Healing from Trauma & Abuse

It happens in every kind of family, no matter what we’d like to believe. Girls and boys are sexually abused by adults in their households. Women and men are battered by their spouses. Even if our homes are loving and safe, many of us have experienced violence and trauma in settings too numerous to list. To begin to heal, we must create space for people to tell their stories—and we must listen without turning away. 

Latest Rituals

“Please give me the strength to care for this parent in their suffering”

hands on top of hands

“there are ones / who loved us / before we were us”

Yizkor: For a Family Member You Love in an Estranged Family You Love No Longer

Finding joy in physical pleasure

An Intention Upon One’s First Shame-Free Orgasm

“We come to drink / Sacred waters”

This Well of Healing

“God, help me renew my strength”

God, Help Me
When We Hurt
Estrangement Prayer

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah

In this study of the Zohar, Rabbi Margie Jacobs will guide you in exploring the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing. Four sessions starting May 7, 2024. 

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