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On Being Therapized
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Making Memories
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A Better You
Creature of Habit  
Being consistent, even when doing less, is more sustainable than making big changes
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Commit to Thyself
Small steps and affirmations can gradually transform your behaviors and help rebuild your trust in yourself
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Calligraphy: Succos 5773
What Sticks Rachael Lavon I’m not sure where it comes from, this sudden need to manufacture memories, only that it nestles sometime before Rosh Hashanah, and it stays. “Esti’s three. She’s going to remember this Rosh Hashanah,” I tell my husband while poring over cookbooks and menus. “The memory will live inside her! Forever!” I
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Calligraphy: Succos 5774
What Sticks Rachael Lavon I’m not sure where it comes from, this sudden need to manufacture memories, only that it nestles sometime before Rosh Hashanah, and it stays. “Esti’s three. She’s going to remember this Rosh Hashanah,” I tell my husband while poring over cookbooks and menus. “The memory will live inside her! Forever!” I
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Make Her Day: Succos 5782
Oasis of Relief  
“Strong” is so overused that it’s too trite to give people a real understanding of who she is and what she has gone through
Ariella Schiller
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Always a Mother  
"I’d love to give her something to brighten her Yom Tov so that she feels special and knows how loved she is"
Ariella Schiller
I of the Storm
I of the Storm: Chapter 20
I pinched myself. Could it be that the entire Shafer crew is cooperating, smiling — and genuinely happy? Could it be that our family portrait is not a complete farce?
Ilana Shafer
I of the Storm
I of the Storm: Chapter 19
So I’m not a tzadeikes, I shot back to my ever-present faultfinder. I haven’t got bottomless reservoirs of patience. But I’m not so bad, either
Ilana Shafer
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How a Mennonite family winged their way from a chicken farm to the chosen people

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