Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Everyone has triggers - small, seemingly innocuous things that set them off in an emotional reaction that seems far beyond what seems appropriate to the situation. These triggers relate directly back to trauma, often childhood experiences that left us with these wounds, these sensitive spots that can’t bear to be … Continue reading Know Your Triggers

Image by Iris Hamelmann from Pixabay I’m going to let you in on a personal secret - I love Passover, I even love its food, but that food doesn’t love me back. I’m not even talking about the usual issues people like to giggle about, having to do with the lack of fibre in matzah. … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Probiotics

Image by Tom from Pixabay We are currently in the midst of the holiday of Passover - the Festival of Freedom, what I like to call the birthday of the Jewish people. There’s a lot of birth imagery in the story of the Exodus - coming forth from Egypt, also known as Mitzrayim, the narrow … Continue reading The Freedom to Care

Image by debowscyfoto from Pixabay Recently, I had the privilege of taking a course called Torah for the End (and Beginning) of the World, through SVARA, the traditionally radical yeshiva. SVARA, unlike most of the world, centres the experiences of queer, disabled and otherwise marginalised people. The instructor, Rabbi Elliot Kukla, brought us texts from … Continue reading Feel Your Feelings!