{"id":1460,"date":"2024-01-11T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/?page_id=1460"},"modified":"2024-01-20T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T02:09:07","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-blog-shortcode fusion-blog-shortcode-1 fusion-blog-archive fusion-blog-layout-large fusion-blog-pagination\"><div class=\"fusion-posts-container fusion-posts-container-pagination fusion-blog-rollover\" data-pages=\"7\"><article id=\"blog-1-post-2172\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-2172 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/slowly-digging-out-of-depressions-darkness\/\">Slowly Digging Out of Depression\u2019s Darkness<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>I am running, running, on the racetrack, trying to get to the finish line so I can finally sit down with my feet up, to enjoy the satisfied pleasure of accomplishment. My feet ache, the sun\u2019s rays are burning, and a headache is forming and gaining strength. I wish that my path wasn\u2019t so long\u2014and that the weather be cooler, that I would be stronger, that the headache would wait until I could sink into oblivion on my cozy bed.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/toby\/\" title=\"Posts by toby\" rel=\"author\">toby<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-15T16:22:57+00:00<\/span><span>March 6th, 2024<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/slowly-digging-out-of-depressions-darkness\/\" aria-label=\"More on Slowly Digging Out of Depression\u2019s Darkness\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-219\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-219 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/postpartum-depression\/\">Postpartum Depression<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>It was as if I were being buried alive, sinking in quicksand, unable to find my way out. That's how I felt after the birth of my sixth child.\r\n\r\nI was irritable; I cried; I was exhausted, yet had trouble sleeping. Getting through each day seemed nearly impossible. My own children avoided me; my husband tiptoed around me. I was convinced that my family and the world would be better off without me.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/rachel\/\" title=\"Posts by Rachel\" rel=\"author\">Rachel<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-06T17:07:50+00:00<\/span><span>January 10th, 2022<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/postpartum-depression\/\" aria-label=\"More on Postpartum Depression\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-215\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-215 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/being-grounded\/\">Being Grounded<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>Once or twice a week I work for a very special organization called NITZA, The\u00a0Israel\u00a0Center for Maternal Health. Located in\u00a0Jerusalem, it provides psychological, physical and emotional support for women with postpartum depression. While I have observed that there are similarities between the women who come to NITZA, there are no concrete rules. A first-time mother is just as likely to come to the clinic as a woman who gave birth to her sixth child.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/rachel\/\" title=\"Posts by Rachel\" rel=\"author\">Rachel<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-06T17:08:26+00:00<\/span><span>January 10th, 2022<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/being-grounded\/\" aria-label=\"More on Being Grounded\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-204\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-204 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-our-voice\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/coming-to-grips-with-my-anxiety-disorder\/\">Coming to Grips with My Anxiety Disorder<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>I suffer from an anxiety disorder which includes bouts of clinical depression. Although this illness is usually hushed up and kept secret, one in ten people suffer right along with me, each in their self-imposed silence.\r\n\r\nI share my story with the hope of educating others to understand the dynamics of emotional illness and what it\u2019s like to be caught in its tight grip. Perhaps as a result of my words greater sensitivity and compassion will prevail and others will react to a sufferer\u2019s pain accordingly.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/rachel\/\" title=\"Posts by Rachel\" rel=\"author\">Rachel<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-06T17:08:53+00:00<\/span><span>January 4th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/coming-to-grips-with-my-anxiety-disorder\/\" aria-label=\"More on Coming to Grips with My Anxiety Disorder\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-198\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-198 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-our-voice\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/just-nerves\/\">Just Nerves?<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>\"Who told you to stop taking your meds, Moish?\"\r\n\r\nHis name was Yekusiel Shemaya Tuvia Moshe Wein.\r\n\r\n\u201cBut you can call me Moish,\u201d he said, with an air of someone who\u2019s been through it enough times that he reflexively explained, \u201cI\u2019m named for a few different elter zeides, and I was also born on Zayin Adar, so my father shlita thought it was a good name. But like I said, just call me Moish.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/rachel\/\" title=\"Posts by Rachel\" rel=\"author\">Rachel<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-06T17:09:26+00:00<\/span><span>January 4th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/just-nerves\/\" aria-label=\"More on Just Nerves?\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-188\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-188 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-our-voice\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><h2 class=\"blog-shortcode-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/the-sun-will-yet-shine\/\">The Sun Will Yet Shine<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p>How could I wait while the world moved on and I was a ghost of myself\u00a0\u2014 not a mother, not a daughter, not a wife?\r\n\r\nYou know me. That woman in the grocery. The one with the freshly washed wig, crossbody, and trendy sunglasses. Super capable, a great multitasker.\r\n\r\nI was all of those things. Until I wasn\u2019t.\r\n\r\nThis is my story.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/author\/rachel\/\" title=\"Posts by Rachel\" rel=\"author\">Rachel<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2024-03-06T17:09:59+00:00<\/span><span>November 25th, 2020<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/the-sun-will-yet-shine\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Sun Will Yet Shine\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<\/div><div class=\"pagination clearfix\"><span class=\"current\">1<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/page\/2\/\" class=\"inactive\">2<\/a><a class=\"pagination-next\" rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/yadrachelnj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/page\/2\/\"><span class=\"page-text\">Next<\/span><span class=\"page-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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