/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter August 2022* Hi folks, Welcome to the August Edition of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter. I created these two music videos for the _International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference_ - /Uniting the glo ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2022* *Newsletter Contents*: 1] What Happens When We Reconnect With Nature By Rochelle Calvert @ Mindful 2] 10 Health Benefits of Drumming - The Health Benefits of Beating Your Own Drum by Christiane Northru ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2022* “/You might make people uncomfortable, even those you love them most and it will hurt./ /The masses will likely misunderstand you and as a result they will judge you and even lash out at you and you ma ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter May 2022* Hi Folks, The month of May recognizes Mental Health Awareness and National Trauma Awareness - very cool. On that note, I'd like to share a few resources that I had the honor of participating with that a ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter April 2022* Hi folks, Some thoughts about the month of April – it is _National Child Abuse Prevention Month_, _Sexual Assault Awareness Month_ and _National Poetry Month_. I'd like to share a few things that I w ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter March 2022* *Newsletter Contents*: 1] On Loving Another Person – Hope Works Community - Larry Drain 2] RAMPD - Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities 3] Adverse Childhood Experiences, the Bra ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2022* Hi Folks, Welcome to the February Surviving Spirit Newsletter Three key points of interest for February are: [*] _Black History Month_ (United States and Canada) [*] _LGBT History Month_ (Unite ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter* _The Healing Power of Music by Michael Skinner_ @ _The Lamplighter Movement_ “/*Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” – Debasish Mridha*/ Music has a profound way of touching us in so many ways ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter October 2021* “Don't Quit” by John Whittier When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but yo ...Continue Reading

/Healing the //Mind, Body & Spirit / / Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter September 2021* Hi Folks, Twenty years ago today at this time of the morning I was getting ready to leave for Ellenville, New York to perform and speak at the Annual New York Association of Psychiatric Reha ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter August 2021* Hi Folks, Welcome to the month of August...from my part of the country here in New Hampshire-land it is a time of summer and heat...but the whole month of July and coming into August has been more like a monsoon seaso ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2021* Hi folks, June is _NATIONAL PTSD AWARENESS MONTH_ I thought I would share a few of the resources that have helped me in my healing journey. Despite the many years I have dedicated myself to learning all that I can about ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter May 2021* Hi folks, Greetings from New Hampshire....spring has arrived and the weather has been all over the place – it is nice to see flowers, shrubs and trees in bloom. I found joy, wonder and magic with nature as a child. It he ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter April 2021* Hi folks, April is National Child Abuse, Sexual Assault Awareness and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Month. This is a song of mine I wrote many years ago to all the survivors of childhood abuse-past and present. You ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter March 2021* Hi Folks, Spring is here and that has brought some much-needed energy and hope for new beginnings after this very long winter of Covid 19 and all that it entails. I hope we are starting to see daylight at the end of th ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2021* *Newsletter Contents*: 1] Never Feel Good Enough? How to Find Your Self-Confidence by Jennice Vilhauer Ph.D. @ Psychology Today 1a] Living Forward Getting to recovery and wellness – More articles by Jennice Vilhauer ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter January 2021* “/May 2021 bring everyone Joy - Peace - Hope - Love - Good Health - Renewed Faith - Inclusiveness - Empathy - Understanding - Kindness - Acceptance - in a Safer World. May we spend more time & energy celebrating ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter December 2020* Hi Folks, Hoping this finds you well and safe. Wow, coming to the end of a very challenging year...I do hope that 2021 brings forth healing and hope for all of us. Life can be hard, a pandemic certainly makes it wor ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter November 2020* Hi Folks, Hard to believe that we're in the final days of 2020...Truly has been a tumultuous time for all of us. I do hold out hope for the new year. At the very least getting a handle on the pandemic that has been ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter October 2020* *Newsletter Contents*: 1] Beauty 2 The Streetz: This woman is beautifying Skid Row one makeover at a time by Alicia Lee 2] Surviving Childhood Adversity Builds Empathy in Adults by David Ley, Ph.D., Psychology Today ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter August 2020* Hi Folks, I hope this finds you safe and well in these trying times...It is stressful, but I am encouraged by the amount of people out there doing good things to help others in times of need. If I only paid attention ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2020* Hi Folks, These are trying times for so many, I hope that you are finding some ways to have peace in your life despite the uncertainty due to this health crisis. The things that sustained me in my youth, music, nature, ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2020* *Newsletter Contents*: 1] I desperately miss human touch. Science may explain why. By Diana Spechler, a novelist and essayist @ The Guardian 2] Neuroscience Says Doing This 1 Thing Makes You Just as Happy as Eating 2,00 ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter May 2020* Hi Folks, Hoping all is well for you in your world during these trying times...no complaints here. Well, maybe one, what happened to the weather here in New Hampshire land? My heat has been running in MAY!! Yikes...flann ...Continue Reading

/Healing the Heart Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy / Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “/Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.// // Kahlil Gibran/ *The Surviving Spirit Newsletter April 2020* Hi Folks, Obviously we are all experiencing some very trying times and this makes it hard for so many to be with others. Truly a time that we all need the healing power of human connection. Social distancing makes tha ...Continue Reading