Verbal First Aid
On Real Parenting
September 21, 2010 | 
Author This is meant for all parents who need just that small amount of recognition and encouragement to really help their children.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-acosta-lisw-cht/limit-setting-and-parenti_b_682565.html
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Verbal First Aid in the Real World
I got this lovely letter from a reader at the Huffington Post, who has graciously given permission to reprint it here. 
Hi Jude,
Your point about children tending to "interpret things literally, think magically, and respond viscerally" to heal right away, I observed when my daughter, known then as the "Little Princess", crawled atop a chair and "unintentionally" dove into the edge of a coffee table. Contact point: right eyebrow, which accommodated her explosion of kinetic energy with a half inch gash.
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Leading With Love and Verbal First Aid for Children
I wrote this article a while back, but the time has come to share what I've learned from my dogs and how it applies to Verbal First Aid with children. Yes, in so many ways, they have been my greatest teachers: presence, consistency, and the demands made on me have been challenges that have changed my life and my practice.
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Verbal First Aid: Healing Children's Pain and Fear With Words
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!"
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Verbal First Aid Whoops and Proof.
My coauthor just sent me this story from a hypnotherapist in Alabama who used Verbal First Aid in a random emergency.
Verbal First Aid Emergencies
Ladies and Gentlemen, you just never know.
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Modern Medicine: Healing or Stealing?
About a year ago I heard a sermon about two brothers, Cosmas and Damian, both of whom were doctors.  Trained in Syria they practiced as physicians in the seaport Ægea, now Ayash, on the Gulf of Iskandrun in Cilica.
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Risk Management and Verbal First Aid
What Corporations Can Do to Protect Themselves and Their Employees
Within the last several years, particularly since 9/11 and the inception of a broad-reaching emphasis on national security, the American workplace has changed. Where at one time there was free and open intercourse, there are now multiple gateways prior to access–technological, social, and physical. Getting into a secured building requires the emptying of pockets and purses, the removal of shoes, and a sometimes more personal inspection. With that security–which is by its nature is based in the experience of fear–comes an increase in general anxiety. People are generally more hypervigilant–readier to perceive danger, more high strung, and more sensitive.
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Life Is A Reality Show
TV Producers Badly in Need of Verbal First Aid
A young relative of mine is involved in a relationship that has been making her feel like a dramatic vehicle in a bad TV series. Every talk we've had about it has involved a long series of "he-said, she-said" revelations and rarely, if ever, have her conversations involved direct, open communication with the significant other.
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Verbal First Aid and Attachment
Verbal First Aid and Childhood Survival
Babies come into the world crying, cooing and clinging. They need–food, warmth, love, and safety. They do not come to us with the ability to give much beyond their own need for us. They don't come into the world with the capacity to calm themselves down or self-soothe. They don't come complete with the ability to self-regulate or work out problems.
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Kid Whispering!
Teaching Children Safety With Verbal First Aid
According to a growing number of experts, a human's need–and search–for safety starts at conception. Studies have shown that mothers who do not want or are overwhelmed by their pregnancies induce the production of stress hormones in their newly forming babies.
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