Pivoting

caregiver burnout homeschool and work homeschool with ease parenting and working pivot Apr 27, 2022

Evaluations start soon (stay tuned for contracts, and more info on how to schedule, it's coming soon).

I was telling a friend today as I resigned some Facebook volunteer work in my awesome co-op that my body was literally saying: something has to change.

In the past sixteen years, I have:

birthed a child with Down syndrome and autism

finished a difficult Master's thesis in Town Slavery (some traumatic record research and reading for sure)

birthed a second child

helped run a non-profit branch of an international support group that included fundraising and conference planning

homeschooled

birthed a third child

kept homeschooling

2015 opened my own business

did over 1000 hours of yoga-yoga therapy school, culminating in final yoga therapy practicums where I graduated with an equivalent of a Master's degree

did several awesome coaching programs

applied and won a patented trademark for set learning free-trademarked

helped Josie, with complex medical needs survive four life-threatening hospitalizations

and by the grace of god/merciful universe, got us all thru Covid

Like the woman I read about who after years of nights with only 3-5 hours of sleep, literally went to bed for over a year with such chronic fatigue (I wish I recall the awesome author but I can't at the moment); my body is saying something has to give.

So I am pivoting.

I am releasing my volunteer work for a pause.

I am releasing a lot of outgoing-ness and go-getting

and I'm making room for:

rest

homeschooling with ease and more restful practices (less busy-ness)

time with true and loving friends and family

and time for meaningful work with beloved clients

I love meaningful work and sharing healing tools with clients, who are my beloveds. So I will have time for you, though it will be meaningful, connected, and valuable.

Less clutter and distraction, more space for deep meaningful work-

the absolute good stuff.

Much love, hugs, and hopes that you find some good stuff too. Tell me all about it! I'd love to hear from you.

-Sarah

sarah @ setlearningfree.com

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Sarah Blunkosky, M.A., 200 E-RYT, RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT is an integrative education consultant, certified peer-breastfeeding counselor, and registered Accessible Yoga instructor specializing in family, children’s, special-needs, and prenatal/postpartum movement/embodiment. Her learning life spanned teaching high school social studies at Open High School in Richmond, Virginia to studying slavery and social history on a graduate school path that pivoted when her eldest daughter's intellectual disabilities and medical needs required an intensive lifestyle shift. She started Learning Heroine LLC in 2015. You can find her on Instagram and Facebook sharing her dharma/mission: Set learning free. When she isn’t homeschooling her kids or teaching yoga, you can find her writing articles and working on a book. A forever student of yoga, she is also studying to become a certified yoga therapist.

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