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/20241218122142/
or this –
https://www.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2024-12-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_December_2024.pdf
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.” – Frank Warren
Newsletter Contents:
1] Better Because Collective – Stories of Hope
2] Bullying Hurts Your Health. Kindness Boosts It by Jennifer Fraser Ph.D. @ Psychology Today
2a] Does childhood bullying have long term impacts? – Jennifer Fraser @ TEDxLangaraCollege YouTube
2b] Book – The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health: Fraser Ph.D, Jennifer
3] Being Alone Is Actually Sometimes BETTER For You: Combating Loneliness This Holiday Season with Art Therapy by Carey MacCarthy @ LinkedIn
3b] Start Up! Art Therapy – download free E-Workbook – “Starting Your Trauma Recovery Journey” Create your healing blueprint.
4] Male Depression: The Hidden Signs You’re Missing – YouTube
4a] Book – Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press): by Terrence Real (Author), Bruce Springsteen (Foreword)
5] Jasmine Marie Wants to Use Breathwork to Help 1 Million Black Women Deal With Trauma by Ashley Simpson @ Harper’s Bazaar/Pocket
6] Stop Institutional Child Abuse, Troubled Teen Industry
7] Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived By Martha Barbone @ Mad In America
8] East LA arts program gives addicts and ex-cons an escape to a new life – YouTube – PBS Newshour
9] ForLikeMinds – Share Lived Experience and Connect with people like you – living with or supporting someone with mental illness, substance use, or a stressful live even
10] The Anti-Alienation Project – YouTube
11] Cuaderno para recuperar tu salud mental: Una ayuda indispensable para tener una vida estable y significativa (Spanish Edition): by Katherine Ponte (Author), María Laura Saccardo (Translator)
12] Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature @ ScienceDirect
12a] What is Medical PTSD? How Trauma Can Manifest Following Health Treatment by Katie Macbride @ Inverse/Pocket
13] Sing Sing: A Film by A24 and Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA)
14] The Dilemma of Joy by Mikele Rauch @ Taking Back Ourselves
14a] Taking Back Ourselves – We Envision A World Where
14b] Michael Skinner – song – “Joy” – live performance – A song of thanks to all of those in my life
“When we bring things out into the light,they lose their power over us.” – Al-Anon
