Why are some seminaries asking girls if they've ever gone to therapy?
These are lines we’re saying more and more often, because we’ve learned something communally: Shoving problems under the rug or delaying getting the right help comes at a steep price.
A recent convention had no less than three major sessions on therapy-related topics presented by clinicians alongside rabbanim. We’re creating a climate in which we begin normalizing getting help instead of helpless hand-wringing.
This is good. From my vantage point, I see so many more people getting the help and tools they need to be healthy, functional, contributing members of society.
But then our daughters apply to seminary. And on some of those applications they fill out, they encounter variations of this question: Are you in therapy? Have you ever been to therapy?
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