Karen Zivan

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Dec 30, 2019, 2:47 PM

Letting Down Your Hair #741 Zichron Menachem Chanukah Camp

Boarding an El Al flight to Cyprus, joining the Zichron Menachem (ZM) Chanukah camp for children with cancer, my experience was as “green” as my green ZM fleece. I had never spent any time with children with cancer. My...

Mar 1, 2017, 8:04 PM

Ofra: Shaken ground

A bulldozer destroys a home built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on March 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Eyewitness to one woman's refusal to fight the police evacuation of her family home, and at a loss of how to help

Jul 7, 2014, 10:47 AM

I'm a Psychologist, and one of the basic skills I try to practice is my listening skills. The results of my best work is when I am actively attending, listening with all my openness, hearing the person in front...

Apr 20, 2014, 10:41 AM

My Body, My Self

I'm ready to take the plunge. Literally, Im going to the mikvah. Before I go in, I need to relax. By the time I go to the mikvah I will have reorganized my schedule, shampooed, conditioned, brushed, buffed, flossed, urinated, decalloused,...

Mar 26, 2014, 5:10 PM

Recently, I bought a pair of shoes. This is not "the" confession. The deeper confession is I bought them because I noticed the particular shoe on a young, stylish woman looking chic and satisfied in her personal glamour. I approached her...

Oct 7, 2013, 3:22 PM

Breaking….Good

My second son is engaged to be married and we celebrated last night. The kallah told me last week that we would be “breaking the plate" at the engagement party. I began to hyperventilate. Last year, my eldest son got married...

Oct 2, 2013, 7:55 PM

One mother’s peace plan

Making the decision to move to Israel was neither complicated, difficult, nor scary. Sending our five sons into the Israeli Army, however, multiplied all of those feelings and struck us like an earthquake, deep to the core. Don’t get...

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About Me

Karen Zivan is a mother of five boys. She is a practicing AEDP and School Psychologist who practices therapy with teens, adults, and parents. Karen is a Yoga Teacher who enjoys traveling around the world to donate yoga. In Israel she donates yoga to soldiers and to her community in Hashmonaim.