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Shoshana Schwartz
Grab the Reins
Shoshana Schwartz
Grab the Reins
Shoshana Schwartz
Grab the Reins
Shoshana Schwartz
Grab the Reins
Shoshana Schwartz
More or Less
"If she’s done this with too many clients, my entire reputation is done. I’m too small, too new to rehabilitate from this"
Esther Kurtz
More or Less
No matter how much I realized I’d done wrong since I’d gotten married, how selfish and self-centered I’d been, this parallel just brought it all home
Esther Kurtz
The Road Home
And I… I’m okay being me, even if I’m not entirely sure who that is
Malka Winner
The Road Home
Somehow, it’s deeply reassuring that the people packing us up are Our People
Malka Winner
Pesach Without Pressure
Windex — it’s all about happy Jews and Windex.
Bracha Stein
Pesach Without Pressure
If you’re getting frustrated, you’re probably spring-cleaning
Bracha Stein
Theme Section: Open Secrets
So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed
Family First Contributors
Learning Curve
Aviva doesn’t show up to work for a few days, causing Suri to worry. Chavi tells Aviva’s mother that she’s been sick all week
Gila Arnold
Learning Curve
Hoping the peal hadn’t woken her children, she ran to the door. Standing on her doorstep were the last two people Yael would have expected to see
Gila Arnold
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“I can’t do what I’ve been doing till now, it’s sick, enough is enough. I’ve tried stopping on my own, and always start again” ,Grab the Reins: Chapter 29, “I can’t do what I’ve been doing till now, it’s sick, enough is enough. I’ve tried stopping on my own, and always start again.”

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Lena had been attending 12-step meetings for over a year and strongly identified with the other members, but her behavior hadn’t changed at all,Grab the Reins: Chapter 28,Lena had been attending 12-step meetings for over a year and strongly identified with the other members, but her behavior hadn’t changed at all

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“If you know you’re not ready to get married before dealing with these issues, you think another few months will magically make you ready?”

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> “So he raised his voice another notch. I repeated, ‘I can’t listen while you’re screaming’ and started to walk out of the room”,Grab the Reins: Chapter 26,> “So he raised his voice another notch. I repeated, ‘I can’t listen while you’re screaming’ and started to walk out of the room”

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“I’ve never seen him so angry. In fact, he never gets angry. He never has to, no one does anything that might somehow upset him!” ,Grab the Reins: Chapter 25,“I’ve never seen him so angry. In fact, he never gets angry. He never has to, no one does anything that might somehow upset him!”

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“The main thing I learned from our group was how mood can affect us. And that people do things to make themselves feel safe”,Grab the Reins: Chapter 24, “The main thing I learned from our group was how mood can affect us. And that people do things to make themselves feel safe”

By Shoshana Schwartz