About the Author

For approximately the first four decades of my life, I handled discontent in the manner most people consider normal. Specifically, I taught myself early on that blaming and condemning was the way to preserve my innocence and avoid the threat of punishment, sickness and death. I made my personality, my body, other people, places, things and circumstances responsible for my unhappy feelings, and I projected guilty feelings by blaming and condemning each of them accordingly. My roles as mother to three children, wife and business partner triggered so many unhappy feelings and guilty projections that I no longer felt like the joyful, carefree person I thought I was. Instead, I felt confused, desperate, depressed and sick. In 2009, it occurred to me that there must be a better way, and my mind was instantly set on finding that way. I launched a website called The Way to The Way, and started sharing my discoveries. I spent approximately five years researching, writing, crying, praying, practicing yoga, meditating and experimenting with many different healing methods, until I had a major breakthrough in the summer of 2014. Instantly, the underlying cause of feeling unhappy was revealed, along with understanding how to resolve what causes unhappy feelings to crop up. I suddenly understood what Jesus meant when he said You have dominion over the world, and I was eager to apply that understanding to my worldly perceptions. Over time, all of my triggers arose in their full intensity, only to be resolved through the application of reason. For every trigger that was resolved, I could feel my childlike sense of wonder and joy returning, and I perceived my personal relationships healing and blossoming. In 2018, when the Kilauea lava flow apparently wiped out my family home, gardens and business facility - all of which were uninsured - I realized that I had attained the quality of happiness that could not be shaken by worldly circumstances. To this day, I continue to use the sense of unhappiness for healing its cause, which makes me happy, and the world reciprocates my happiness with kindness, gentleness and gratitude.

Reviews

"Love shines throughout Unschooling for Parents and the words are a healing balm for my heart. As a former teacher of 10 years, I believe this book to be essential reading for parents of any age. Hope offers Wisdom to recognize our perceptions, heal guilt, and tune in to the feelings of our manifested experiences. Wow ! What a gift to give to those we most treasure.
Though my children are in their mid-twenties, I revisited my perceived trials as a single mother often. Reading Unschooling for Parents presents repeated opportunities to heal inaccurate beliefs, forgive myself and my children, and Be Free!
Unschooling for Parents and Wisdom Dialogues offers a loving playground to explore our own Awakening. Mahalo nui loa Hope for this precious gift." Michelle McClellan​​​"Oh my goodness, Hope's book is so full of profound insight. Whatever your relationship dynamic might be, if your heart is open, this book just might expose the beautiful opportunity of whatever conflict you might be experiencing." Tiger Singleton​​ "What Hope is describing is genuine love, not the illusion of pseudo love tinged with fear. We have the Bible's New Testament which is the greatest love story ever told. Jesus demonstrated living the law of love. And if we didn't have the four gospels we wouldn't know what he meant by love. Now we have Hope Johnson in our midst and she exemplifies genuine Christ love for our modern era. She describes how she blundered through all of the painful, fear-based illusions with her children before she awakened out of her dream of separation, setting herself and her family free with non-judgmental allowing, divine will, angelic help, and choiceless awareness. Hope is chock-full of love, appreciation, gratitude, joy, and laughter."​ Bob Shine "Hope Johnson leads us on an amazing journey in her book, Unschooling for Parents. At the core of this method is the right of everyone in the family, children included, to be motivated by inspiration rather than from obligation that seems imposed by the outer world. Within this, is the belief that our children have a powerful inner guidance that we can trust! "Children are formed to express the Spirit of Freedom and inspire everyone to free themselves from the tyranny of a confused mind." Hope Johnson Yes, this book is cutting edge! Hope uses stories from her own life to better reveal her outstanding perspective and how she attained it. She writes that most of us don't even know the difference between reality and illusion! Good thing one chapter is called, "The Way to Enlightenment"! Hope covers a wide range of pertinent parental topics: Respect, Shame, Forgiveness, Bullying, Nonviolence, Complaining, True Responsibility, etc. She gives helpful guidelines and step by step approaches for deeper understanding and encouragement. Every sentence written with Love. This book calls families to greater happiness and deeper connections, I encourage you to read and savor, Unschooling for Parents." Jill Renee Walton, Intuitive Counselor, Educator, and Ceremonialist