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Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical homeopath in private practice in Placitas and Albuquerque. Her areas of specialization include the treatment of anxiety, depression, and trauma. She has appeared on both television and radio and is a regular lecturer throughout the U.S. She is the author of The Next Osama and co-author of the books, Verbal First Aid and The Worst Is Over, which has been dubbed the "bible of crisis communication."

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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 21, 2011
Clingy Children: Signals for Verbal First Aid (2990 views) Our ability to deal with fear as children is the foundation for the way we deal with fear as adults--both for ourselves and with our kids. Most of us were not raised with these ideas and some of them may feel awkward or even seem unnecessary, especially if we ourselves were dismissed when we were afraid or hurt.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 12, 2011
Brains, Babies, and Verbal First Aid (1497 views) When we have rapport and learn the basics of Verbal First Aid, we can take our children from crisis to calm, from pain to comfort. Our relationship with them and the words we use can lead them to a healing response not only in the moment but in the fullness of their entire lives.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 10, 2011
An Alternative to Big Pharm: A Mental Health Journey With Classical Homeopathy (2614 views) The following is a journey through several psychotherapy cases, how they may be seen in a homeopathic framework, and how healing can be enjoyed in a relatively brief period of time.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 1, 2010
Beyond Biofeedback: How Words Can Help Children Heal (2253 views) Children learn who they are in the world via an organic form of biofeedback. Everything we say and do communicates and that communication is received by them not only cognitively but, perhaps more importantly, physiologically and genetically.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 1, 2010
The Inevitability of Healing: Verbal First Aidâ„¢ for Recovery from Surgery and Illness (2306 views) What this means is that the images we hold in our minds, the beliefs we store in the deepest part of ourselves impact the way we heal in an immediate and palpable manner, not only on how we feel emotionally, but on how our cells behave, whether they adapt and grow or become inflexible and decay.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The Vibration That Heals: From Verbal First Aid to the Power of Pure Music (1317 views) The research is being conducted and the evidence is growing rapidly. Sound--not only moves us emotionally, but affects us at a profound, preconscious, cellular level.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Right to Expect? (1254 views) It is, or so we believed, our natural birthright. Birds did it. Bees did it. We did it. Just like that. In fact, most of the women visiting fertility specialists right now were afraid of getting pregnant and, for years, juggled IUD's, diaphragms, condoms, and pills to protect themselves from what they felt would be inevitable if they didn't cover themselves with creams and impermeable membranes.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Leaving the Wilderness Alive: How to Survive The Worst When All You've Got is You. (1651 views) Mental survival-regardless of where a person is, whether that's in the extremes of battle or a backpacking expedition-is often a matter of recalling or being made aware of the resources one already has--particularly words. What we think, we become. Literally.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Gift of Receiving--A Pre-Season Guide To Staying Stress Free (1148 views) Every year at around this time, the advertising starts to remind us that the holidays are closing in. For some, that is a delight. To others, it is a cause for panic.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 13, 2009
PRIMUN NON NOCERE: First Do No Harm (2016 views) Primun non nocere. This is still the sacred promise of every medical school graduate across the country as he or she accepts the diploma, the title and the rank of healer in our culture. It is the core of the Hippocratic Oath. However, in a world of unreasonable speed, in which new discoveries and new pharmaceuticals are being produced in measures of seconds, not years, it may be more than doctors can promise us anymore.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 6, 2009
Holistic Psychotherapy and Hypnosis: The Myth and The Magic (1220 views) Hypnosis and holistic psychotherapy is a far more natural and almost "ordinary" process than we think. In fact, there isn't a day that most of us are not in some kind of trance.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 19, 2009
Words Are Medicine: Raising a Self-Healing Child (2090 views) When you use Verbal First Aid with your children, they are learning by your example to use it for themselves. The healing you facilitate in them by the words you use when they are hurt becomes a self-replenishing well of mental, emotional and physical resources they can draw upon for a lifetime.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 3, 2009
Verbal First Aid(tm) for Survival. (1893 views) What Verbal First Aid(tm) proposes is that words can mean the difference between life and death. Based on the simple notion that the words we say (to ourselves and to one another) do matter, that they affect us both physically and mentally, there are ways to speak that make those words healing, no matter what the situation.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 27, 2009
Holistic Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment (1753 views) What happens in trauma? Why do memories persist the way they do? What options do people have for successful recovery? This article offers a brief overview.

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