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The Surviving Spirit Newsletter December 2022

 

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

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