Let it be! This is the message being shouted at me as I reflect on my experience with “The Great American Eclipse” on April 8, 2024. I first heard about the eclipse at some point during the fall of 2023. Having witnessed totality back in 2017 I was eager...
Have you ever been going about your business, putting away groceries or brushing your teeth or something, and found yourself suddenly crying? Or lying in bed at night struggling to fall asleep because you’re experiencing overwhelming anxiety? Have you found...
I could feel her pain as if it were my own, and it was excruciating. An ocean of sorrow crashed against me, inside my body. I wailed and wept, utterly overwhelmed by the intensity of emotions. I saw blood. A miscarriage. I felt the mother’s grief. She was a...
What was your favorite toy as a child? Mine was Barbie, without question. I had a ridiculous number of them and pretty much never wanted to play with anything else. Sometimes I played with my sister, but mostly I enjoyed playing alone. I enjoyed traveling deep into...
When was the last time you exercised your soul? Health and wellness tends to be compartmentalized but we can’t really isolate any aspect of wellbeing. We’re whole beings with complex, interactive systems. In recent years, there’s been a growing...
In middle school, I kept a scrapbook of all of the Bar and Bat Mitvahs I attended, which included fancy invitations, napkins and photographs. As a Jewish kid attending a Jewish school, I was invited to a lot of these events. Though I never had a Bat Mitzvah myself...
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