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/20240227180514/
Newsletter Contents:
1] The Nordic Way to Stop Bullying by David Robson @ BBC News
2] People Who Had Unhappy Childhoods Usually Develop These Traits by Sinead Cafferty @ Bolde
3] Fighting for Recovery by Phyllis Vine – Beacon Press
4] How Arizona’s crisis response network became a model for mental health hotlines – PBS Newshour – YouTube
4a] On Portland streets, recovered drug users offer lifeline to fight fentanyl’s cruel cycle by Noelle Crombie @ The Oregonian/oregonlive.com
5] The Finnish miracle: how the country halved its suicide rate – and saved countless lives by Miranda Bryant @ The Guardian
6] I was an addict, a prisoner, a sex worker. I thought the world had written me off – but I saved myself – Prisons and probation by Ammar Kalia @ The Guardian
6a] How we survive – People who have lived through our greatest fears @ The Guardian
7] Pain travels through families until someone is ready to feel it – YouTube
8] Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover Your Life by author Daniel Fisher
9] I’m a Neurologist. Here’s the One Thing I Do Every Day for My Long-Term Brain Health by Ayana Underwood @ SELF
10] US surgeon general Vivek Murthy: ‘Loneliness is like hunger, a signal we’re lacking something for survival’ by Katherine Rowland @ The Guardian
11] Cultural Silence and Wounded Souls – Black Men and Mental Health – Edited by Mark Tuggle
Foreword by Cleo Manago
12] Creativity and Madness – Continuing Education Conferences – August 1-4, 2024
13] Color to Heal – A Coloring Book of Healing Images for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse By Ellen Lacter, Ph.D. Illustrated by Robin Baird Lewis and Jen Callow
14] Anti-crime laws in Minnesota harmed people with mental illness, DOJ says by John Hanna @ AP News
“It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place.” – David Hume
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” – Marcel Proust
