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Healing from Trauma & Abuse

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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

No is the one who left the building 

 
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We mustn’t ever forget our tears

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Praise that comes after pain

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We are all together walking home, on the road of teshuva

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As we prepare to trace the world’s beginnings, may we choose life

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A poem for embracing chosen family

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Traditional blessings for mikveh immersion

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“I give you the love you could not give me”

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Meditations to treat our bodies as sacred

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