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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/20231022172231/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-10-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_October_2023.pdf The Surviving Spirit Newsletter October 2023 Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education &...

This isn’t your usual article about domestic violence, the one that’s pretty much been repeating itself since the 1980s: that there’s too much of it, the lifelong pain it causes (mostly) women and their children, that there’s not nearly enough support for them. All that is true. This article focuses on a remarkable solution to family violence: Programs that expand the focus on healing to the abuser.

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, John Friedman NBER Working Paper NO. 31492 July 2023 Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families — increase the socioeconomic diversity of America’s leaders by...

By Carly Mellenbaum, Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios, Axios, Ocotober 23, 2023 A new, more expansive definition of " infertility " could lead to more help for hopeful LGBTQ+ or single parents. Why it matters: The decision by an influential organization of reproductive health providers to redefine the condition could lead to broader insurance coverage of fertility services like egg freezing and in vitro fertilization for all people who need help starting families — not just those in...

Jacqueline Herrera struggled to pay $120 a week in fees for classes and counseling so that her kids wouldn’t end up in foster care. “Without support, the whole thing feels more like a punishment than a helping hand,” she said. Photo by Jeremy Loudenback By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, October 18, 2023 The cost of drug treatment, anger management sessions and counseling has long been the responsibility of parents accused of child maltreatment in California’s most populous county. The...

Study: Social media and e-cigarette use: The mediating role of mental health conditions. Image Credit: Diego Cervo / Shutterstock By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, News Medical & Life Sciences, October 17, 2023 In a recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders , researchers from Pennsylvania investigated the role of indicators of mental health conditions in the relationship between the use of social media and e-cigarette use among the youth. They found that the symptoms of...

A girl tries to collect usable belongings amid the wreckage of vehicles after the explosion at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images By Linah Mohammad, National Public Radio (NPR), October 19, 2023 When Fidaa Al-Araj received the pre-recorded message last week telling her to evacuate her home because the area was about to be bombed, she first thought of her children. To her surprise, they had actually beaten her to the street. The day before, an Israeli...

By Flora Jin, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, October 17, 2023 Have you ever felt motivated to improve your own happiness—but had trouble finding practices for doing so? To help people find what can work for them, we at the Greater Good Science Center created a four-week interactive program on our Greater Good in Action (GGIA) website called the Pathway to Happiness (P2H)—and we invited the Greater Good community to try it out. Upon enrolling, P2H invites people to fill out a...

Sleep is necessary to thrive on a day-to-day basis. I have researched the basis of what sleeping patterns truly mean and how they correlate to individual personality traits. There are six distinctive sleeping patterns that individuals conform to. The initial position is the fetal position, in which individuals lay on their side in a curved position. This position is widely known to most sleepers, and reveals an extensive emotional state of anxiousness (Summers & Bagot as cited in The...

Follow The Light by Michael Skinner - A song addressing the loss of those we love to suicide...lyrics & resources shared below the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkvW6sQ0SXQ&lc=UgxkYReNZA6Y6zRw3OB4AaABAg

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer-consultant who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. The position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply on the TSI Careers Page

Presented by Clifford Beers Community Care Center, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and KPJR Films, Healing the Generations is a two-day conference which brings together trauma-informed authors, leaders, and changemakers whose work focuses on resilience, trauma, and anti-racism. REGISTER HERE Collectively, we recognize the health implications that grief, loss, political unrest, and racial trauma have on the human body. We are convinced that in our families, communities, and ancestors,...