Verbal First Aid is a protocol for a language of healing that helps set a trajectory for recovery when people are in fear, pain or crisis. At such times, they slip into fight/flight/or freeze and their autonomic nervous system, that regulates bleeding, breathing, heart and pulse rate, and perception of pain, is open to suggestions. Every word said to them can harm or heal. There are words and ways to say them that can mean the difference between panic and calm, pain and comfort, even life and death.

For speaking to children, our new book, Verbal First Aid: Help Kids Heal From Fear and Pain--And Come Out Strong, can help turn a scare into a comfort, a hurt into a healing and a potential trauma into a memory of courage.

Bruce Lipton said of it, "Verbal First Aid is far more than a parenting guide. It is a profound prescription for nurturing our children and evolving civilization to the healthiest levels possible!"

Children can learn this language, too, through Owie-Cadabra's Verbal First Aid for Kids.

I provide training in Verbal First Aid to hospitals, first responders and others across the United States and around the World.