Mental Health

The Traveling Husband

Photo: Orna Wachman For 16 years, my life has followed a rhythm. Every other week, after havdala, my [...]

In The Eden Center’s course for mikveh attendant we teach about postpartum depression. Dr. Efrat Orlion, a clincal social worker [...]

The invention of ‘the pill’ gifted women with the ability to reliably prevent pregnancy and provide for themselves and their [...]

Photo: Chris Liu, Unsplash I was 14 . I woke up one Shabbat morning doubled over in excruciating [...]

Taught by medical professionals, halakhic experts, and sex educators, this course covers multiple elements of [...]

In Parshat Tetzaveh, the Torah gives extensive description about the clothing that the High Preist needed for doing the service [...]

It was a simple phone call, asking for money to fund the upkeep of the local mikveh, an annual phone [...]

In a previous blog post, I wrote openly about my complicated relationship with my body, without any accessories or clothes [...]

What does losing weight mean to you? All my life it meant getting rid of the grotesque fat and revealing [...]

The issue of eating disorders is something that many women struggle with, but cannot address openly. It is an extension [...]

My body, on its own, without any accessories, in its natural form, has never been good enough for me. I [...]

As a psychologist, I work a lot with adult survivors of child sexual abuse — a difficult but vital topic [...]

Sometimes it feels like there are many negative distractions to the experience of mikveh that cloud my ability as I [...]

Deep breath. Ok, made it. It’s over. Another one down. Ok, out of the water, pat-pat-pat, throw the towel down [...]

In Judaism, the archetype of prayer is Hana, a barren woman praying for a child. But since my infertility diagnosis, [...]

Photo by Alban Martel on Unsplash The Eden Center advises women who experience OCD to seek out a therapist [...]

Twenty-six years ago, before I got married, I learned the laws of taharat hamishpacha, as well as a deeper approach [...]

Pour out your heart like water; for you are in the presence of Hashem (Lamentations 2:19). photo by Paul [...]