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They say that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But what if you don’t have the recipe? Luckily, recipes for personal growth, great relationships, and emotional health are readily available. Return to this page often for new Torah-true perspectives and practical information to understand, survive, and sometimes even thrive through life’s challenges.
Harnessing the Fury: How to Use Your Anger
Discover how our worst selves emerge in conflicts and explore the potential of recording fights for self-improvement and better communication.
Putting Your Family Together
Knowing family dynamics and analyzing patterns within the family and assessing their impact is the heart of family therapy.
Learning How to Navigate Shidduchim
Achieving your child’s happy marriage requires alignment and effective communication.
Tapping into Your Child
Kids learn by seeing. As a parent you are front stage for your kids.
What Do Children Know?
Children learn through observation. Their environment shapes their personalities and behaviors. Analyzing the impact of parenting on child development
A Trip to Shidduch-Adventureland: A Parent’s Guide
Learn 10 useful tips going into shidduchim and find your true love
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What PE Taught Me About Good Parenting
What my clinically depressed PE coach and endless laps around the gym taught me about how to avoid becoming a failure at life.
The Gamble of Listening to Your Teen
Teenage-hood is letting go of your child to become adults. It doesn’t help they have a few biological screws loose. How can you rise to this challenge?
The True Joy of Living With Gratitude
Feeling mediocre? Gratitude can reignite pleasure and passion in your career, relationships, and almost anything else. Here’s how to tap in.
How To Get a Handle on Stress
Stress can effect our health and relationships, but how we size up a situation determines how we respond to it. Here are a few easy tools to defuse stress.
The Shocking Truth About Childhood ADHD
The number of people diagnosed with ADHD is increasing every year. So are the serious side effects of Adderall and Ritalin. Has your child been misdiagnosed?
Can Fear of God Stop Suffering?
Why is fear of God so vital to our well-being and can it even protect us from unnecessary suffering?
The Place Workshop: The 40 Day Challenge
Chaim SIlverstone is facilitating a workshop on breaking free from bad habits and addictive behaviors that are getting in the way of the life you want.
How My Brain Gets In The Way Of My Marriage
We’re biologically hardwired to vacillate between mild paranoia and sheer terror. So How can we disconnect from our survival instincts to save our marriage?
How To Overcome The Elephant In The Room – Low Self Esteem
Developing self esteem can be difficult but is not impossible. Mati Abramov LMSW shares one powerful skill that can help change how you look at yourself.