Articles

Rejoicing When You Can’t Rejoice

By Rabbi Sandra Cohen | How do you rejoice when you can’t rejoice? By accepting your experience and being gentle with yourself. You can use the joy around you to help you be kind to yourself. Allow for the possibility that you may eventually feel better, just not today. And that, my friends, will let joy in. Forgive yourself. After all you, have done nothing wrong.

Community Support

Statement of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association Addressing Mental Illness

Suggested Readings

What About the Jewish Prayer for Those with Mental Illness?

Audio + Video

Overcoming Mental Health Challenges | Break the Stigma

Articles, Stories of Hope

Healing from Collective Trauma

Collective trauma can eventually become part of a cultural identity, a narrative and a way of viewing a social group.

Suggested Readings

I’m a Rabbi With Mental Illness and I’m Done Trying to Hide My Pain

There are so many others out there who, like me, are suffering in silence. You are never alone.

Audio + Video

Overcoming Mental Health Challenges | Break the Stigma

Stories of overcoming anxiety, depression and other challenges so many of us face by Unpacked Media.

Articles

Mental Health Awareness Month

Originally shared on the Jewish Women's Archive blog.

Mental Health Support

National Domestic Violence Hotline

A free, 24-hour confidential service for survivors, victims, and those affected by domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and relationship abuse.