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Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 17, 20241 min read
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Preparing food for the week:
Sometimes I find preparing food exhilarating and comforting and other times I feel anxious and scared. I sometimes look into my fridge...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 15, 20241 min read
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TAKING FOOD COVERING UP WITH A NAPKIN AND HIDING IT IN MY COAT POCKET. ( WORRIED THAT i WOULD NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT )
Today, I felt insecure.. and not sure how to feed myself as I ate some fruit and yogurt/ with a cookie at 2:00 am. I had travelled back...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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It takes courage and Inner knowing
to step into a new synagogue and committ myself to show up. I stepped into a new portal of care for me yesterday. I sat with the Rabbi...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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PARDES SHALOM CEMETARY:
today I drove up to the cemetary connecting with my mother, cleaning her stone and redesigning as i do every year. I have carried one...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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After my first meeting today:
my right side was concerned about what I would be making for dinner, just right after my meeting with the dietican/trauma informed...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 9, 20241 min read
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Prayers During High Holidays that Spoke To Me.
KOL HANESHAMAH: Mahzor Leytamin Nora’im.  And you wait, await the one ting That will infinitely increase your life; The gigantic, the...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 8, 20241 min read
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Hard Wired for Trauma
A trillion time practice to be able to stay with feelings of vulnerability of the heart. I wonder why it is difficult to stay with the...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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The Trek to Ottawa: A Jewish Pilgrimage.
I decided to leave on October 1, 2024 and said a Prayer to support my drive on the 401 to Ottawa. I wore my Talliet and chanted along the...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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Leaving the Danforth Jewish Circle Entering into Or Haneshmah's Synagogoue in Ottawa
Each High Holiday, i prepare my home ( makom ) within and within my home as I step into High Holiday's. This year I felt a calling to...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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New Prayer to Support Self Care
Out beyond the Ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field I will meet myself there. Living with Diabeties is stressful coupled...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 6, 20241 min read
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Letting go of the Trauma
Today, in therapy i let go together with my therapist stones that represented my Trauma history and the attachments ( smaller stones )...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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stress
I literally have no appepitie these days, trauma time is present for me that lives on my right side. I have been resourcing as much as...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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Janina Fisher: on Parts
when more than one trauma happens... there is two parts of the personality Going on with Normal Life connected to the Traumatized Part of...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Feeling my Feelings and Staying in the Window of Tolerance
For three days i have lost my ability to fully eat and I know that is not wise action. And I am eating full meals and allowing my grief...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Beginning to Blog about my internal family system and creating a new way of trusting my body so that I can let my weight go. stay tuned.
stay tuned for information to share.
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Sacred Work/Preparing for Shabbat
this past month I have been in a process of leave taking from my Synagogue. I made a committment on my meditation walk tonight to set...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Aug 30, 20242 min read
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Leatrice Joy Cohen : died March 14, 2012: today is my mother's birthday she would have been 101 today.
Today is my mother's birthday and she would have been 101 today. I usually honor her by lighting a candle, enjoying a good cup of tea...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Mar 21, 20241 min read
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Weight Watchers, Trusting Myself, Noom. Trusting my own Inner Wisdom
back at it, figuring out how to manage my feelings and not go into the old patterns of filling myself up with food. Ophrah Winfrey did a...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Mar 21, 20241 min read
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blogging committment
I asked a dear colleaugue and friend of mine to develop my website and i have literally never really used it other than to update my...
Sheri Ahava Cohen
Feb 19, 20241 min read
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