“Hope is being able to see the light despite all the darkness.” - Desmond Tutu

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.” - Rachel Naomi Remen

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/...tter/20221220212435/

or this - http://newsletters.survivingsp...er_December_2022.pdf

Newsletter Contents:

1] Why “Toxic Positivity” Isn’t Positivity at All by Sasha Heinz, Ph.D., MAPP @ Psychology Today

2] Neuroscientists Say Multitasking Literally Drains the Energy Reserves of Your Brain by Olivia Goldhill

3] How the "Mental Illness" Label Helps and Hurts by Sarah An Myers @ Psychology Today

3a] Living As An Outlier & Insights into schizophrenia.

4] A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems (second edition) by John Read and Pete Sanders - PCCS Books

4a] PCCS Books is an independent mental health publisher.

5] The Psychology of Parts: Dissociation, IFS, and the Multiple Yous Inside Your Head by Niall McKeever @ The Weekend University

5a] Internal Family Systems: An Accessible Introduction

5b] The Weekend University

6] From homeless to city hall: the Hmong American mayor making history in Oakland by Maanvi Singh @ The Guardian

7] A Brief But Spectacular take the narrative about people who commit violent crimes – YouTube

7a] UnCommon Law - Justice Done Differently.

8] Why most men don't have enough close friends by Madeline Holcombe @ CNN

9] What It’s Like to Live with Childhood Trauma – YouTube

9a] Get access to hundreds of LIVE workshops with the MedCircle psychologists & psychiatrists

10] Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literature, and Art from Vernon Press

10a] Madwomen in the Attic

10b] National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference Presentation 2022 - Madwomen & Social Justice – YouTube

11] Get Reading: This Is How Books Can Impact Your Mental Health by Christina Quaine

12] 3 Unmet Basic Needs and Their Effects on Our Relationships by Annie Tanasugarn, Ph.D., @ Psychology Today

12a] Understanding PTSD by Annie Tanasugarn, Ph.D. @ Psychology Today

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” - Fred Rogers

“Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” - Laura Davis