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The Surviving Spirit Newsletter March 2021

March 25, 2021 by Michael Skinner

Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy

Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran

The latest edition of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter is posted at the website – http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/index.php

 

or here’s the PDF – http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2021-03-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_March_2021.pdf

To sign up for an e-mail copy, please write to me @ mikeskinner@comcast.net or sign up @ Website via Contact Us, Thanks! Michael.

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter March 2021

Hi Folks,

Spring is here and that has brought some much-needed energy and hope for new beginnings after this very long winter of Covid 19 and all that it entails. I hope we are starting to see daylight at the end of this tunnel.

I was grateful to be a part of a Survivor Stories event hosted by Michael Broussard of Ask a Survivor. I’m performing two songs of mine and sharing the back story about their creation – “Songs For The Keys To Your Life”and “When Your Heart Follows A Lie”…

Survivor Stories with Michael Skinner – YouTube 21:15 minutes

Thank you for allowing me to share this month’s newsletter with you.

Newsletter Contents:

1] Roxane Gay on How to Write About Trauma By Monica Lewinsky @ Vanity Fair

1a] Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

2] Why Sound Heals By Christina Sarich @ Uplift

2a] UPLIFT – We Are One – inspired by unity, peace and love. Embracing who we truly are

3] Holding a partner’s hand while processing painful memories can weaken the lasting effects of emotional pain by Beth Ellwood

3a] PsyPost – PsyPost is a psychology and neuroscience news website dedicated to reporting the latest research on human behavior, cognition, and society.

4] Why Men Resist Going to Therapy, And Why We Shouldn’t by Sam Blum @ Lifehacker

4a] Lifehacker – Do everything better

5] Northern Wildflower by Catherine Lafferty @ Fernwood Publishing

5a] “We should be coming out and staking our claim” An Indigenous woman on reclaiming her land, identity in Yellowknife | PBS NewsHour Weekend – video

6] HUG ME Ink – a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advocate and educate on mental health awareness through the arts will be publishing, PEER INK: A Magazine for Peers by Peers

7] Men’s Story Project Story Project Events ~ MenHealing

7a] Help for Male Survivors of Sexual Assault & Abuse ~ MenHealing healing workshops for men, age 18 and older, who have experienced sexual abuse or sexual assault as a child and/or as an adult.

8] It’s Ok That You’re Not Okay by Megan Divine – Refuge In Grief – Some things cannot be fixed. But they can be carried.

8a] Grief Doesn’t Have Five Stages by Suchandrika Chakrabarti @ The Outline

8b] The Outline is a new kind of publication founded by journalists and storytellers. We want to help you understand the world better, feed your curiosity, challenge your assumptions

9] How Your Diet Affects Your Mental Health by Michael Easter

10] Brain fog is a real thing. Well-being columnist Jennifer Moss sheds some light on it – CBC News

11] Our Stories Matter: Call for Proposals and Submissions of Prose, Poetry, Art, and Music – Hearing Voices Network USA

12] Stages of Healing By Eli Weintraub Maurx, Author/Artist – Weave Inspiration On Every Horizon

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

Filed Under: Articles, News Tagged With: creative arts healing, healing trauma, mental health, music healing, post traumatic stress, resiliency

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