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Don’t Let the Light Go Out
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Last night brought with it the last candle of Hanukkah for 2017. As I kindled each one over the past 8 nights, using the menorah that I inherited from my parents when they passed, I offered a prayer for peace, healing, reconciliation for the planet. More than any time in my own history, I have…
Who Would Jesus Hate?
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I am beginning this blog with a few rhetorical questions that may ruffle feathers, but like the man about whom I am writing, I am not averse to controversy and mind opening. How can those who claim to honor the birth, life, and death of One who came in the name of love, espouse hatred?…
Spiritual Abuse
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Recently I sat with a client in my practice who shared that she grew up in a fundamentalist church in which she was told that suffering was the way to experience God. Her life experience included physical and sexual abuse. Her child-mind internalized that God and pain were intertwined and now in her 50’s, she…
Inscribed In The Book of Life
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
During the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; which are also known as The High Holy Days in the Jewish tradition in which I was raised, we contemplate the year that has gone by, as well as the one stretching out before us. As I type these words, I am experiencing another beginning. I…
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