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 - https://www.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2024-11-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_November_2024.pdf or this - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20241118182856/ Newsletter Contents : 1] ‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations...

Dancing with Fear …and not letting it lead Welcome back, friends. For those new to my blogs, I share stories from my life as seen through the lens of one who survived adversity as a young person and adult. I grew up in an environment ripe with physical violence, emotional neglect and abuse, sexual abuse, addiction, and caregivers with untreated mental health disorders. I share these stories to open wide the door of silence and shame; and, hopefully reach someone who needs to be seen, heard,...

Michael J. Menard’s fascinating book recounts how fourteen children faced uncommon challenges. Yet most of them found the way to overcome their struggles and thrive.

Music & Thoughts To Share - Walk With Me by Michael Skinner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5WMypXDn8 “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” - Martin Luther. “The role of the artist is to transmit to humanity the deepest experience of reality. Art is remembrance. It is love.” - Kathleen Mundy “Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end.” Author unknown.