The Unmasking Unschool Podcast

Doors to The SOLA System + Siblings are OPEN for enrolment: View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ __________________________ Episode Summary: When what you want to CREATE or BECOME isn’t just new or unknown, but ALSO involves being more of the parts of you that have in the past been actively discouraged, the fear of being “too much/not good en...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode Summary: In the legacy of Eurocentric forms of knowledge, that are about having a self appointed god-like gaze over others and naming and labelling and defining meanings into splits separations and hierarchies, there is an obsession with being right. With doing the right thing in the right way; fit...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode Summary: Money does not have to equal extraction and exploitation. But when we witness corruption that leads to lives being valued below profit, AND also hear phrases like "charge your worth", it can lead to thinking that our worthiness has something to do with our ability to be productive or fit i...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode Summary: 'Autistic burnout' ?  Afraid of reaching and aspiring because of the inevitable crash and burn? Overly familiar with over-adapting and recovery cycles? This episode is for you... and it's about step one: The REFUSAL;  the "NO";  the de-consenting;  This is how healing can begin.  The decis...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ This episode is all about creating safety to take up space; to expand our agency and influence; in the world, in our work, in our relationships. I speak to how the internalisation of external harms we experience, can take up space in our bodies and hearts and minds and future outlook. Unpacking it is...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _______________ Episode summary: If you've been fearful of having a repeat experience of mutual support and peer groups; of negotiating the unclear rules and expectations of a semi-social space, of not knowing whether it's your turn, or how much space to take up, running the same scripts of tending to others needs instead...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings ) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late-identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the c...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ Episode summary: There are a whole lot of external conditions you didn't choose. Those conditions influence the habitual self you became in response. When that habitual self no longer fits, or never fit. Or you’ve awakened to the desire to BE in a new way; When you are being pulled into a next version...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ Episode summary: Masking is a systemic issue. A learned response to to stigma, inaccessible and oppressive structures and social expectations. It also creates a belief that I want to highlight: "I can't be myself AND make life work" This is an inevitable conclusion of having learned that YOUR natural...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ Episode summary: After realising you are autistic there is a needs must to deep dive "obsessively". To share everything you are learning ("info dump"). To make a “special interest” of (a.k.a. become a niche specialist in) all things autism . And my words to you are: go for it!! But I also want to shar...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ Episode summary: Autistic folks, have to EXPLAIN themselves too much. The gap between the lived experiences of YOU and the lived experience that consensus reality regards as REAL… is a wide canyon. Crossing it, too often falls on YOU to explain your way into their reality SO it is reasonable to believ...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ Episode summary: Am I becoming "more autistic"? There is an ableist tint to this question, that can accompany realising you are autistic later in life, or during any times in which there is just MORE going on. The MORE might not be the immediate stressors of your sensory or social environment. They ca...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings ) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late-identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the c...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ _____________________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings ) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late-identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the c...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ Episode summary: This Episode is all about Reflecting on the year that was 2022, and setting intentions for 2023. I take you through a 9 step reflection process, to gain clarity and connection for your year ahead. Set aside an hour to quiet the noise and get in touch with your true wishes for a year of self becoming. The a...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ Episode summary: Labels can be helpful. To help you name an experience. To have a way to refer to where you are at. And accept that this is where you are at. But they can also become your identity, locate a problem entirely in your body, and making it seem like this is just who you are. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria , is o...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ______________________ Autistic scripting and why you experience higher levels of rejection than others, and how to evolve your experience of yourself beyond the exhaustion of trying to replicate the ideals of normative culture... Papers mentioned in this episode: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40700 https://pubmed.nc...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ______________ Episode summary: This episode kicks off a series of podcasts on this topic of belonging to ourselves more fully, and in every new arena we enter... You might say that belonging to yourself means: Deciding that you allow … yourself. That you allow … the experiences you are actually in. That you are allowed to...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ___________________ Episode summary: Is there an internal reality that you know about, but you haven’t enacted the decisions to make it real on the outside? Because you know it will change things. Be it a way of expressing yourself, or your sexuality or your gender or your cognitive style, or identity, or a role in the wor...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode summary: It can be hard to know what you want ,  when you don't believe that you get to create what you want. That you have permission. When so often, what you wanted (to do, be, say, not say) has been “ wrong ”; And when over-adapting has been hard enough, so anything bigger, better, brighter, bey...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ Episode sumary: Do you know what uses up an overwhelming amount of cognitive bandwidth? Unmade decisions. Unmade decisions like: W hat shall I do with this shirt I don’t like anymore? What shall I reply to that email? What should I do about the job offer when it’s not my dream? Unmade decisions are like op...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ The sensory siblings podcast is hosted by Louisa Shaeri, and beaming to you from the The SOLA System + Siblings, the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for creative, late identified autistic folks who are seeking another way to see, know and be yourself. This is a radical reimagining of what is po...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ The sensory siblings podcast is hosted by Louisa Shaeri, and beaming to you from the The SOLA System + Siblings, the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for creative, late identified autistic folks who are seeking another way to see, know and be yourself. This is a radical reimagining of what is po...

View Louisa's latest project here: VALORIZE:  https://www.valorize.systems/ ________________ The sensory siblings podcast is hosted by Louisa Shaeri, and beaming to you from the The SOLA System + Siblings, the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for creative, late identified autistic folks who are seeking another way to see, know and be yourself. This is a radical reimagining of what is po...