I initially stated writing this from the perspective of our family - our own road to unschooling and how that forced me and my husband down a path of deschooling...or maybe it was the other way around?  To make a long story short, I found as a parent that the proces of unlearning all (or at least some) of my schooled behaviour and internalized beliefs has been equally the most arduous but also rewarding part of choosing unschooling as a way of life. That was a very quick summary of what deschooling means for unschoolers. And by unlearning, I also mean there is an equal part of relearning - as that would be part of any change process - rediscovering, re-membering. 

"As I release the need to perform completion or healing, I’m more drawn to the idea of alchemical storytelling. If you have a genetic illness with no cure, a divergent nervous system, a wounded heart, if you can’t undo what happened, how can you recontextualize trauma ? How can you tell a new story about it?" Sophie Strand

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