The GHI Fund proudly support soldiers, lone soldiers, and active reservists in funding trauma therapy via private practice multilingual therapists to provide imminent specialized care. Soldiers can select their own therapist through our database of participating therapists.
In Relationship with Mental Illness
By: Chava LedererIf your spouse suffers from a mental health issue or addiction, there are some concrete steps you can take to improve your life. These are the first pieces of building your relationship.
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Grief for the Loss of our Parents
By: Jeanne S. LankinThose of us granted life have to face the loss of the most profound of all our relationships. The relationship a person has with a parent, affects every stage of our life. Therefore, losing a parent at each stage in life has unique challenges.
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At Home Therapeutic Art Activities for Children During Global Pandemic
By: Sara FeinbergDuring challenging times, it is important to encourage children to express how they are feeling. Children often have difficulty articulating their emotions verbally- communicating through art or play is a great alternative. This can serve as a cathartic release, empower them, and help them process new circumstances.
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My Journey Through Chronic Pain: A Personal and Professional Story of Healing
By: Tzipora HaitPhysical pain in the body that is produced by our brain is identical, whether there is an actual structural injury in the body or whether the brain mistakenly believes there is a structural injury in the body. To offer an analogy, a smoke alarm that sounds because it is broken makes the exact loud and very real noise as a smoke alarm that sounds because there is smoke from an actual fire.
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Intergenerational Trauma in Times of Crisis: Echoes of the Holocaust in the Present
By: Jeanne LankinIntergenerational trauma refers to the transmission of trauma responses from one generation to future generations including patterns of coping and survival strategies. In the case of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, trauma may have been communicated not only through shared or unspoken stories but through the emotional messages communicated in the home including generalized fear, silence, secrecy, overprotection, familial dysfunction and vigilance.
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How to Connect With Your Partner in the Pandemic and Beyond
By: Judy MarkoseConsider this dream: you and your partner experience the pandemic with your marriage intact and your family even closer and more connected than ever. You can practice a more loving way of relating, with more kindness and giving. This blog offers practical tips for becoming a great communicator, being a generous listener, and adding gratitude to your relationship.
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Israel Wartime Anxiety: 3 Emotion-Focused Therapy Tips
By: Daniel FundThe more we turn towards the pain and express unmet needs, and not avoid them, the less anxious we will be.
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Fundamentals of Trauma Recovery, Part 7
By: Chava LedererFinding meaning, creating purpose, and gaining control is a recipe that results in greater resilience and fuller recovery.
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Embracing Transitions: Finding the MAGIC PAUSE Moment
By: Keren BurgmanAutumn is the season of change. I grew up in the Midwest, Chicago. First there…
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Grief Before Courage: What the Story of Esther Teaches Us
By: Naomi ZaudererThis post reflects on a women’s moon circle held during the Hebrew month of Adar, using the story of Esther as a framework for exploring passivity, purpose, and courageous action. Through discussion, journaling, and music, we examined the difference between emotional awareness and meaningful movement. The piece also explores how unprocessed grief can delay necessary conversations and growth.
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Caregiving in the Time of Quarantine
By: Jeanne LankinHow can we as caregivers of elderly relatives, whether they are local or across the world, navigate the realities of this pandemic? How do we adjust to this “new normal” in our lives with responsibilities as adult children to our elderly loved ones? How can we cope with the inevitable guilt that arises from not being able to fully meet our family’s needs during this time of crisis?
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Good Therapy is a Change in Scenery: Insights from the Other Side of the World
By: Robin B. ZeigerEvery once in a while, important insights for my known world reveal themselves from the most unusual of places. My recent trip to the Far East: Myanmar and Thailand gifted me new insights and inspirations as a Jungian analyst. My mantra became, Good therapy is a change in scenery. In the safety of the therapist’s temenos (a beautiful Jungian term for the sanctity of the therapy space), patients meet the messages of the unconscious often for the first time. And in meeting these unknown voices and images, our inner and outer worlds transform themselves into newness and rebirth.
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Earth, Water, Air, and Fire
By: Chava LedererThe four classical elements are channels through which we make contact with the present moment reality, and engage our uniquely human mind – a mind capable of creativity, of connecting to others, of faith and spirituality. I offer you these four elements as resources in moments of stress, panic, fear, or any other overwhelming experience.
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