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/20240527204200/
or this –
https://www.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2024-05-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_May_2024.pdf
“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.” – Cheryl Strayed
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.” – Jonatan Martensson
Newsletter Contents:
1] My Father Had ADHD. I Thought He Didn’t Like Me. It Was Decades Before I Learned The Truth.
By CJ Clouse @ Huffington Post
2] The Internet Has Made Health Anxiety Worse Than Ever By Caroline Crampton @ TIME
3] The Psychological Importance of Wasting Time By Olivia Goldhill @ Quartz
4] Your Kids Don’t Suck: Cultivating Closeness with your Kids through Non-Coercive, Conscious Parenting By Cara Tedstone and Rythea Lee
5] Postpartum depression soared in 2020. Four years later, has anything changed? By Maggie Doherty @ The Guardian
6] Craig J. Phillips “Finding Purpose after Brain Injury” Presentation on Rob Baugh’s “Life Re-Wired — the Brain Injury Podcast” @ Second Chance to Live
7] A new barbershop in Denver is staffed with formerly incarcerated people By Melissa Magsaysay @ CNN
8] Call for Presenters 2024 – Support After a Death by Overdose
9] Study Links Nature’s Diversity to Mental Health By Andrea Mechelli @ Science Alert
10] Poets And Peers – Art & Poetry
11] CBT Patients Want Understanding, Not Homework by José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, PhD @ Mad In America
12] Darkness Visible By John Angelo @ Manchester Ink Link
13] Call For Art – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Office of Recovery is excited to announce the 2024 Art of Recovery project
14] ‘Shame and betrayal’: sexual abuse within the spiritual healing industry comes to light By Edward Helmore @ The Guardian
“But one thing for sure, if you do not address your trauma, it will undress you.” – Sharon Wise
“We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.” – Unknown