Ep 5: Discovering the Price of Assimilation with Tiffany

This is a continuation of Episode 4, and if you listened to it, then you know you’re in for a thrill!   Tiffany tells us about how being a risk taker has kept her off the ‘safe’ path and let’s her live life on her own terms, even if it means falling on her face! Now that her daughter is 23 and living independently, Tiffany affirms that unschooling really works, and her daughter is how she is witnessing that.   We also talk about parenting from the perspective of how she was raised and learning to parent in a way that allows children to just be and to experience life knowing they are loved unconditionally. Tiffany goes deep about the relationship she has with her eldest and how that has informed her pivot with her other two children. There were references to how Tiffany lays out things in her ‘creative’ mind with laser focus and her children support her despite not agreeing. The shift of power in the relationships between them is empowering.  Tiffany elaborates on how learning and understanding how societal norms that dictate are not the be all and that it can be “this” and “that” at the same time. It doesn’t have to be one or the other in life. You’re going to hear about how she drank all the ‘kool-aid’!  What does self care mean? And what practices are the go to? Getting back to indigenous culture and allowing friendships to reign us in when we have let go of ourselves. This episode is real, raw and relatable!