HELP! My Child Hates School
An Awakened Parent’s Guide to Action
When children resist school, it’s not defiance — it’s a message.
In this compassionate, practical guide, I help parents decode what that resistance is trying to tell them. Drawing from 25 years as an educator, administrator, and consultant, I explore the deeper reasons why school often fails to fit our children — and what families can do about it.
Through real stories, reflection prompts, and clear action steps, readers learn how to:
- Recognize when traditional schooling is harming curiosity or confidence
- Reclaim a love of learning for both parent and child
- Explore new pathways — from homeschooling to micro-schools — that honor each child’s natural gifts
If you’ve ever felt like your child is “the problem,” this book will help you see them differently — as a signal that it’s time for something better.
The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook
Personalized Learning for Your Child — and an Amazing Business for You
What if instead of trying to fix the system, you built something entirely new?
This handbook is both a visionary roadmap and a step-by-step guide for anyone dreaming of creating a school where children thrive. Whether you’re a teacher ready to leave the system or a parent seeking a better fit for your child, this book walks you through how to design, launch, and sustain your own microschool — one that reflects your values and community.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
- Identify your “5 Ws” — who, what, where, when, and why — for building your school
- Turn your gifts into your school’s unique “special sauce”
- Create a sustainable business model that supports your mission
- Build confidence, eliminate fears, and open your doors within a year
This book has inspired hundreds of educators and families to reimagine learning from the ground up — one joyful, purpose-driven school at a time.
Initiations: A Cancer Memoir
Coming soon…
This book is my most personal work to date — a meditation on healing, identity, and the courage it takes to live awake.
After facing cancer twice, I began to understand illness not as punishment, but as initiation — a sacred teacher guiding me back to myself.
Initiations: A Cancer Memoir weaves together stories from my life with reflections on energy, spirit, and meaning. It’s written for anyone navigating illness, loss, or transformation — and for those who sense that healing is more than recovery. It’s remembering who you are.
This book invites you to:
- View your challenges as part of your soul’s curriculum
- Embrace vulnerability as the gateway to wisdom
- Reclaim the parts of you that were lost along the way
Each chapter offers not just story, but medicine — a reflection, a practice, a way forward.
THE INITATIONS TAROT
Born from the same well of experience as Initiations: A Cancer Memoir, this 78-card deck transforms the healing journey into an intimate dialogue with the soul.
Every card represents a step along the path — from collapse to emergence, shadow to light, fear to faith.
Created for readers, healers, and seekers alike, the deck helps you:
- Explore your inner landscape through archetype and story
- Translate pain into wisdom and self-compassion
- Reconnect with the part of you that already knows how to heal
It’s not a fortune-telling deck — it’s a mirror.
A companion for those ready to walk through the fire and come home radiant.
Dr. Mara Linaberger 