I keep calling it portal work or soul work because it really has nothing to do with education

in the conventional sense and everything to do with learning and unlearning, unraveling,

remembering, connecting, questioning, you know, like the things that are inherent in all

of the ways we learn and engage naturally, like as part of nature that you don't have

to like simulate or call it mathematics, you know, like in order for it to exist, in

order for it to matter, in order for it to be relevant.

Hi friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is

to be human upon the earth.

I am your host Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 75 with Akila Richards.

If the phrase school wounds stirs something inside of you or the words crisis schooling,

describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, or if you've just always

intuited that there's something not quite right about compulsory schooling, this episode

is for you.

So I've been aware of and really fascinated by unschooling and various forms of homeschooling

for about 15 years now, but it wasn't until COVID and really seen the discussions happening

online and mom groups that I got passionate about doing a podcast about this.

So what I keep seeing over and over again is moms really at a breaking point with trying

to navigate distance schooling with their kids.

And what I keep thinking when I'm seeing this is wow, they don't even know that they

don't have to do this.

It hasn't occurred to them that there's an alternative to this system that we've all

bought into.

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