Meet Maureen Healy, Author of Growing Happy Kids

Maureen Healy is a practicing child development and parenting expert with twenty years of global experience. She also writes a popular blog for Psychology Today’s website, and for the PBS series: This Emotional Life. Her organization, Growing Happy Kids, is dedicated to planting the seeds of strength and happiness in children worldwide. Maureen’s latest book, Growing Happy Kids: How to Foster Inner Confidence, Success and Happiness, became available in April of 2012.

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 has 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 happiness. She has appeared on ABC’s View from the Bay, CW’s San Diego Living, and NBC’s The 10! Show. Her writing has also appeared in popular magazines such as Spirituality & Health, Tathaastu, and Counselor Magazine as well as notable websites like AOL, WebMD and Huffington Post. She is also a sought 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 educational background, having 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, which is based in Santa Barbara, California, where she focused on child clinical psychology and completed two years of doctoral training. Combining these fortune educational experiences with practical understanding, Maureen is committed to being a force for good on behalf of children everywhere. For more information, please visit http://cmqr.co/Zkkkk5D or www.growinghappykids.com.