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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran

 

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2024

 

Hi folks,

 

There were server issues that impacted my sending the July Newsletter. It never was delivered. So I'm re-sharing the two links to read it online and the Newsletter Contents List. Hopefully all will be resolved and this will arrive.

 

https://www.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2024-07-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_July_2024.pdf

 

or

 

http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20240723222246/

 

 

And here's a recent article I was involved with:

Q&A with Mike Skinner, advocate for survivors of childhood abuse - https://manchester.inklink.news/qa-with-mike-skinner-advocate-for-survivors-of-childhood-abuse/

Take care, Michael Skinner

 

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein

 

Newsletter Contents:

 

1] The Unbearable Lightness: Loneliness, Onlyness, One-liness by Mikele Rauch, LMFT @ Taking Back Ourselves

 

2] A bench and a grandmother's ear: Zimbabwe’s novel mental health therapy spreads overseas by Farai Mutsaka @ AP News

 

3] Overcoming stigma as an academic with schizophrenia by Nev Jones @ Public Source-Community Storytelling

 

4] A Compelling Memoir About Schizophrenia by Claire Wilcox M.D. @ Psychology Today - Book Review: “The Edge of Every Day” by Marin Sardy

 

5] Fighting stigma by mental health providers toward patients by Tori Deangelis @ American Psychological Association

 

6] Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims by Ivana Kottasová and Olga Voitovych @ CNN

 

6a] Ukrainian author turned soldier Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘This is not Putin’s war. This is a war waged by the whole Russian nation’ by Charlotte Higgins @ The Guardian - Journalism books

 

7] How to navigate caring for an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability by Keren Landman, MD @ Vox

 

8] Altered States of the Arts – Arts and history of the Psychiatric Survivor movement

 

9] Peer-Run Respite Approaches to Supporting People Experiencing an Emotional Crisis by Lauren Spiro, M.A., and Margaret Swarbrick, Ph.D., F.A.O.T.A. @ Psychiatry Online - Lived Experience Inclusion & Leadership

 

10] Rochester high schoolers form a club to help their peers amid mental health struggles by Jackie Harris@ New Hampshire Public Radio [audio link posted at the website]

 

11] The loneliness trap: it is as bad as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. So will it shorten my lifespan? by Phil Daoust @ The Guardian

 

12] 8 homeless moms in San Francisco struggled for help. Now, they're learning to advocate for others

by Jane Har @ AP News

 

13] Mama Bears Documentary - Independent Lens

 

14] Surviving Atrocities at a Mental Institution @ YouTube

 

14a] The Chair and the Valley by Banning Lyon - Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors

 

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” - Bertrand Russell

 

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

Thank you & Take care, Michael

 

PS. Please share this with your friends & if you have received this in error, please let me know – mikeskinner@PROTECTED

 

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