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A Mindful Rosh Hashanah: How to Stop Panicking Before the Chagim
We are in the season of looking inward, reflecting on our behavior, and mending our ways. It may seem daunting. ...
Susie Keinon
Sep 14, 20233 min read
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Mindfully Planting a Seed & Growing New Habits
How Mindfulness Can Help Us in Planting a Seed and Growing New Habits In this week’s Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, we learn about...
Susie Keinon
Apr 20, 20232 min read
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Let the Light In: Using Mindfulness to Cope With Darkness
In this week's Torah portion,Toldot, we are told that Yitzchak marries Rivkah at age 40. He is comforted from the loss of his mother,...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20234 min read
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Mindfully S-T-O-P, Look, and Listen & Parshat Re'eh
Mindfully S-T-O-P: Creating a Mindful Space to Choose and Parsaht Re'eh In this week’s Torah portion Re’eh, we are given two paths to...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20233 min read
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Coping With Disappointments Mindfully and Parshat Ve'etchanan
Parshat Va’etchanan, the parsha that is always read on Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort that comes after Tisha B'Av, is best known...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20234 min read
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Why Mindfulness Is Not Passive
In this week’s Parsha, Behar, we learn about the Sabbatical year and letting the land lie fallow. We don’t plant or cultivate the land....
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20233 min read
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What Is Independence?
What is Independence? Independence: The quality or state of not being under the control of, reliant on, or connected with someone or...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Loneliness and the Half Shekel
This Shabbat we mark Shabbat Shekalim to commemorate that every person was commanded to give a half-shekel for the upkeep of the Temple....
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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The Virtue of Humility
The Virtue of Humility In this week’s parsha Tetzaveh, we learn about the details of the building of the tabernacle and also about the...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Feeling Safe
It's important to pay attention. It makes us aware of what we're doing. It helps people around us feel listened to. When someone isn’t...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Take The Leap! Navigating Stress With Mindfulness
Leap of faith: To believe in something or someone based on faith rather than evidence; an attempt to achieve something that has an...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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No Patience For Impatience
In this week’s Torah portion, Moses speaks to the enslaved Jewish people in Egypt and tells them that they will be delivered from slavery...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Have You Ever Walked Into a Room and Forgotten Why? How To Start An Informal Mindfulness Practice
How To Start An Informal Mindfulness Practice Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten what you were looking for? Have you ever...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Can Mindfulness Help Us Face Our Fears?
Befriend Your Fears In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob is about to meet his brother Esau after many years. Several years earlier, he...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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Learning How to Meditate, Even If You Think You Can't
Overcoming Obstacles in Meditation Meditation isn't as easy as it looks. Like most things, it takes practice. We are taught to see our...
Susie Keinon
Jan 1, 20234 min read
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