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Elana Mizrahi |
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 Originally from northern California and a Stanford University graduate, Elana Mizrahi now lives in Jerusalem with her husband and children. She is a women's health & spiritual wellness coach, doula, massage therapist, writer, and author of Dancing Through Life, a book for Jewish women. She also teaches Jewish marriage classes for brides.
Rachel taught us that the way to work on the not normal is by staying calm. To understand that within the range of normal, there are different personalities.
There is a certain internal voice that says, “You are not doing enough.”
Part of me wants to cry from joy, another part wants to cry from exhaustion, while a third part wants to cry from the doubt that creeps inside.
The weather turned to rain. The contractions came and went.
Those duck-and-cover drills of my youth in the United States that we practiced in school prepared me for the major earthquake that occurred when I was 11 years old. Technically, I knew what to do. Duck under my desk and cover the back of my head with my h...
On the one hand, I saw myself traveling, working long hours, being busy with a busy career; on the other hand, I always had this desire to be a mommy.
We went camping this past summer, and the preparations for it took a lot of work. The buying, borrowing, planning; asking for advice on how to do it and what to do. My husband and I packed in two days what some might pack in two weeks. It was our first ti...
I think, “You really never know where a person is coming from.”
There had been a glitch in the computer system and appointments had been double-booked. In short, it was a mess, and the wait would be very long.
Did my mother in-law miss us? Of course. Did she want us near her? Absolutely.
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