חגים כהזדמנות להתפתחות

Yom Kippur brings us a unique opportunity for soul-searching and self-forgiveness. Let's explore how to incorporate compassion and self-acceptance into the traditional teshuva process. We will learn about the importance of the 'inner hug' - accepting all parts of the self, including the ones we find difficult to love.

"Live according to your authentic self without censorship or judgment" Carl Jung. I have included a lovely tool that prompts a process of in-depth examination of behaviors, traits, feelings, thoughts and more designed to help you discover who you are in all kinds of times and situations. This is how you can choose to reveal your authentic self.

There are many women who want to be the best possible! To be well thought of, appreciated and loved and to make that happen, they adjust themselves to what they believe other people want them to be. They put on a mask that matches the role and fulfill it faithfully thinking that it serves them. And I come and ask - really?!

Tu Beshvat is a holiday that in my eyes represents a cycle of sowing and harvesting the fruits of our labor. Basically, every year we sow something new and reap the fruits of what we sowed and planted the previous year. And in this way, while we sow and plant the fruits we want to eat next year, we guarantee ourselves fruits in a regular and consistent manner.

Many apologies. We know the forgiveness you ask for when you hurt someone, the self-forgiveness of those who chose to pity themselves. But there is more forgiveness that we need to learn. This is forgiveness from afar.