 2024
The Readaloud Revival Podcast: A Homeschool Mom’s Vision That Sparked a Literary Movement
January 23, 2024
How to Develop Boundaries in your Homeschool Life
January 16, 2024
Find a Vision for your Homeschool Family in the 2024 New Year
January 9, 2024
Join the 2024 Homeschool Challenge for Clarity, Confidence & Vision
December 21, 2023
Tis the Season: 10 Steps to Simplify Homeschool Christmas
December 12, 2023
Encouragement for Homeschool Moms in the 1st Year
December 4, 2023
50 ways I nurture myself as a homeschool mama
November 28, 2023
A Homeschool Mom Podcast for Boundary Breakthrough
November 21, 2023
Healing the Mother Wound for Homeschool Moms
November 14, 2023
A Candid Conversation with Unschooler at Virtual Kitchen Table
November 7, 2023
13 Ways Taylor Swift can Inspire your Homeschool Life
October 24, 2023
Grow Yourself Up: A Guide for Homeschool Mom Personal Growth
October 16, 2023
Nurture Resilience & Big Emotions with Lindsey Casselman of Schoolio Learning
October 10, 2023
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It’s Right
October 3, 2023
6 Hidden Challenges of the Homeschool: Support for Parents
September 26, 2023
Unshackle Homeschool Mom Frustration: Unleash for Growth in 5 Ways
September 19, 2023
5 Creative Ways to Design a Homeschool Mom Personal Vision
September 11, 2023
6 Game-Changing Ways to Streamline your Homeschool Routines
September 5, 2023
Child-Led Learning Benefits Your Kids (& You) Will Love
August 28, 2023
Crafting a Simple Homeschool Vision Statement with Your Family Values
August 24, 2023
How to Plan for Your Homeschool if You Don’t Want to Continue
August 14, 2023
Unique Homeschool Help to Reimagine your Homeschool
August 8, 2023
6 Fresh Ideas on How to Homeschool Plan
August 1, 2023
How to Plan Homeschool: What I Want My Kids To Know
July 25, 2023
Why you Might Want to Incorporate a Project-Based Homeschool
July 18, 2023
What It’s Like: Homeschool to High School Transition
July 11, 2023
How to Do Kindergarten in Your Homeschool: A Fun & Effective Guide
June 27, 2023
Navigate the 2nd-5th Homeschool Years: Challenges and Insights
June 22, 2023
Can I Homeschool My Child? 9 Simple Steps to Confidently Start the Journey
June 20, 2023
How to Reimagine Your Homeschool Support: 7 Essential Lessons
June 12, 2023
Teach Your Own: Homeschool Confidently Without Being a Certified Teacher
June 6, 2023
Raising Wildflower Kids: Embrace an Authentic & Customized Homeschool
June 2, 2023
Homeschool with Purpose: Honouring our Values & Priorities
May 25, 2023
Planning for Your Upcoming Homeschool in 11 Important Steps
May 23, 2023
What should success look like in our homeschools?
May 18, 2023
Reimagine Homeschool: Nine Simple Steps to Plan for Confidence & Clarity
May 16, 2023
6 ways to live your homeschool life on purpose
April 23, 2023
7 Ways to Live your Best Life: Self-Care for Homeschool Moms
April 17, 2023
A 2023 High School Graduate’s Thoughts on her Homeschool Life
April 11, 2023
How to Use Internal Family Systems for Homeschool Moms
April 3, 2023
How to Help your Kids Read with Confidence
March 22, 2023
How to Show Up for You (& your Kids) as you are a Working Homeschool Mom with Charlotte Jones
March 13, 2023
How to Celebrate Diversity & Kinship with Amber O’Neal Johnston
March 6, 2023
How to Encourage Happiness in Our Homeschools?
March 3, 2023
How Marie Forleo Informs my Homeschool (& makes it figureoutable)
February 20, 2023
John Taylor Gatto Informs your Homeschool in 7 Freedom-Loving Ways
February 13, 2023
How Rachel Gathercole Clarifies Concerns on the Homeschool Socialization Question
February 6, 2023
A Journey of Self-Nurturing for the Homeschool Mama’s Heart
January 30, 2023
How Elizabeth Gilbert infuses our Homeschools with Big Magic
January 24, 2023
5 Ways We Can Include Self-Compassion for Homeschool Moms
January 17, 2023
How Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart Influences our Homeschools
January 10, 2023
Homeschool Help Podcast for Your (Real) Homeschool Mom Life
January 3, 2023
Tackling Homeschool Mom Overwhelm in the Homeschool Mom Podcast
December 12, 2022
How Charlotte Mason Can Help you Change & Grow with Modern Miss Mason
November 28, 2022
how to build and create community as a homeschool mom
November 16, 2022
Journaling for the Homeschool Mom to Overcome Overwhelm
November 7, 2022
Intuitively Grow your Fearless Homeschool Flow with Vanessa Wright
October 31, 2022
The Art of Talking with our Homeschool Children
October 17, 2022
More than Enough: How Kara S. Anderson Informs my Homeschool
October 11, 2022
Making our Homeschool A Little More Beautiful with Sarah Mackenzie Readaloud Revival Podcast
October 5, 2022
Understanding the Enneagram for Homeschoolers
September 19, 2022
Are you homeschooling good enough?
September 14, 2022
Unleash Homeschool Potential: Embrace Flexibility & Growth with Aimee Otto
September 5, 2022
Time Audit to Address Unrealistic Expectations in your Homeschool
August 31, 2022
How to manage unrealistic expectations in our homeschool
August 19, 2022
Growth Mindset for Homeschoolers with Jenny Mouse
August 12, 2022
How to Handle Homeschool Overwhelm
August 2, 2022
Supporting the Overwhelmed Homeschool Mama on the Podcast
July 25, 2022
when you buy new homeschool curriculum: 5 clever suggestions
July 5, 2022
why kids don’t need school socialization & why they need you instead
June 28, 2022
why homeschool your child? 8 reasons my family homeschools
June 20, 2022
How to Facilitate Child-Led Learning in your Homeschool
June 14, 2022
curiosity and education: how to facilitate it
June 8, 2022
What about gaps in my child’s home education?
June 2, 2022
the surprising transition from school to homeschool
May 24, 2022
A Beginner’s Guide to Your First Year of Homeschool
May 17, 2022
A Homeschool Mama Will Benefit from Coaching for Homeschool (& Life)
April 20, 2022
How to Deal with our Stuff so We Can Help our Kids with Jenn Dean
April 11, 2022
Homeschool Mama Big Emotions Toolbox Part 3
April 5, 2022
Confidently Homeschool Differently-Wired Kids with Colleen Kessler
March 28, 2022
Deal with Your Homeschool Mom’s Big Emotions: Taming Thoughts
March 23, 2022
Overcoming Frustrations with Jennifer Bryant, Practical Family Podcast
March 14, 2022
Homeschool Mama’s Big Emotions & How to Address Them
March 8, 2022
Bust Confusing Homeschool Myths with Alison Morrow
February 28, 2022
How Listening to our Trauma Stories can Enable our Homeschool Families with Norm Quantz
February 14, 2022
How to Love Myself as a Homeschool Mama
February 8, 2022
Why Homeschool High School is Better with Mary Hanna Wilson
January 31, 2022
Homeschooling in a Pandemic: 14 Approaches to Address Overwhelm
January 27, 2022
How Gordon Neufeld Informs my Homeschool
January 19, 2022
How to Deschool with Kelly Edwards from 90-Minute Day
January 18, 2022
A Meaningful Step-by-Step Guide to Plan your Homeschool Year
January 4, 2022
how to naturally care while homeschooling special needs with Julie Polanco
December 7, 2021
Manage Impatience in your Homeschool: 14 Strategies to Freedom
December 1, 2021
4 ways essential oils contribute to homeschools with Kristin Mercer
November 24, 2021
A Parent’s Guide to Raising Critical Thinkers with Julie Bogart
November 9, 2021
the truth behind homeschool socialization: 10 secrets that surprise
November 3, 2021
Freedoms of Self-Directed Education with Robyn Robertson
October 26, 2021
Should you be a homeschool mom: how do you know you’ve got what it takes?
October 12, 2021
How to Address Your Big Emotions with Christine Dixon
October 12, 2021
How to Keep Sane as a Homeschool Mom: 5 Simple Principles
October 5, 2021
How to Address Worry & Overthinking for the Homeschool Mama
September 28, 2021
how to live your simple homeschool life on purpose
September 22, 2021
How to Maintain Authenticity in our Homeschool with Betsy Jenkins
September 14, 2021
a Letter to My Homeschool High School Daughter
September 8, 2021
3 Things You Need to Know Before You Homeschool
August 24, 2021
How to Plan for your Upcoming Homeschool
August 18, 2021
The Not So Big Life with Sarah Susanka
June 29, 2021
Homeschool Teens Perspective: How to Homeschool High School
June 23, 2021
a Perspective Shift on the Art and Science of an Education
June 21, 2021
A Homeschool Dad’s Thoughts on How to Homeschool
June 14, 2021
How Homeschooling Requires us to Face our Shortcomings
June 11, 2021
How to Be Conscious in Your Homeschool with Erica Kesilman
June 8, 2021
How to Marie Kondo your Homeschool
June 7, 2021
Grow your Confidence & Banish Burnout with Kara S. Anderson
June 1, 2021
How to Journal to Process Stress, Anxiety & Trauma with Nicolle Nattrass
May 25, 2021
How to Use Nonviolent Communication in our Homeschools
May 18, 2021
How to Survive the Pandemic when you Homeschool
May 3, 2021
How to Deal with our Traumas as Homeschool Parents
April 28, 2021
How to Tackle Unhealthy Habits for the Homeschool Mom
April 20, 2021
A Love of Learning, Despite Challenges with Diane Geerlinks
April 13, 2021
How to Care for Mama’s Six Selves with the Homeschool Genius
April 7, 2021
How to Influence Your Homeschool with Self-Awareness
March 31, 2021
How to Be a Stay-At-Home Mom & Stay Inspired with the Kids
March 22, 2021
How to Create a Simple Homeschool Routine with Kelly Briggs
March 15, 2021
Incorporate your Interests in your Homeschool with Kimberly Charron
February 9, 2021
Let’s Chat with Vicki Tillman of Homeschool High School Podcast
February 2, 2021
Thriving, not just Surviving Homeschooling after Pregnancy
January 26, 2021
How to Incorporate Ten Self-Care Tips for Homeschool Moms
January 18, 2021
How to Create a Fresh Start to Unhappy Homeschool Days
January 12, 2021
A Proactive Guide for Planning Your Homeschool in the New Year
December 29, 2020
Introducing the 12 Day Self-Care Strategies for Homeschool Moms
December 8, 2020
7 Effective Tools to Build Boundaries (& Why You Require Them)
December 3, 2020
How to successfully balance working while homeschooling
December 1, 2020
Building Boundaries and Requiring Time Outs with Stacy Wilson
November 25, 2020
How to Address Doubt in your Homeschool Choice with Confidence
November 17, 2020
How to Develop Self-Confidence as a Homeschool Mom with Sarah Gorner
November 11, 2020
Encouraging Words for Homeschool Mom
October 28, 2020
Building Connection with Tamara Strijack of the Neufeld Institute
October 14, 2020
How to Homeschool & Find Your Thing with Julie Bogart
October 7, 2020
How to Help Homeschool Mom when she’s Frustrated
September 30, 2020
How to Deal with Anger in Your Homeschool with Judy Arnall
September 23, 2020
How to Get Quiet Time as a Homeschool Mom with Rachel Le
September 16, 2020
How to Homeschool During a Crisis with Lynda Puleio
September 9, 2020
How to Work from home While Homeschooling with Meaghan Jackson
September 2, 2020
Debunking the Myth of Balance with the Canadian Homeschooler
August 26, 2020
7 Things to Structure a Grade 1 Homeschool Curriculum
August 19, 2020
Self-Care from 30 Years of Homeschooling with Bonnie Landry
August 12, 2020
Creating Learning Opportunities, not Recreating School Subjects
August 5, 2020
How to Do Unschooling with Robyn Robertson
July 29, 2020
If You’re Planning for your Homeschool Year: 10 Lessons in 10 Years
July 22, 2020
How to Homeschool as a Single Mom with with Sarah Wall
July 15, 2020
A Day in the Life of Homeschooling: 18 Years with my Kids
July 6, 2020
Unveil Education Insights: Your Guide to Homeschooling Success
July 2, 2020
What about homeschool socialization?
June 22, 2020
Exploring Your Identity with Pat Fenner
June 18, 2020
Homeschool Mama, Are you Living a Life Worth Living?
April 14, 2020
How Changing your Perspective Shifts your Homeschool with Sarah Scott
April 6, 2020
Homeschooling Little Kids & Taking Care of Yourself with Isis Loran
March 4, 2020
Welcome to the Homeschool Mama Self-Care Podcast (& Why I Homeschool)
February 19, 2020
The Mistake of Multitasking in our Homeschools: 5 Tips to Be More Present
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