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Homeschool Unscripted

What Is Life Coaching?

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What Is Life Coaching?

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Tucked in at night by her husband, her five children, and the Rocky Mountains, Emily Bailey runs Homeschool Unscripted. Her work is to hold the space for childhood and be the homeschool mentor she never had. When she’s not homeschooling or coaching, you can find her elbow-deep in mess-making, soaking her garden-stained feet in a bubble bath, and celebrating the beauty in her days on Instagram.

I’ve never been one for shortcuts. I’m a scenic route kind of girl. So it’s no surprise I’d turn a simple thing like eggs into a collaborative curriculum, a character-building challenge, an environmentalist crusade, and a cr

You cannot be behind in your own life.

Some may look at this photo and say, “Wow! Your four-year-old is already doing reading and handwriting lessons?” Others may say, “That’s an incorrect pencil grip—she’s going

I’m a bit of a Charlotte Mason purist, and would prefer to sit and sketch a plant for twenty minutes, add some watercolor, let it dry while I watch the clouds roll by, and then go home and look it up in a nature encyclopedia to identify it. Bu

Our Nature Friday tradition was displaced by in-home ABA therapy, and it took a month before I acted on the groundbreaking idea to institute Nature Thursday. Funny how long we can keep ourselves stuck, blaming a change of circumstance for our lack o

When you’re tired, don’t quit. Rest.

Sometimes rainbows find us under the open sky. Other times, it’s up to us to make them in our living rooms.

It was an intolerably beautiful August.

I feel like the last remaining wedding guest.

It’s been a week.

There’s been hustle and heartache, presence and absence, shared grief and solitary grit...

To breathe the early morning air together, to hear the geese and spot the blue damselfly and marvel at the spiderweb suspended

This is what contentment looks like. Sometimes I think my greatest influence lies in holding space for moments like this.

How much time do your kids spend in contentment? How much do you?

I’ve been at this a while, and even though I know better, I still build up marvelously unattainable visions of what the first day of the school year will be like. An army of mothers couldn’t implement everything I have in mind for my hom

I found her here, quiet among the vines, picking blackberries. A holy moment.
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I am not the author of such moments. I cannot dictate them. My work is to imagine them, take great care to make room for them, watch, and wait.

I simply don’t

I worry about all the wrong things.

If I slow down and observe long enough, I discover the things I thought were threats are often here to serve me.

The things I thought were problems are signs that everything is working exactly as it should.

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