Guided by cyclical living & storytelling
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Let's dream in on beautiful classrooms that speak to our souls
I love you to meet Jessica White. A deeply loving neurodiverse writer of stories that heal the soul, educator, mom, homeschooler, curious cyclical beauty and embodied coach for authors & storytellers. With her platform Authors Apothecary (gorgeous name) she supports writers get unstuck and reconnect to their true inner authority through embodied self care.
She’s actually a fully trained educator - By the time she was ready to enter the education world chronic illness knocked her off her feet. In the end this path of healing and dealing with chronic illness and neurodiversity ignited her true calling into whole body and cyclical living, writing and learning. Bold and beautiful she decided to work, live and raise her kids in a more embodied way away from the rigid school systems in The U.S.
This bright power woman, leads the way in our honest conversation by opening up how it is to navigate the world with a strong neurotypical focus! I believe all teachers of some classroom should listen in to realise how dominant embodied frames can limit so much of our neurodiverse learners and actually keep them small!
Let’s dive into this new year with powerful and daring cyclical advice from Jessica, how to heal our relationship with time, energy, attention, and space through seasonal living, somatic practices, and self compassion.
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Jessica White is a fiction author and story coach who helps neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled writers craft authentic stories while honoring their unique creative rhythms. Combining her decade of experience as founder of the 365 Writing Challenge and admin for several other writing communities with a degree in educational studies, she guides storytellers in healing their relationship with time, energy, attention, and space.
Through the Authors Apothecary, Jessica blends somatic awareness, seasonal living, and mindful creativity to support writers in crafting authentic stories. Her work draws from both professional expertise as a developmental editor and personal experience with ADHD and chronic illness. Her published works span multiple genres and publishing styles, including ghostwriting. As an editor and story coach, she's helped dozens of writers bring their stories to life, believing that storytellers are healers, caretakers, and stewards of possibility.
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00:00 Introduction to the Embodied Educator Podcast
00:47 Meet Jessica White: A Journey of Embodied Living
02:09 Cyclical Living and Intentions for the New Year
03:56 Embracing Beauty in Everyday Life
11:17 The Waldorf Approach and Homeschooling
15:32 Unschooling and Democratic Education
24:21 Cyclical Wisdom in Writing and Productivity
33:58 Cultivating Relationships and Building Systems
35:29 Fragmented Learning and Lifelong Education
36:56 Finding Your Rhythm and Flow
38:25 From Habits to Engagement and Personal Systems
40:41 Emotional Awareness and Expression
48:58 Neurodiversity and Emotional Expression
53:34 Embodiment and Emotional Intelligence
Tune in on minute 43 Where Jessica invites you to explore your embodied feelings. Listen to her explanation, then check out the feelingswheel. Maybe take a note pad to see if you notice any movements / expressions / facial expressions (the eye roll for example) / intonation / sensations / tied to a certain emotion. What emotions do you recognize, and how do you express them?
(TIP: track photo's (not the duck face selfies though ;P) you actually might see some body and facial patterns too. Lets just say me 'Liz' as a child had a very clear emotional frustrated posture that cam out in family photo's!!)
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The Embodied Educator Podcast 👩🏻🏫 is hosted by Liz Wientjes. I am curious how body wisdom lands with you! Don't be shy, contact me any way you feel comfortable to share anything you like regarding your embodied practice inside or outside your classroom. Hearing your ideas/experiments/questions/doubts/moves rocks my world ❤️🔥
// IN CONTACT WITH JESSICA
🌍 Her website: https://authorsapothecary.com/
📱Instagram: @authorsapothecary
📱Facebook: @authorsapothecary
LinkedIn: @Jessica White
Bluesky: @authorsapothecary
Threads: @authorsapothecary
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Podcast interview with Adele Wimsett on ADHD and the hormone impact on neurodivergent women.
A lot of women receive a 'late' diagnose of ADHD, because of the medical world missing the patterns for women bodies! my conversation with Jessica also made me remember an interesting interview on women and ADHD on another podcast. There Adele Wimsett says:
"We often have our ADHD traits misconceived as character flaws"
and this I've experienced first hand many many many times! Liz you are too emotional, Liz you go too fast, Liz you move too much with your body and hands, Liz your facial expression is too wild. Can you just calm down, your enthousiasm is scary... So just sharing here, to maybe help someone somewhere someplace to come home to their beautiful body - however you show up!