Healing Trauma Within Our Jewish Community Archives

Code-Switching at Work: Why Racialized Performance and the Pressure to Belong Are So Exhausting

Your boss is talking during a team meeting about how employees should handle difficult customers, and he says everyone needs to smile, remain pleasant, and keep the customer happy even when the customer becomes rude or aggressive. You immediately think about what happened to your coworker last week, when a customer started yelling at her…

Why Can’t I Relax in a Healthy Relationship?

By Chana Ceasar

A racially ambiguous professional woman lies awake in bed looking at her phone while her partner sleeps peacefully beside her, illustrating the anxiety and hypervigilance that can occur in healthy relationships after attachment trauma.

How Attachment Trauma Makes Safe Love Feel Unfamiliar You and your partner have just gotten home from another lovely evening together. Both of you have been working hard, juggling responsibilities, and you decided to end the week with something simple and kind, a dinner at your favorite place, the kind of night you both enjoy…

Why Do I Feel Like I’ve Lost Myself? How Attachment Trauma Makes Competence Become Your Identity and Why Life Begins to Fall Apart When It Doesn’t Work Anymore

By Chana Ceasar

A thoughtful Black woman sits at a table by a window, looking out while surrounded by a notebook, papers, photographs, and a coffee mug. The image accompanies a blog about how attachment trauma can lead to building an identity around competence and losing a sense of self during major life transitions.

You’re sitting at your kitchen table staring at a life you worked incredibly hard to build, and yet somewhere along the way it has begun feeling unfamiliar. Maybe your business isn’t growing the way you expected despite everything you’ve invested in it. Perhaps the career you’ve chased so hard unexpectedly, hit a snag due to…

How Antisemitism Affects the Nervous System: Why You Feel Exhausted Even When You Keep Functioning

By Chana Ceasar

When You Wake Up Heavy and Cannot Explain Why You wake up and something in your body already feels heavy. The room looks the same as it did the night before, your phone sits where you left it, the light coming through the window has not changed, and yet your nervous system feels dense and…

Healing Trauma and Antisemitism: A Path to Recovery with Somatic Experiencing

By Chana Ceasar

The events of October 7th – especially the acts of violence and terror – have caused deep physical and emotional harm to individuals and communities around the world. For many Jewish individuals, the trauma has been compounded by the pain of experiencing antisemitism in its rawest form. Whether directly affected or witnessing the horrific events…