The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter – Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out – It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe –
http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20250422211614/
or this – https://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2025-04-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_April_2025.pdf
Newsletter Contents:
1] SurvivorSpace – A Safe Place for Survivors of Sexual Abuse to Heal
2] Leave the hurt behind! How to let go of a grudge by Emine Saner @ The Guardian
3] Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth a book by Joanna Moncrief
3a] “Chemically Imbalanced”: A Book Review by Christopher Lane Ph.D. @ Psychology Today
4] Braver Collective – By, With, and For Survivors of Sexual Trauma
a] Survivor Advisory Committee Members (Reflectors) Job Description
b] Survivor Stories – Submit Your Story
5] Voices for the Voiceless Advocacy Documentary @ YouTube
6] Vesper Moore – Vesper Moore, Indigenous activist and leader.
7] Art for Advocacy: Resilience in Bloom –Call for submission – Zero Abuse Project
8] New research reports lack of co-ordinated support for sexual abuse victims – University of Suffolk
9] Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Hidden Blessing in Life’s Struggles by Waleuska Lazo
10] Revictimized by the System: How Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, and Courts Fail Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse by Luke Wiersma @ Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse (SCSA)
11] The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025 – Survivorship.Org
12] Health systems using ‘Zero Suicide Model’ see fewer attempts by Carla K. Johnson @ AP News
13] A Trauma History Is No Excuse for Abuse by Kaytee Gillis, LCSW @ Psychology Today
14] Exiles in New York City – A Haunting, Necessary Chronicle of the Forgotten By Dan Frey @ City
Voices
a] Exiles in New York City – Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island by Phillip Yanos Columbia University Press
“You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.” – August Wilson
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” Eleanor Roosevelt.
