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Thoughts on trauma, healing, and the human spirit

The Emotional Journey of Letting Go: Why Release is the First Step to Freedom

Letting go is often one of the hardest emotional journeys we can embark on. Whether it’s releasing the grip of past hurts, unhealed wounds, or long-held regrets, the act of

Unraveling Family Secrets: How Hidden Trauma Shapes Our Identity

Have you ever felt like there’s something deeper in your family’s history that you’re just not being told? Family secrets can linger for generations, often hiding painful truths that, when

The Path to Healing Generational Trauma: Breaking the Cycle of Pain

Have you ever wondered why certain patterns seem to repeat in your family, no matter how hard you try to break free? From anxiety to unhealthy relationships, many of us

How Generational Trauma Shapes the Lives of Holocaust Survivors’ Children

Generational trauma is the passing down of emotional and psychological pain from one generation to the next. For the children of Holocaust survivors, this trauma is especially profound, shaping their

The Shoah – How The Past Becomes The Present

There are no words that can ever explain the scale and gravity of what happened during the Shoah. My mother lost her parents, four sisters and a brother, who were

Intergenerational Trauma – The Hidden Voices After The Holocaust

While much has been told about the atrocities of the Holocaust survivors, their descendants have trauma too. There has been so much shared of survivors’ accounts of the atrocities they

My Overbearing Mother and I (Robert Don) – Was It All The Right Love

My mother I was raised with overbearing affection by my mother, so that I felt growing up no one could have loved me more. She was always there for me,

Why Did I Become A Writer  – The Story I Needed To Tell

Why Did I Become A Writer  – The Story I Needed To Tell Why Did I Become A Writer  – The Story I Needed To Tell I decided to change

Kristallnacht – Through the Eyes of a Schindler Survivor’s Son

Featured on the Times of Israel Blog    On the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazi German leaders unleashed a nationwide   antisemitic riot.  This week marked 87 years after this

Survivor And Inherited Trauma – The Shoah and 10/7

Featured on The Times of Israel Blog   There has been so much shared of survivors’ accounts of the atrocities they lived through in the Holocaust, but not nearly enough

Yom Kippur’s Meaning to the Son of a Schindler Jew

Featured in The Times of Israel blog On Yom Kippur day, October 1993, my rabbi’s sermon in synagogue was the story of the upcoming release next month of the movie
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