Shalva Waldman M.Sc.

I recently had the pleasure of joining Moshe Norman on his show Mondays with Moishy to talk about something I’ve been thinking about for a long time - the piece that’s often missing in the therapy room, even when a therapist is highly trained and genuinely skilled. We called the episode “The Missing Piece,” and that phrase captures it well. It’s not about which technique you use or which modality you trained in. It’s about what has to be present for any of those tools to actu

There's a stigma in our community around divorce that I want to name. It can feel like: Divorce = Failure. But that simply isn't true. Often divorce means strong women who were willing to protect their children even at a huge price. It means resilience. It means refusing to sacrifice the values and basic health and safety of the home they live in. Many of these women struggled for years inside marriages marked by narcissistic abuse or other extreme dynamics, pouring in their

Yesterday I swam four kilometers across the Kinneret, and I came in ninth among the 400 and something women. For a lifelong athlete, ninth place is nothing to write home about. But I am not a lifelong athlete. I'm a 48-year-old woman, a plus size bubby, and spent most of my life knowing that I might belong in the orchestra, in the library or chilling with the other nerds. But not on a sport team. I was among the last to get picked for any game during PE. Never participated in

As I sit down to write a few days after Pesach there is so much uncertainty. My daughter’s gan decided that they would open. Then hours later they decided not to. The ceasefire is officially still in place, and the negotiations failed. The airport is open and the airlines aren’t sure if they are flying. Limbo. You know that moment right after pesach? Some of the people are plotzing to get their hands and mouths on some chometz, you just want to get the pesach keilim safely pu