By Luisa Dillner — 2017
Anxiety about labour–and what might come afterwards–causes stress for expectant mothers and increases risk in childbirth. But there could be a natural solution
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When I found out I was pregnant, I had mixed feelings. The Jewish holidays helped me navigate the difficult emotional journey that followed.
What if our own crucible of self-sacrifice can teach us more about enlightenment than male mystics ever could?
The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.
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There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.