How To Give a Bracha
My friend had the wisest observation: why do some people’s brachos feel uncomfortable and cringey, and others’ are warm and appreciated?
Author: A Friend
Counting Dates
A friend was talking to me about feeling pressure to get a relationship to progress after X number of dates (and did Zoom dates count for the tally?). An analogy came to mind: “Counting dates is like counting
Miracle Stories
Do they give you chizuk?
Eight Years!
And over eight hundred posts.
Can You Name My Private Practice?
I need your help! I have to set up a Google Workspace account for my private practice and to do that I need a domain name and I don’t know what to call my practice!
Goals Update: January
I was thinking I’d do a mid-year check-in for my list of 25 for 2025 but honestly I’d like to keep the list on my radar and will probably forget I ever wrote it if I wait until July to check in, so here is the first of my hopefully monthly updates.
Femifesting
In her book The Well-Lived Life, Dr. Gladys McGarey suggests a counterpart to the concept of manifesting:
Time Vs. Things
I recently saw an interesting, though not completely surprising, study that found that spending money to
More Tefillos
Over Shabbos, I skimmed through a stack of Family First magazines that my sister brought over recently. In the erev Rosh Hashanah edition, there was a feature on tefillah. I was struck by the following excerpt from a Q & A with Mrs. Mindy Hilewitz:
Beneath the Blah
Recently I’ve been feeling pretty blah — I don’t have a clinical term for it.