This podcast shares stories about non-coercive change. Guests share how joy, curiosity, community, and a sense of purpose lead to unlearning, deprogramming, deschooling, and deconstructing how we live our lives and who we think we are. It's not just seeing what's wrong that leads to sustainable shifts--but seeing what's right.

Topics including: leaving high control religion, neurodivergence, unschooling, decolonizing, arts and music, trans rights, and toxic family systems.

Part memoirs, part social and cultural analysis.

You'll enjoy "Untangling Ourselves" if you enjoy listening to podcasts like: "On Being," "How to Survive the End of the World," "Reclaiming," "Your Kids Don't Suck," "Becoming the People," "We Can't Do it Alone / You Me Empathy," "Leadermorphosis," "Cults to Consciousness," "Family Secrets," "Exploring Unschooling," "Grounded Futures," "You are Going to Die," or "We Can do Hard Things."

Hosted by Kaitlin. I'm a white cis woman, unschooling parent, social media admin, and former academic. As an academic I studied English, Native American studies, Queer theory, and Feminist theory. I now spend most of my time parenting, doing community organizing, and helping organize crowd-sourced information about unschooling, disability, and neurodivergence for Unschooling Every Family.

Unschooling forced me to question so many "shoulds" and biases. The deschooling process led to unlearning ableism via the work of Autsitic self-advocates, which led to setting boundaries and then recognizing abusive family systems. This process changed my life dramatically. With the help of illustrator Kerry Vineberg, I tell that story of change in a short comic memoir published by Mutha Magazine.

With this podcast, I want to share other people's stories about what changed their lives.

You can find me at my website, or posting mostly on Mastadon, sometimes on Bluesky and Substack, and less on Instagram.

For interview requests, appearance inquiries, feedback, etc. please use this gmail address: untanglingourselvespod

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