Health

Mikveh After Mastectomy– Lessons Learned as a BRCA Gene Mutant

This blog originally appeared in 2016. We are posting it again in celebration of the launch of our new resource [...]

Support Healing Spaces and Resources for Women Going Through Breast Cancer Our friend and teacher, Rabbanit Dr. Avigail Rock z”l [...]

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

Photo by Katie Treadway The Eden Center does not endorse products, nor have we tested this specific one, [...]

“Mazel tov to the newly engaged couple”! After the toasts and good wishes are finished, [...]

I can still feel a tiny twinge of pain deep inside me as I reach my hand out to turn [...]

by Avigail Rock z”l This was first published in partnership with The Layers Project Magazine. A few months after giving [...]

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 [...]

Photo by Joanna Kosinska, Unsplash It had been three years since their last vacation together and Shuli was [...]

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

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 [...]

Michal was returning from a work conference in Carmiel when a vehicle crossed into her lane and smashed head on [...]

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

Can a woman get a vaginal yeast infection from using the mikveh? If so, what steps must be taken to [...]