Sarah Herbsman is a certified family coach as well as advanced trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach®. She works with parents and young adults who have tried traditional therapeutic approaches and have come up empty or who just want a coach to help them achieve their goals. With her dual approach of education and coaching,

I am very grateful and satisfied in my career as a professional organizer. For some organizers, though, there are times they want to make a change. She or he may wish to continue with a career that helps people, yet take their organizer skill set to a higher level. Some of the organizers I know have upped their game and become a

The “C” word or the “Big C”—that’s how people used to refer to cancer. To say the word aloud elicited shame, embarrassment and even self-blame for being diagnosed with the disease. Having cancer is difficult. Adding feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment on top of other painful emotions, like sadness and anxiety, only

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קדושים תהיו...

“You shall be holy…”

דבר אל כל עדת בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם

קדושים תהיו כי קדוש אני ה’ אלקיכם.

Speak to all of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy—for holy am I, Hashem, your God.

(Vayikra

Many are familiar with the sad reality of isolation experienced by our aging loved ones living in senior care facilities. While some of the stories may be disheartening, there are uplifting stories as well, one of which, about a technology called “Obie,” was shared by Teaneck’s own Shira Weiss.

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קדושים תהיו...

“You shall be holy…”

דבר אל כל עדת בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם

קדושים תהיו

“My child hates reading. Whenever we have to sit for reading homework it becomes such a power struggle as a full-on temper tantrum begins. I can’t do it anymore so I just stop pushing. Tears and screams go on for 20 minutes and I just can’t bear it each night.” That is the struggle of a parent trying to help a child read.

As our outdoor chores wind down and the last leaves are bagged, we turn our thoughts indoors and inside our clothes closets. We evaluate and analyze. We see the clothes that we love and we wore until they wore out. I call them “faves” or “BFFs.” We see the clothes we never actually liked and we are ready part with. I call

As you may expect, COVID-19 has been accompanied by a significant uptick in mental health concerns in many ways, in virtually all affected populations. Increases in anxiety and depression, with their associated feelings of loneliness, sadness and general negative state of mind, are abundant. These are related to the illness itself—fear of

It was my 12th-grade class trip that firmed up my decision to become an occupational therapist. An incident with a classmate with muscular difficulties that I was able to help showed me exactly what I wanted to become. I loved that occupational therapy (OT) is a profession that, while based on science, prides itself on thinking outside the

As of Election Day this year, marijuana usage and sale has been legalized in New Jersey. Whether we voted for it or not, it’s a done deal. And so the question is, now what?

Many of us are still in shock; it would have been one thing to decriminalize the use of marijuana, which some of us could

“As a parent you are as happy as your most unhappy child. It was so hard sitting on the sidelines watching our children struggle. We saw their pain and anguish. And we wanted to make it go away. We wanted them to have a child so badly, and knowing that there was nothing we could do to make it happen was devastating. It felt like just