July 2023

Kaz Fantone/NPR To read more of Keisha "TK" Dutes' article, please click here. For Life Kit, I spoke with my friend Alexander Hardy – a writer and co-founder of a creative wellness agency – about how to cope with pet loss. Hardy, who is also grieving his family dog, Papi, explores how to express, process, and share the grief of losing a beloved pet. On celebrating your pet's life What are the lessons that your pet taught you? I'm sure they taught you a lot of things about taking care of...

Photo by Frans Lemmens / Alamy Stock Photo. To read more of Benjamin Mui Pumphrey's article, please click here. Sitting and watching, sitting and watching. The similarities between birding and Buddhist meditation are startling. In meditation, we watch our thoughts arise then let them settle. We meditate in stillness because movement stirs up thoughts like warm air adds energy to kettling birds. More thoughts inevitably arise, because thinking is what brains do, and we let those streaming...

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/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230724161930/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-07-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_July_2023.pdf “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran Contents List :...