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Learning to Live With Paralysis
Tovy Mann
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Learning to Live with Fragile Bones  
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with an Enchondroma Tumor
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with a Type of Mitochondrial Disease   
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with Migraines 
Chaya Rosen
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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
Unlock Your Heart
The Heart in the Sea
Awash in questions, drowning in doubt, we're still cherished
Faigie Zelcer and Leah Gebber
Unlock Your Heart
Rosh Hashanah: The Freedom to Choose
How can we find a pathway into the Yamim Noraim with this mixture of guilt, fear, and paralysis?
Faigie Zelcer and Leah Gebber
Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 890
“Let’s be realistic about the burden, and then we can say we are happy to take it”
Family First Readers
Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 889
“Why did Chelli agonize over a decision that wasn’t hers to make in a vacuum? She had 14 other people to consider”
Family First Readers
Musings
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
My mirror-self’s lips twitch, and then the woman looking back at me is laughing
Esther Mandel
Musings
I Never Knew
I never imagined motherhood would take every single part of me, every last bit of myself I didn’t even know I possessed
Emuna Stein
Dispatch
Indigenous
The myth of two different peoples, both indigenous to the land, long competing for the same piece of territory, is just that: a myth
Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
Dispatch
Their Suffering 
Existentially, perhaps more than at any time in my life, I am taking our suffering into account
Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
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Dealing with Three Different Diagnoses

Yoel Simcha enjoys playing hockey, board games, making up jokes, and spending time with friends

By Chaya Rosen

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Dealing with Severe Atopic Dermatitis

There are treatments to try and relieve AD, but there is no cure

By Chaya Rosen

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Hidden Heroes  Part 6/6: Dealing with Crohn’s 

There is no cure for Crohn’s, but the disease can be kept under control with diet and medications and sometimes surgery

By Chaya Rosen

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Part 4 of 6: Dealing with BPD 

“You can be happy even if you’re different, and you can still experience incredible simchas chayim even if you’re not perfectly healthy”

By Chaya Rosen

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Dealing with Diabetes: part 3 of 6     

Kids with type 1 diabetes monitor their blood sugar with finger-pricks and a tiny device (glucometer)

By Chaya Rosen