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Apr 11, 2018, 3:57 PM
Thirty Years Later
We were just a "pilot trip." The first one ever. We were a test drive...A trip of a lifetime, yet quite tentative in its nature, as no one was sure whether there would ever be funding for another March...
Jan 28, 2018, 3:13 PM
In the Still of the Night
That's when all their truths come out...That's when she tells me about the little girl in her class whom everyone teases and she asks me why girls can be so cruel. I tell her that sometimes when little girls...
Feb 24, 2016, 4:08 PM
If we don’t ask, we’ll never know
Recently, I asked a group of ladies I know, admire and respect how it makes them feel when they see my husband's and my smiling picture on Facebook. I told them I wanted honest and direct responses and that's...
Feb 17, 2016, 3:21 PM
Dating Advice from Women to Women
There is a group of women in my life who teach me daily what the meaning of strength, courage and resilience is. They are women who have been badly hurt and yet, they move forward with grace and beauty...
Jan 21, 2016, 2:05 PM
Through the Eyes of a Child
Dear Child, I know your world has just been turned upside down. I know that you feel sad and angry at the world and at G-d. Everything that you've been used to, everything you've grown up with has now come...
Jan 4, 2016, 5:35 PM
Showing Support to a Newly Divorced Woman
I've been there and done that. Fifteen years ago, I said goodbye to my high school sweetheart, the man who would then become my husband, the one who couldn't fathom the idea of taking a journey with me to...
Nov 20, 2014, 6:32 PM
Stolen Innocence
The flood gates have finally opened. My eyes are burning and I can taste the bitter tears, rolling down my cheeks as I am now able to sit with my aching broken heart and try to process the horrific...
Nov 4, 2014, 1:06 PM
My Badge of Honor
My stomach is my badge of honor with all its bumps, scars and layers. It is a symbol of my strength, my resilience and my courage to get through some very difficult trials and tribulations, as well as the...
Oct 26, 2014, 2:22 PM
Heroes
Stomach. Lung. Breast. Ovarian. Liver. Brain. Skin. Blood. Big and Scary Monsters Looming in the Darkness, waiting.... As I stood in line waiting to be served at our local bagel shop, I suddenly felt an overwhelming flood of sadness overcome...
Oct 14, 2014, 11:59 AM
The Beauty from Within
Yesterday, on Chol HaMoed Sukkot, one of the intermediate days of the Festival of Booths, all I wanted to do was forget which day it was, curl up in my bed and cry. It is the Holiday that we...
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Cigal Gabay is a trained school counselor and a family therapist who's starting to see divorcees and their children in therapy. Her world's greatest passion is helping people heal and become their best selves.