Alanis Morissette opens up about breastfeeding, being an empath, unschooling her children
"I love moms so much. If I talk about it too much I'll start crying. I just think moms are so selfless day in and day out -- women are just killing it all the time”
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- Alanis Morissette (@Alanis) April 7, 2020
Alanis Morissette and rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway are the parents of son Ever Imre, daughter Onyx Solace, and son Winter Mercy.
Why did you want to appear on the cover of this magazine while breastfeeding?
Because I love women. I love moms so much. If I talk about it too much, I’ll start crying. I just think moms are so selfless day in and day out-women are just killing it all the time. And they are so often quietly suffering, or not-so-quietly suffering, and still going-functioning sufferers. And if there can be even one moment of respite that my humor around it or my validation of it can help-that’s why I did it. Plus, I love education and teaching.
You’ve said you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP). Would you share more about that?
About 20 percent of humans have a highly sensitive temperament-it’s a trait. It’s like having brown hair. A nonsensitive temperament will walk into a room and pick up 50 pieces of information. A sensitive person will walk into a room and get 500 pieces of information. So is there any question as to why highly sensitive people get overstimulated really quickly? It doesn’t mean we can’t contain it, but we might go a little crazy. Then, of those people who have highly sensitive temperaments, an even smaller percent are empaths.
You practice unschooling with your children-can you explain what that is?
Unschooling, for me, is child-led education. So if there’s some agenda like, “Let’s play with these magnet tiles,” and my daughter is like, “F--- those tiles. I want to put glitter on that thing and cut the tree and put the thing,” boom-we do that. I basically get inside their eyeballs. I’m constantly watching their eyes and what they’re pulled toward, and then we do the deep dive. My husband and I create pods all over the house-here’s where the spelling area is, and here’s where the fake animals are. There’s probably a better definition of unschooling, but there’s no rigidity to it.
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