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/20240527204200/

or this -

https://www.survivingspirit.co...sletter_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