For several years, I attended a local synagogue. Every Sabbath at noon, after hours of prayers and lectures, the community would gather downstairs for a large communal lunch in the ballroom. One Sabbath, I found myself in conversation with a woman who had been going through the conversion process to become Jewish. She spoke openly about how slow the process felt and how deeply it had been triggering old traumas and feelings of rejection. She shared that when she reached out t

A friend recently wrote me saying, ""Been dealing with a lot of childhood emotions of feeling trapped in an environment I didn’t want to...