$33.95
Wonderful and unique additions to anyone’s parenting repertoire is Dr. Reznick’s LA Times best-selling book, The Power of Your Child’s Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success (Penguin Random House) to help parents learn how to empower kids with easy, effective, and creative skills for thriving in our stressful world. And in The Cave of Great Wisdom CD for parent support, Dr. Reznick combines relaxation, soft music, and positive suggestions to help parents discover their own rich and innovative inner resources. As an added bonus, the “Listen to your heart…” heart lovey – can help reduce stress just by holding it.
Description
The Power of Your Child’s Imagination
Los Angeles Times Best-Seller!
The Power of Your Child’s Imagination will show you how to empower a child with easy, effective, and creative skills for surviving—and thriving—in a stressful world. This indispensable guide provides nine simple mindful tools to help children cope with stress and anxiety by tapping into their imagination to access their own natural strength and confidence.
In this book you will discover how to help a child:
- Love, accept, and appreciate himself
- Reduce pain and heal other physical ailments
- Overcome fears, such as fear of the unknown, abandonment, doctors, and disasters
- Deal with bedtime issues such as insomnia and bedwetting
- Cope with death, divorce, and other losses
- Handle anger, hurt, and frustration
- Achieve success at school and in sports
- Live peacefully with siblings and parents
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, therapist, or medical professional, you can benefit from the original tools and tips in this book.
The Cave of Great Wisdom CD
The Cave of Great Wisdom
Track List
- Encouraging Words (6:03)
- Heart-Centered Breathing (5:39)
- The Cave of Great Wisdom (11:27)
- Continuing to Relax With Music Only (10:02)
Audio Sample
Testimonials
The Power of Your Child’s Imagination
Must-have in Every Parent’s Library
“As a mom of seven, I am very familiar with a child’s imagination. Leave it up to Charlotte Reznick to take this imagination and turn it into a tool for children to achieve success in their lives. She gives a step-by-step plan to help children use imagery to not just eliminate fear, depression, and anxiety, but also to create joy and confidence in their lives. Thank you, Charlotte, for using your insight and gifting to help parents all over this planet.”
Hannah Keeley
Such a Gift to Me!
“I am so grateful for Dr. Reznick’s book. As a Psychologist, Author and Parent I can relate to it in so many different ways. As a Psychologist, I am excited to have it as a resource to work with my clients. As an author, I appreciate how well and practically written it is. She makes it so easy to lift these practices off of the page to use with my own child and clients. I guess that speaks to why I love it as a parent too. My intention with this review is to really share the gift that this book is.”
Elisha Goldstein PhD,
Co-Author A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Author Uncovering
Happiness, and The Now Effect
A Unique and Important Contribution to Help Children Discover the Power of Their Minds
“In my practice as a child psychologist, I recommend this book to all my anxious clients with busy minds. Once the children understand that they have a powerful gift of imagination that needs to be channeled I direct them to Charlotte’s book which is filled with creative and imaginative tools that children can easily use to harness the power of their imaginations. This book is timely and incredibly useful, especially for children who are suffering from overactive imaginations which are pulling them into states of anxiety and worry, often causing them a lot of distress.”
Dr. Robin Alter,
Author of Anxiety and the Gift of Imagination
Life and World-Changing Healing and Fun!
“Dr. Reznick is quietly, sweetly and entertainingly fomenting a revolution in consciousness! And I am very, very glad for it. Where WAS she when I was a single parent raising my children, looking for ways to deal with bedwetting, nighttime anxieties, and children who had problems getting to sleep? Dr. Reznick’s deceptively simple “9 Tools” for helping your child work with his/her imagination contains the seeds of an entirely new way of working with “problems,” illnesses, psychological issues and common, everyday concerns that, when used by a large number of people, has the potential to change the way we relate in families, solve our problems, heal our bodies, etc. And, once accepted (as it will be because it’s so delightful!), human beings will behave differently down through the ages. It’s brilliant. It’s also wonderful. As a psychotherapist of 37 years, I recognize what magnificent tools Dr. Reznick gives us for bypassing the logical mind to get to the internal wisdom of people who need psychological help. She says doctors, nurses, teachers and a host of other helpers also can benefit as they use imagination to improve classroom performance, heal headaches, disappear warts, and change nasty habits. Dr. Reznick, I am most grateful! Thank you for your innovations and for sharing these with our world. Thanks for being on my radio program, too (Full Power Living).”
Ilene L. Dillon
Innovative Approach to Children’s Common Challenges
“Dr. Reznick’s book has been a gift to me and my children…both of which suffer from anxiety. I’ve used (and am using now) the techniques in her book to successfully reduce fears and help them relax and fall asleep more easily. I love the way her book is layed out. You get clear concise instructions for helping your child do these truly innovative techniques, then she gives you a sample “script” to read to your child while he/she has his/her eyes closed. Then she gives you real life examples of kids she’s worked with this specific technique and how they utilized it to overcome some difficulty. Then she give variations on the technique and what to do if the child doesn’t respond to it. I highly recommend this book to every parent.”
Victoria Loveland-Coen
A School Counselor’s Dream
“Dr. Reznick’s book, “The Power of Your Child’s Imagination is such a perfect book for any school counselor. I work with the lowest performing children in the Los Angeles School District and am always searching for tools to help these children and their parents. I know they need a safe, calm, peaceful environment to help them understand the pain, grief, loss and trauma that so many experience to have a more successful and thriving emotional and academic life. So many of these children experience ADD/ADHD like symptoms as well as being so angry and acting out at home and in the classroom. I strive to bring activities and games to heighten or stimulate their imagination and to give them as many stress-free and calming moments. This book is a veritable plethora of amazing interventions that are so needed for these children and their parents. It is like I thought to myself everything I have been thinking and dreaming about that would help these kids….and Dr. Reznick put it all into words that are so reader-friendly! Brava Charlotte…Just what I needed to start my school year! I will share it with all my colleagues and friends.”
Sherri Jaye LMFT, PSA
A Must Read for Clinicians and Families
“This book is positive, powerful and well written. The messages of tapping into the power of a child’s imagination is the key to unlocking his wants, desires and much more. The 9 inner tools are clearly explained. I suggest that all serious clinicians read it as well as offer it to their families and bring harmony to them.”
Susan Graysen PhD
A Great Resource for Parents and Anyone Who Care for Children!
“In 44 years in the field of child psychology, I’ve worked directly with parents and children, conducted research on children’s mental health, and provided training to mental health professionals around the world. In my long career I’ve discovered few books as practical and effective as Charlotte Reznick’s in giving parents strategies they can use right here, right now, to help their children manage stress, stay focused and enjoy life! When I read this book I couldn’t wait to add it to the resource list I give to professionals in my public speaking engagements. Even more, I couldn’t wait to have Dr. Reznick as a guest on Mom Enough, a weekly talk show I do with my daughter Erin, a maternal-child health specialist, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education and the Working Family Resource Center. The interview we did with Dr. Reznick quickly became one of the most popular of the shows archived on our website, with many parents telling us their success stories of how they have used the ideas in the book. (You can listen for yourself at […], but you also will want the book so you can get the full picture of how to use these helpful strategies.) As I have told Dr. Reznick, I had occasion the very night of our interview to use some of the strategies myself to get me through a very stressful situation. So imagination is a great tool for grandmas as well as children! And, in the weeks since we read the book and discussed it on our show, both my daughter and I have used the strategies many times with her children, ages 5 and almost 7. What is most heartening is to see these young children begin to internalize these imagery techniques as their own, sometimes not even needing an adult to prompt them that it’s time for tapping into their imagination to get them through a challenge. So thank you, Charlotte Reznick, for writing a book that is a gift to our family and to the many families my daughter and I serve in our own efforts to promote the health and well-being of parents and children.”
Marti Erickson PhD
A Gem of a Book for Anyone with Children in Their Lives!!!!
“The Power of Your Child’s Imagination is THE guide book for loving and promoting healthy development in children. In it, Dr. Charlotte Reznick shares 9 tools for connecting young people with their inner superpowers. She includes scripts to guide children in wonderful journeys toward health and wellness. The Power of Your Child’s Imagination addresses issues such as sleep difficulty, aches, pains, fears, and bed wetting too! And to top it all off, Dr. Charlotte’s Top Ten List of what kids most want and need from their parents is a manifesto describing the rights of all children, everywhere.”
L.G.
Much Needed Mom Resource
“As we all know, parenting has twists and turns, ups and downs, and highs and lows. When a challenging situation is thrown at us, we often don’t know how to react, what to say, or how to help our little ones cope. Dr. Reznick’s book is an incredible resource for us parents who simply need a little guidance because we’re learning too how to deal with life and all the unexpected hurdles that come with it. Add it to your bookshelf. You’ll be glad you did!”
V. Thornton
vickyandjencom
Innovative, Cutting Edge
“I am a Clinical Social Worker seeing children and adults for 28 years. One of the major problems in overcoming anxiety is that when kids and their parents are overwhelmed they are unable to imagine happy feelings. Dr. Reznick’s materials have cut through the difficulties and allow positive imagery to emerge. With these cutting edge tools, new neural pathways are formed, joy is made possible and for some individuals, their lives are transformed. Thank you for all you do to help children heal.”
Barbara DeSpain LCSW
Inspiring and Practical
“Dr. Reznick offers very inspiring and practical tools you can teach your child or yourself for self-soothing, anger management, and coping with the ups and downs of daily living. What I like most is that she goes directly to how to use the methods and doesn’t waste time like most authors who somehow feel the need to drag readers through 50-100 pages of speculation on the brain’s mechanisms before they (sometimes) deliver the useful tools. Each tool is explained easily and also what to do if it doesn’t work immediately with your particular child. What a gift for all of us who have very creative and very intense children.”
Leonard C. Felder
Empowering Children to Find Solutions for Themselves
“This is a book we all need to read. I started putting some of these techniques into practice the very first day I picked up the book. Last night my 3-year old and I were on the bed with our bellies exposed and toys atop watching our stomachs expand and contract as we did the balloon breath. The 9 tools for imagery and the 10 things children want most from parents should be written in sharpie on every parent’s arm. Please, please, please read this book.”
Leta Hamilton
Every Parent Should Read This Book!
“Finally a book for parents that teaches how to help your child tap into his or her creativity, inner knowing and personal power. Dr. Charlotte Reznick offers wonderful tools for helping children learn how to take responsibility for their own feelings, which is deeply empowering for the child.”
Margaret B. Paul
Author, Inner Bonding
An Essential Book for Every Parent!
“Dr. Reznick provides a great easy reference to help parents empower their kids by helping them to tap into their own internal resources. As a mom of two and an advocate for the holistic health of children, I can’t say enough about the wealth of information that is shared in “The Power of Your Child’s Imagination” from two decades of Dr. Reznick’s research and work with children. Parents can find easy reference to help their children with stress, anger, sleep problems, anxiety or fears in this step-by-step guide. This is a must for every parent’s book shelf!”
Cathi Curen
Invaluable Tools!
“Dr. Reznick’s book has helped both of my children find ways to self-regulate, calm their bodies and prepare for bedtime or whatever potentially stressful event was coming up next. Highly recommend!”
Matt Davidson
Empowerment for Children and Teens
“This is an invaluable book, filled with easy to use tools to empower your child. As soon as I introduced the tools to my 12-year-old daughter, she became engaged and lit up about the power she has inside her to help her in life. She can now dialogue with her inner wisdom. I’m so grateful to Charlotte Reznick for writing such an incredibly empowering book. It’s a blessing to have children know how to use these skills at a young age. I didn’t learn them until I was an adult. I love this book. My daughter now has life skills she can use to give her confidence to make great choices, calm her when she’s stressed, and navigate all the decisions she will have to make as she enters her teen years.”
Beth Greer
Author, Super Natural Home
Groundbreaking and Necessary
“A groundbreaking book that is essential to raising children today. Dr. Reznick has created an easy to read and understand approach to helping children with issues that not that long ago only were considered adult situations. She is an excellent speaker and provides the necessary tools to make parenting, the most difficult job on the planet, a whole lot easier. Kudos to Dr. Reznick for this wonderful tool for anyone who has a child in their life!”
T. Love RMT, CST
Energy Awareness Radio
The Cave of Great Wisdom CD
“For those days when we feel frazzled or unsure, or just lack the energy to deal with the ins and outs of parenting, how wonderful to have at hand Dr. Reznick’s new CD of guided Imagery for parents!”
Fania Chazen, LCSW, Imagery International
“Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick’s book. Joy, success . . . and health and happiness are just around the corner!”
Harvey Karp, MD, FAAP, creator of the book & DVD The Happiest Toddler on the Block
Notes on How to Listen
The Cave of Great Wisdom CD
Imagining how busy you are, it’s great if you can listen to this CD all the way through the first few times. Then you might move directly to where the meditations start and skip the Encouraging Words (unless of course, you’d appreciate the reminder). When you just have 5 minutes, listening to the heart-centered and heart-opening meditation, Heart-Centered Breathing, can bring benefits in a short time. If you can possibly spare 12 more minutes, please follow with The Cave of Great Wisdom for the appreciation and developing intuition that will offer significant support.