The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids: Your Guide to Raising and Resonating With the New Children

by Maureen Healy

In "The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids," Maureen Healy tackles the subject of indigo children from a whole new vantage point: energy. Aimed at healers, stay-at-home moms, and parents who are struggling to understand the unique qualities of their indigo children, the book covers such topics as:
How indigo energy works
How indigos heal
The keys to indigo success
You will learn to see indigos from an energetic perspective--how they think, how they make decisions, what they need, how they heal, and what triggers them the most--as well as how to get them back on track, prevent meltdowns, and, ultimately, see them succeed.
"The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids" is a groundbreaking book that reveals how these new children operate in the world. You'll learn more about your child's energetic system, including how his/her chakras operate differently. Along with this insightful information, Maureen also provides practical tips based on her real-life work with indigo kids worldwide. She shares how to help them manage their energy better, heal from emotional upheavals more completely, and create more harmony in their lives.
Maureen shares real stories of her clients, their experiences and how they found more success with their highly sensitive, stubborn, and even defiant indigo kids.

Genres: Parenting

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2013

About the author

Maureen Healy is a child development and parenting expert with twenty years of experience fostering children's holistic health. Her organization, Growing Happy Kids, is committed to planting the seeds of strength and inner peace in children globally. With both experience in private practice and as a public advocate for children, Maureen has helped countless parents, teachers, and children develop the skill of self-confidence and learn how to cause happiness.

Unique about Maureen is that she has spent a significant portion of her life studying Eastern and Western psychologies focused upon how to be happier. She has studied in Asia with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, worked with Tibetan children in India, and has continued to be a student of Tibetan Buddhism with her root lama in the United States. Complimenting her eastern mindset, Maureen also delved deeply into the western science of happiness through studying child clinical psychology and working with some of the 'great' thinkers of our time.

With such an insightful and rare perspective, Maureen has become a leading voice in the field of parenting and children's emotional health. She writes a popular blog on Psychology Today's website titled 'Creative Development' and has also appeared on ABC's View from the Bay, CW's San Diego Living, and NBC's Philadelphia 10! Her writing has appeared in Spirituality & Health, Tathaastu, and Counselor Magazine as well as notable websites like PBS's This Emotional Life series. She is also a sought after speaker for educational conferences, international events, and parenting programs across the nation.

Healy's intuitive insights and scientific understanding of children is grounded in her background. She studied psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts where she received a BA and also an MBA focused on human potential. She then studied at Fielding Graduate University based in Santa Barbara, California, where she focused on child clinical psychology and completed two years of doctoral training. Combining these educational experiences with practical understanding, Maureen is committed to being a force for good on behalf of children everywhere. For more information, please visit www.growinghappykids.com.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book from a Goodreads Giveaway.

Really, 1.5 stars. At first I was quite intrigued by this book, as the basic descriptions of the "indigo kid" seemed to fit my own son very well. The more of the book I read, the more disenchanted I became, and the less I respected the author's advice. I wish I could believe that holding an overpriced crystal would turn my highly gifted- IQ son into a less defiant or more focused kindergartner, but it doesn't work, and the chances of him being willing to go through acupuncture are next to none. I also was somewhat appalled at some of the advice she gave, which erred more on the side of bribing your child than anything else. Although I felt she had some good insights on children of this certain temperament when discussing their triggers (in fact, she was spot on in identifying the triggers, but I disagreed w/ her advice to try to avoid them and am pretty sure that w/out a lot of practice in the world on how to deal w/ their triggers, these kids are going to wind up very, very spoiled and self-centered), I do not think that most of the advice she offers is of much, if any value beyond that. I feel badly that I could not rate this book higher, as I try to be kind/fair in my reviews of any giveaways. :/

[A Marie DeTour · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great guide

[Liz Hester · Rating 5 out of 5]

I sat next to Maureen on an emergency flight to Denver one fateful day.

I was always a highly sensitive child growing up and somehow I made it out of the public school system and thrived. As a mother of an even more highly sensitive child, I understood her challenges and that old school parenting would not serve her. My family did not understand my parenting methods. They respected me and my results with my daughter, but they did not understand what I was doing and that caused me to second guess myself at times.

On that wonderful flight, Maureen and I shared the joys of highly spiritual children that we are blessed to help in their journey and when I got home I read both of her books.

I cried for myself. At last someone understood the challenges I had faced all those years. I cried for my daughter. At last someone validated the partnership parenting I'd been doing all these years. And I sighed with relief. Finally someone had helpful, concrete suggestions on how to channel all that Indigo energy for the good of all. I love the validation and help and my daughter loves the stories of other Indigo children her age (she's 9).

Maureen has been a Godsend. When we are ready to listen, the teacher arrives. Thank you Maureen for making your teachings readily available for us to find! Namaste

[Dawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an interesting book that I won in a Goodreads giveaway. It gives advice for raising sensitive, intuitive, and unique Indigo children. I think alot of the advice is good overall in that it really encourages embracing your children for who they are, and showing them the empathy and compassion all children deserve. Some of the concepts, for example reiki and crystals, are a bit different for me, but nonetheless I appreciated hearing the authors views on energy healing, and concede they are worth exploring further. I'm still not fully sold on the Indigo Kid concept, and alot of the characteristics seem to overlap with austism spectrum disorders, but if you have a child who is a bit different and or distressed give this book a shot. If nothing else, it will remind you that your child is unique and needs to be treated with respect and patience.

[Noreen · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I received the book, I had never heard of Indigo kids. It is a very interesting and well written book. I learned a lot and I will definitely read it more than once.