You Matter Too! - Tending to Ourselves

REPLAY 

It can be easy to fall into the idea that you are the last priority, and that your needs come after everyone else's. But, as a parent, your happiness is central to your children's experience, and even more so when you are unschooling. We discussed how we can tend to ourselves and why that's so vitally important.

GUESTS:

AMANDA DIEKMAN is a late diagnosed autistic adult, parent coach, and author in the neurodiversity space. Amanda became a leading voice in the movement for low demand parenting practices, with her book Low Demand Parenting, published July 2023. Amanda runs a successful coaching practice for parents of neurodivergent children, offering a variety of online courses. She is the host of Low Demand Parenting podcast. She lives with her husband and three neurodivergent children in an intentional community in Durham, NC. Amanda holds two degrees from Duke University, including a Masters in Theology. Amanda's website: https://www.amandadiekman.com/

CHEMAY MORALES-JAMES is an intuitive facilitator, embodied learning designer, ancestral guide, and steward of sacred land in Borikén (Puerto Rico). Chemay founded My Reflection Matters Village, a global unschooling and healing community serving over 1,000 members. There, she integrated self-directed learning, intuitive facilitation, and embodied liberation practices. Today, her work centers on land-based healing, ancestral reconnection, and supporting change-makers and visionaries in cultivating inner coherence as the foundation for meaningful, sustainable transformation.

Chemay's Patreon (where she writes): https://www.patreon.com/cw/casatortuga

Chemay's website: https://casatortuga.casa/

HOSTS:

ESTHER JONES is a mindfulness teacher, deschooling coach and mother of three unschooled children. She is the Co-Founder of The Unschooling Summit, author of The Parent's Handbook to Unschooling Yourself and host of The Unschool Space podcast, in which she explores unschooling with other unschooling parents.

Esther's website: www.esther-jones.com

MELISSA CROCKETT-JOYOUE is a Māori, AuDHD mama of two unschooled neurodivergent children. She is the Co-Founder of The Unschooling Summit and the Founder of Weave ND, an online membership community supporting neurodivergent unschooling families with a focus on capacity building and connection for the parents.   

Melissa's membership community: https://weave-community.mn.co/