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/20241218122142/

or this -

https://www.survivingspirit.co...er_December_2024.pdf

“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.” – Frank Warren

Newsletter Contents:

1] Better Because Collective - Stories of Hope

2] Bullying Hurts Your Health. Kindness Boosts It by Jennifer Fraser Ph.D. @ Psychology Today

2a] Does childhood bullying have long term impacts? - Jennifer Fraser @ TEDxLangaraCollege YouTube

2b] Book - The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health: Fraser Ph.D, Jennifer

3] Being Alone Is Actually Sometimes BETTER For You: Combating Loneliness This Holiday Season with Art Therapy by Carey MacCarthy @ LinkedIn

3b] Start Up! Art Therapy - download free E-Workbook - “Starting Your Trauma Recovery Journey” Create your healing blueprint.

4] Male Depression: The Hidden Signs You’re Missing - YouTube

4a] Book - Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press): by Terrence Real (Author), Bruce Springsteen (Foreword)

5] Jasmine Marie Wants to Use Breathwork to Help 1 Million Black Women Deal With Trauma by Ashley Simpson @ Harper's Bazaar/Pocket

6] Stop Institutional Child Abuse, Troubled Teen Industry

7] Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived By Martha Barbone @ Mad In America

8] East LA arts program gives addicts and ex-cons an escape to a new life - YouTube – PBS Newshour

9] ForLikeMinds - Share Lived Experience and Connect with people like you - living with or supporting someone with mental illness, substance use, or a stressful live even

10] The Anti-Alienation Project - YouTube

11] Cuaderno para recuperar tu salud mental: Una ayuda indispensable para tener una vida estable y significativa (Spanish Edition): by Katherine Ponte (Author), María Laura Saccardo (Translator)

12] Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature @ ScienceDirect

12a] What is Medical PTSD? How Trauma Can Manifest Following Health Treatment by Katie Macbride @ Inverse/Pocket

13] Sing Sing: A Film by A24 and Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA)

14] The Dilemma of Joy by Mikele Rauch @ Taking Back Ourselves

14a] Taking Back Ourselves - We Envision A World Where

14b] Michael Skinner - song - “Joy” - live performance - A song of thanks to all of those in my life

“When we bring things out into the light,they lose their power over us.” - Al-Anon