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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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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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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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 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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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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For a full article on ways to help your children through grief and loss, go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-acosta-lisw-cht/death-and-dying-talking-t_b_621011.html
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Passengers on a Train – A Study in Cultural Narcissism
While traveling north on the railroad from New York City, we were seated comfortably by a window seat watching the east river slowly move past us back out to sea.
More on The Need for Verbal First Aid Principles in Ordinary Life
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Verbal First Aid as an Attachment Aid
Babies come into the world crying, cooing and clinging. They need—food, warmth, love, and safety.
They are born with the innate capacity to feel fully, scream for us, hold onto us.
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In a radio interview this past weekend with Mimi Stoneburner at KTIP-AM, we got to the topic of dogs as we discussed Verbal First Aid. We were on the topic of leadership and how Verbal First Aid helps parents develop rapport so they can give their children therapeutic suggestion to help them stay calm and heal faster.
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