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Personal Relationships
The Living Joyfully Podcast
Hosted by Anna Brown and Pam Laricchia
Navigating relationships can be challenging, because people are all so different! On the Living Joyfully Podcast, we dive into tools, strategies, and paradigm shifts to help you decrease conflict and increase connection and understanding in your most important relationships. We talk about concepts like self-awareness, compassion, context, consent, and so many more.
The podcast starts with a 14-episode series which lays a foundation of new ideas and strategies. And every episode comes with thought-provoking questions to explore and share with the people in your life.
Let’s dig deep, challenge paradigms, choose connection, and live joyfully!
Subscribe in your favorite podcast player. Or watch us on YouTube.
Relationship Coaching
When relationships feel challenging, it can help to talk to someone. We can give you new strategies and tools to deepen your relationships, lessen conflicts in your home, and move toward more joyful and satisfying relationships.
Understanding consent and letting go of power struggles opens up new ways to be in relationship with our children and partners and brings a blossoming sense of joy, safety, and connection to our days.
Visit our Coaching page to learn more about us. We look forward to meeting you!
Work Relationships
LJE Solutions for Business
Is your business struggling with interpersonal and communication issues? We get your team speaking the same language!
With a personalized combination of strategy sessions, workshops, and communication skills training, we help your team better understand themselves and each other to communicate more effectively. We dig into the underlying issues affecting your business and offer customized tools and recommendations, which lead to reduced conflict, improved job satisfaction, and increased productivity.
Unschooling Resources
The Exploring Unschooling Podcast
Hosted by Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown, and Erika Ellis
Join us as we bring big-picture unschooling ideas into our everyday lives, celebrate a-ha moments with unschooling families, and answer your pressing unschooling questions. The Exploring Unschooling podcast began in 2016 and with over 300 episodes in its archive, it is a treasure trove of information and inspiration!
Subscribe in your favorite podcast player. Or watch us on YouTube.
The Living Joyfully Network
The Living Joyfully Network is an online community for parents worldwide to explore unschooling with other like-minded parents who are also choosing to embrace lifelong learning and develop strong and connected relationships with their children.
We invite you to join our candid and wide-ranging conversations about living and learning through the lens of unschooling!
Books about Unschooling
What is Unschooling? is a FREE introduction to unschooling ebook, answering some common questions about unschooling to help you explore whether unschooling might be a great fit for you and your family.
Free to Learn and Free to Live explore unschooling principles from the perspectives of learning and living, respectively. These books are short and meaty, and will help you understand the roots of unschooling.
Life through the Lens of Unschooling explores how those principles play out day-to-day. Longer and wider in scope, it will help you better understand the challenges and joys of unschooling as a lifestyle.
The Living Joyfully with Unschooling Box Set brings you all three books bundled together at a discount!
Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey framework, The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide is a weave of myths, contemporary stories, and tales from Pam’s journey.
The Childhood Redefined Unschooling Summit
The Childhood Redefined Unschooling Summit is an online workshop that focuses on the deep, personal work needed to peel away the layers of conventional ideas about learning and parenting that can get in the way of cultivating a thriving unschooling spirit in your family.
We’re not sharing a map, we’re holding the lantern for you.
Our children are not your children. Our life experiences are not yours either. We get that! We’re not simply sharing a map and expecting you to follow in our footsteps because our journey is not your journey. Instead, we are holding up a lantern and walking alongside you. Sharing our stories and insights. Helping to light your path as you to do the deep, personal (and sometimes hard!) work of peeling away the layers of conventional ideas and expectations we absorbed growing up.
Unschooling Consultations
There is no playbook for unschooling! It’s going to look different in every home. That said, sometimes it helps to talk to someone who’s been there and understands the unique joy and challenges that come from being an unschooling family. With over 50 years of unschooling experience between us, we love sharing the insights we’ve found helpful and the framework that helps you set your family up for connection and growth.
The Exploring Unschooling Podcast and Pam’s books are a great place to start, but if you’d like to have a one-on-one conversation, we’d love to meet you!
Who is the Living Joyfully Team?
Pam Laricchia is passionate about the gifts of connected relationships in parenting, unschooling, and beyond. She has written five books and dozens of articles highlighting the importance of cultivating connected relationships in our families.
Anna Brown has applied the principles of effective communication and connection in positions ranging from corporate re-engineering to couples counseling. She loves sharing ways to improve all the relationships and interactions in our lives.
Erika Ellis brings a creative eye to everything she touches. She dives deep into self-discovery and how understanding more about ourselves and our differences improves all of our relationships.