anxiety

When Blessings Bring Pain

When I saw the little blue line on the pregnancy test, I felt like I was walking on air. A ...

Meditation and Medication

Judaism is not just a religion based on commandments and laws. Practicing Judaism and knowledge of Jewish Philosophy gives us ...

Learning to Breathe

I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...

Jews and Anxiety

This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...

Focusing Under Pressure

In my last post, I described the technical difficulties that occurred when I appeared on Talk of the Nation earlier this ...