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Let me welcome everybody here at Fresh Start. Thank you very much Tova. Thank you very much Tova Korn. Thank you very much Raban Palter. My dear friends and all the staff and leadership of Fresh Start and of course all the participants and all the alumni of Fresh Start. For those who are listening and don't know, Fresh Start is a uh major healing center in Detroit where people can feel safe and start over again and help deal with the traumas that uh we have in our lives. feel free to post or to share any question you would like. And hopefully with God's grace, we'll cover as many questions as we can. I'm going to give an intro now to this uh very intense topic. The topic is I feel emotionally disconnected from rashana and yam kipper or I feel very negative very negative emotions. I'm triggered in a very negative way by these days by this time of the year. It's very difficult for me. It's emotionally extremely burdensome and maybe painful and maybe even worse for some people. And this is a special workshop, a prehash workshop for people who experience pain and anxiety and stress especially around this time of the year what we call the high holidays the elashipper etc. And we want to be here very real authentic very compassionate and most importantly very open. Everybody should So over the next 20 25 minutes, I'm going to address a few fundamental ideas that I think can be extremely extremely helpful. Oopsie. Sorry, my laptop just fell. That I think can be extremely helpful for all of us. And then we're going to go straight to questions. And as I said, everybody can ask whatever you want. There's no taboo. And you don't have to hold back from any question. Okay? This
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- 0:00Let me welcome everybody here at Fresh Start. Thank you very much Tova. Thank you very…
- 6:17the balat of and also in other works. The idea is as follows. The core of…
- 12:34trauma caused me addiction. My trauma caused me to shut down my emotions. My trauma caused…
- 18:50your deep deep profound energy. and confidence. Nobody can. But who is the king in my…
- 25:03were triggered in a very negative way. But I am asking you, I'm asking you, I'm…
- 31:35supposed to apologize for that. They didn't do it. Somebody ran to addiction because they had…
- 37:57ability to be able to see the true me everything. And that means first of all…
- 44:07Hashem. You're an adult child. Talk to him. Be honest with him. And then you won't…
- 50:13you. The mitzvah is the way you celebrate is through eating. If I am in a…
- 56:23know, I wonder what they're dealing with, but whatever. They didn't reach out to me, so…
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