Bright Concepts

This delightful story provides an enticing backdrop for exploring the emotions of grief: sadness, fear and confusion. It also offers a joyful perspective on the concepts of death, heaven, God and angels. An excellent resource for helping children understand the experience of losing a loved one.

Kathie Martin Ossege

Editor, Whole Living Journal

What a gift. Dreamtime invites children, in their own way, to ask for and explore their own dreams. Its simplicity effortlessly opens my heart wider to that place children know so well, and go to so well: the imaginative world of wonder and innocence. Dreamland resides here, too. How beautiful to help children understand and deal with the death of loved ones in such a manner.

Noreen Wessling, 7 Arts Studio

Facilitator, Pines Dream Sharers, since 1992

Member, Council of Advisors, Dream Network

What Experts are Saying

In my opinion, with Midnight Dream and Daydream Heidi Bright Parales provide a much needed and engaging portrayal of the way nightmares appear in the sleep of children. Her story sensitively captures the experience of unsettling dreams and the ways caregivers can hopefully respond to the children who have them. This wonderful story conveys within itself the manner in which even the scariest of dreams can become a pathway for new understanding between children and their caregivers.

Her note for the parent at the end of this story offers especially concise, practical and sound suggestions for helping children understand and manage the initially disturbing experience of a nightmare.

Richard J. Sweeney, Ph.D., L. PCC

Jungian Psychoanalyst, Columbus, Ohio

Heidi Bright Parales has written a wonderful book for children. It is the first children’s book that uses the Imago process to help children deal with their fears and to assist parents to use the dialogue process to help their children. She effectively shows how the use of the Imago process assisted the child through her process and helped the parent and child stay emotionally connected. I recommend her book to all parents.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.

Co-author with Helen LaKelly Hunt,

Giving the Love that Heals:

A Guide for Parents