Arcanum Wholistic Clinic

September Newsletter

Letting Go : A Challenge Of Parenting

I recently outlined how our love function metamorphoses up through our four bodies, and how this is a key factor for assessing where we are in our health. Looking at the love function of agape, which relates to our ontic organization, one of the challenges which we typically have to face over and over through life is of “letting go”...

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Self-Education For Excellence: The Inside Out Philosophy Of Lifelong Learning 

"If you’ve picked up this book, you may be struggling with the same questions I once had, as someone who decided to pursue unschooling with her two children many years ago. Now that you’ve decided that your child(ren) will be leaving the traditional school setting, you may be asking yourself some pretty deep questions. What, if any, curriculum should you apply? You may be asking yourself, “Am I qualified to be their primary educator?...



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Dear ,

This month we’re talking about parenting, letting go, and championing self-education practices for your child’s health and autonomy. Jeff and I were pioneers when it came to fostering volitional learning in our kids. We received a lot of concern and criticism for a more project based approach to education, as my kids were honored with the capacity to dictate their own curriculum.

Why we shove a pile of information into uninterested kids during a span of 20-25 years was proving deleterious to many kids I’d served over the last 25 years. Both Jeff and I saw our patients' kids struggle with self-worth, stress from allopathic curricula, and trying to fit into a world that was morphing super rapidly.

Our philosophy was to foster resourcefulness, sovereignty, and motivated life long learners. Thankfully, those are in fact the results we have observed in our adult children, who are nimble and self-guided in their chosen fields of expertise. I could not be more proud. They’ve very adroitly garnered their own resources to fashion lives that they both love and feel fulfilled by.

So have a gander at the articles attached and see what resonates for you and your child so that you can also potentially champion healthy, labile, life-long learners too. No doubt, it will also foster in you the most fulfilling feeling as you observe them unfold naturally, with their sense of independence and self-gleaned knowledge wholly intact.

Love,

Ally and Jeff

Unconventional Parenting; Why I Became a Proponent of Self-Education

I was not a conventional parent. I actually never once corrected my children’s spelling or pronunciation or reading unless they asked me to. I did read aloud constantly in the evenings, played music or sang, though, and if they were interested, they’d choose to engage by listening, participating, or asking questions. I would engage with activities that I loved and then often they would just join in. I left it entirely to their volition. I did not want to be a false authority in their lives; however, I did display my own profound love for literature, art, music, science and nature.

I felt that just because I gave birth to them did not give me the right to lord some nefarious sense of seniority over them...



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