Words are Medicine

This is a wonderful comment from Victoria B on an article about Verbal First Aid (title above) on Huffingtonpost. There has been such a resounding "YES" on every piece I've written about Verbal First Aid and it's been truly gratifying. Thank you, Victoria, and all of you who have written to say, "Finally…a how-to manual for kids!"

I'm back to say a few, I hope, more-cogent words after watching your video for Words Are Medicine. I was traumatized during an unnecessary hospitalization when I was a toddler, seriously traumatized, won't go into it but the classic symptoms emerged and have troubled me all my life. As a result, I have pursued alternative health and healing practices since I was old enough to understand the difference, and I've been able to heal a lot of trauma.

What I want to say is that your understanding of the power of the words that medical personnel say, and the way they touch the patients under their care, is what I have been trying to get people to understand for most of my life. I'm going to find your publications and study them so that I can do more healing of myself, and so that I can feel confident in my own ability to be appropriate with others in crisis.

I can say as a person deeply wounded by the very pitfalls you describe that this information is essential to effective person-hood, not just for parenting or for first responders. Also crucial is the point you make that we tend to replicate what we were given, so it's really important for us to study and grow beyond that, otherwise we are just reenacting and recreating the insufficiencies. Thank you so much for publishing here on HP, I'm so happy to know about this research.

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