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Unschooling ConversationsUnschooling Unfiltered: Embracing the Glorious Messy Reality with Essie RichardsIn this episode of Unschooling Conversations Essie Richards talks about the real journey of unschooling beyond the Instagram moments. Embracing the entire spectrum of experiences is key to a successful education approach and leaning into the complex, nuanced journey that includes both beautiful moments and challenging times.Key Highlights:Exploring the authentic challenges and experiences of unschoolingBreaking down the myth of constant joy Navigating neurodivergence and family learningMain Discussion Points:1. The Pressure of PerfectionChallenging the narrative that unschooling must...
2025-06-041h 07
The Unschool Space#78 When unschooling is a healing journey, with Essie Richards in Cornwall, UKIn this episode I'm chatting with Essie Richards from Cornwall in the UK. Essie’s family came to unschooling nine years ago after realising that school was not a place where their childre, who were three and six could thrive. Later, Essie began an Agile Learning Centre for 10 to 15-year olds. Today we talk about the deconditioning we need to go through as parents in order to give our children real agency and how that can work can be deeply healing, what it means to be neurodivergent and unschooling, and all the practices that can help us along the wa...
2025-02-1953 min
Self DirectedEssie Richards | Breaking Free: Unschooling and Reimagining Education in the UKHow can unschooling create a safe and empowering educational path for children? In this episode, we talk with Essie Richards about her transformative journey from traditional schooling to unschooling in rural Cornwall, UK. Essie shares how her family chose this path after her son faced bullying, leading them to embrace self-directed education as a way to foster curiosity, confidence, and emotional well-being.Our conversation delves into the principles of unschooling, focusing on its power to nurture children’s natural interests and foster stronger family connections. Essie discusses the role of respectful parenting in creating a supportive environment wh...
2025-02-061h 01
doyanutangRead [epub] The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Read [epub] The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Read Online The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook The Book of Essie for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://gorengantahuaci.blogspot.com/34503571-the-book-of-essie **Download Book Here ==> https://gorengantahuaci.blogspot.com/34503571-the-book-of-essie Book Synopsis : A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher...
2023-09-0100 min
Making Homeschool Life a Little EasierTransformational CoachingTuning into what you need can sometimes be hard when you are a busy homeschool mum and feel overwhelmed. In this podcast, Essie Richards chats to me about how you can find yourself and enjoy the journey even if you've already lost yourself in the process of motherhood. Tune in and learn how to reclaim your identity and fall in love with the woman you were meant to be. Essie also shares some golden nuggets, ways that you can carve out time for yourself. This enables signals to reach your nervous system and show it that you're as valuable...
2023-04-0737 minMaking Homeschool Life a Little EasierUnschooling Part 3In this video I chat to Essie, this is our third podcast over 5 years, it goes deep into the journey that Essie's family have been on following the unschooling route. Essie shares her heart and soul and talks about feeling free to now live life through joy.Disco Course and Circle Community: https://discolearning.comYouTube channel: Lucy at Life Without School Website: https://lulastic.co.ukInstagram: Lulasticblog FaceBook: Lucy AitkenRead Unschooling Support Akilah S Richards website: http://www.akilahsrichards.comBook: Raising Free People Podcast: Fare of the F...
2021-12-031h 24
RevillagingTrust Yourself – Essie Richards on unschooling“For me, certainly, [unschooling is] about leaning in as far into authenticity as is possible with as big a compassionate heart as is also possible.” – Essie Richards
In this episode Essie Richards talks with Adele Jarrett-Kerr about how deconditioning from religion and deschooling has supported her self-trust. Essie is an unschooling parent of two, an intersectional environmental activist and founder of a project that provides food for people experiencing food poverty. This is a conversation about shame, finding our way of being in the world, how we learn to heal and to deal with conflict, and about meeting our own ne...
2021-02-071h 06
RevillagingTrust Yourself - Essie Richards on unschoolingIn this episode Essie Richards talks with Adele Jarrett-Kerr about how deconditioning from religion and deschooling has supported her self-trust, and changed the way she accesses community. Essie is an unschooling parent of two, an intersectional environmental activist and founder of a project that provides food for people experiencing food poverty. This is a conversation about shame, finding our way of being in the world, how we learn to heal and to deal with conflict, and about meeting our own needs. Essie's story is such a gift, whether or not you're a parent or whatever education path you and...
2021-02-071h 06
The Avid Reader ShowMeghan Weir The Book of EssieGood afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Meghan MacLean Weir, author of The Book of Essie published just last month by Knopf. Meghan’s memoir Between Expectations: Lessons From A Pediatric Residency chronicles her years in training at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. She still works as a physician and continues to write as well. The Book Of Essie is her first novel.Essie is a teenager whose entire life has been documented daily by cameras which record most of her life. Her Father and Mother as w...
2018-07-0236 min
The Avid Reader Show1Q1A Meghan Weir The Book of EssieGood afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Meghan MacLean Weir, author of The Book of Essie published just last month by Knopf. Meghan’s memoir Between Expectations: Lessons From A Pediatric Residency chronicles her years in training at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. She still works as a physician and continues to write as well. The Book Of Essie is her first novel.Essie is a teenager whose entire life has been documented daily by cameras which record most of her life. Her Father and Mother as w...
2018-07-0203 min
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Book of Essie: A novel by Meghan MacLean WeirPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Essie: A novel Author: Meghan MacLean Weir Narrator: Erin Spencer, Robbie Daymond, Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 12, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD 'Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely.'—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, sta...
2018-06-1210 min