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Advance Praise for Verbal First AidTM

You can use Verbal First Aid everywhere: in the streets, in schools, at home. It is therapy of the people. It may help to prevent trauma and it could help children to heal themselves however and wherever they may be.

Helena Guo, MD, chief clinical officer of PsychCN, the largest psychologyinstitute in China, and CCO of the May 15 Soul Care Program forEarthquake Victims; winner, The Most Influential Charity Project of 2008 inChina

Verbal First Aid is far more than a parenting guide. It is a profound prescription drawn from current medical research toward nurturing our children and evolving civilization to the healthiest levels possible!

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, cell biologist and bestselling author ofThe Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

Verbal First Aid is not merely a communication toolit is a developmentally appropriate, child-friendly, and compassionate approach to children. It fo sters supportive relationships between parents and children. When used by parents, it empowers children to master their fears around illness and injury, develop resilience to stress, and participate actively in their own healing. It is an overwhelmingly positive approach that can be invaluable to parents of children with chronic illness, but can also serve healthy children and their families.

Ruby Roy, MD, chronic disease pediatrician at the University of Chicago

As an osteopath and a parent, I find the Verbal First Aid techniques to be invaluable to teach both adults and children how to control and reduce their pain. They are a highly effective, nonpharmaceutical way of relieving discomfort and calming an often stressful situation.

Karen Farrant, BSc (Hons), D.O. London

As parents, we would like to create a perfect world for our children filled with good health, beauty, peace, and lots of fun! But life happens, and our perfect world is shattered. What then? How we cope determines if an event is perceived as a part of life or a catastrophe. This book is a must for parents and health-care workers. It helps to guide their responses to the events in life that are unavoidable. Through the proven techniques of Verbal First Aid and positive reinforcement, a seemingly tragic event can be turned into an experience that is understood and accepted... thus leading to healing in a real and immediate way.

Deborah McCurdy, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, Mattel Childrens Hospital at UCLA

Who knows the possibilities for health and well-being, now and in the future, when we use these communication tools to speak to our children!

Susan Clark, MD, medical director of endocrinology at Childrens Hospital of Orange County

Verbal First Aid is a book that will change the lives of children for the better. It might even save lives. As beautifully written as it is practical, it is, in my opinion, an indispensable book for parents and for all those involved in child care.

Charles Montagu, member of the Board of the British Council for Complementary Therapy

In times of crisis, a childany patientcan hang on your every word; a good doctor should know how to choose the right ones. The golden rule of First do no harm applies to language, too. This book should be compulsory, not only for all parents, but as a text in all medical schools.

Leah Kaminsky, MD, coauthor ofYour Child s Health: The Essential Companion for Every Australian Home

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I dedicate this book to Jennifer Youtt Hatzmann, mother of my four grandchildren and a woman who deserves a black belt in Verbal First Aid. Her example and thoughtfulness resonate throughout the stories herein that bring the techniques to life.

JUDITH SIMON PRAGER

To Dave, the most healing person Ive ever known.

JUDITH ACOSTA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book has been uniquely lived for me in the ongoing blessing of my work with the wonderful parents and children who have allowed me to share their childbirth and child-rearing experiences with them.

Thank you to the new mothers and fathers who attended my Bonding with the Baby Within workshops and whose children amazingly seemed to have bonded with each other as a result of the shared sessions while in utero. Thank you to all the mothers and fathers and children who participated in pregnancy and birthing hypnosis techniques with me, especially Lisa Hills and Kelly Klaus and their son, Owen; Cindy and Bill Coffey and sons Cole and Mason; and Mari Brusseau and Rick Sowers and sons Oliver and Owen. Thank you to Anne Hulegard and Alex Perloff for allowing us to use part of their wonderful healing story. And thank you to the mothers and fathers and children whom Ive adopted as my own over the years, including Inger and John Lanese and their children Illeana and William, and Sarah and Rocky Akin and their children Adara and Oliver.

As I wrote this, I had a growing appreciation for the nurturing beginning that was given to me by my late parents, Al and Pauline Simon. And I am filled with gratitude to my own children, Danielle and Brad Prager, for the rewarding and beautiful opportunity to be their mother. To my step-children, Jennifer Youtt Hatzmann and Jonathan Youtt, and son-in-law George Hatzmann, thank you for your wonderful presence in my life.

And thank you to my four amazing grandchildren, Jack, Tanner, Madeleine, and Isadora, for allowing their parents and me to explore Verbal First Aid with them as our classroom.

I owe a debt of gratitude for their generous encouragement to the many mentors who awakened in me the search for who we truly are and how to best support each other in this process: Bruce Lipton, Donald Trent Jacobs, Ronald Wong Jue, Elmer Green, Larry Dossey, Candace Pert, Charles Montagu, Marilyn Simon, Timothy Trujillo, and Arnold Blume, among many others. Thanks to Corrine Jones and the European School of Osteopathy for welcoming me to share my work in Great Britain. And a note of thanks to Linda Venis of the UCLA Extension Writers Program, who has welcomed my husband and me as instructors and made a creative home for us in her program for more than twenty years.

Thank you to all the many physicians whose support for this book and whose wisdom I so appreciated, including Susan Clark, Ruby Roy, Helena Guo in China, Deborah McCurdy, Bernardine Celoni, Todd Davis, David Springer, Chuck Dumont, Francesca de Picciotto, and Hugh Thompson. And thank you to Kathleen Archibald Simon, RN, HN-BC, for so believing in Verbal First Aid.

Its my pleasure to acknowledge and thank Babette Sparr, the best agent a writer could ever hope for. She has been wonderfully wise, generous in sharing her time and knowledge, kind, available, and supportive, and she held our hand throughout this project. Thank you, as well, to Adrienne Avila, our wonderful editor, who loved our book and whose care showed it. She was thoughtful in all ways, helping us make this book better with each suggestion. We have been blessed to have these extraordinary women on our team.

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