Envisioning community and learning as unschoolers in a rich conversation with Lucy Aitkenread. She is a writer, an activist, and unschooling mother who moved her family from London to a forest in New Zealand. You can find her all over the internet; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube with her screen name Lulastic and the Hippyshake.
She graduated from the London School of Economics in 2008 with a Master of Science in Social Policy. After working for a Global NGO as a climate change campaigner her love of social and environmental justice took a turn towards the impact our lifestyles have on the earth’s resources, and the different ways that raising children can promote or impede a fairer world.
Lucy has written two bestselling books, "Happy Hair" a guide on living without shampoo, and "Freedom Face: a beauty guide on body products" that want to enable women to shrug off the toxicity, both in ingredients and self-hating messages of the beauty industry. Her third and fourth books are "30 Days of Rewilding: Find your place in nature and watch your family bloom" and "Moon Circle: Rediscover Intuition, Wildness, and Sisterhood". Lucy has also formal training in Integrated Wellness.
Through her work, Lucy hopes to inspire people to live in peaceful relationships with the children in their life and the earth they tread upon.
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*(20’55”) Lucy mentioned a ship, at the time of recording a massive container ship got stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal, halting marine traffic for almost a week. The Ever Given container ship was freed in the Suez Canal on Monday, March 29, 2021.
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