Owie-Cadabra's Verbal First Aid for Kids: A somewhat magical way to help heal yourself and your friends

When we're in fear, pain, or crisis, words heard and images in our minds send chemicals through our bodies that can harm or heal. What children are thinking and feeling sets a course for their recovery or its opposite. Owie-Cadabra's is a delightful being who teaches children how to use their imaginations to engage the inner mechanisms that can send chemicals of healing throughout their bodies. And once the voice in their heads goes from "awfulizing" (Oh, no I've been injured) to calm (My body knows how to heal itself.; it has before, when I hurt myself...), they can develop a habit of self-healing that will support them through a lifetime of challenges. Parents and those who love children can learn the Verbal First Aid(tm) principles in the new book Verbal First Aid: Help Your Kids Heal From Fear and Pain-And Come Out Strong, by Judith Simon Prager, PhD, and Judith Acosta, LISW, Berkley Books 2010. Bruce Lipton, PhD, best-selling author of Biology of Belief called it "A profound prescription toward nurturing our children and evolving civilization to the healthiest levels possible!" About Owie-Cadabra's Verbal First Aid for Kids, people are saying: "When children learn this language of healing for themselves there is the opportunity for a generation to grow up more emotionally and physically healthy than occurs now, and who knows how much this might change our world!" Susan J. Clark, MD, Director of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Orange County, CA "Owie-Cadabra's Verbal First Aid will change the way children speak to themselves and their friends about crises big and small and help them know they have the ability to support their own healing." Kathleen Archibald Simon, RN HN-BC, Board Member of Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL "If you have a child in your life, run out and buy this book! It's as necessary in every home as a box of band-aids." Award-wining children's book author April Halprin Wayland