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Shut the front door

By Rachel | April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 by Rachel

I went to sleep so peacefully. “Thanks,” was the last word on my lips. I woke a few hours later with a vice grip closing around my throat. It’s all not alright. None of it. The project that has dogged me since last year is howling at the moon right outside my window – loose ends that have frayed my last nerve. There is no money coming in but there is money is going out.…

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Anxiety and the Coronavirus

By Rachel | March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by Rachel

I know a lot about coping with anxiety because I’ve had it all my life. I didn’t realize until I started addressing it that it is rampant in my family – on both sides. Since Jewish people overindex to anxiety, I thought I had inherited it from my father’s Sephardic side, but turns it out, it’s everywhere in my family tree. What I’ve learned is that anxiety does not just happen. There is not an…