One Heart Is Enough

I assumed my life would basically look like the life I had growing up.

Real Life, LGBTQIA+Jena SchwartzApril 14, 2022family, family history, memoir, Marriage, marriage, remarriage, Codependence, Healing, healing, self-inquiry Comment

Now, Next, and Healing Trauma

Now calls on me to tap into my inner stability. This feels so healing. It's both the hardest and the easiest thing.

Coaching, ObservationsJena SchwartzJune 10, 2021healing, trauma, intergenerational trauma, anxiety, Slowing Down, Now, Being present, practice, striving Comments

Broken Glass

Like glass, I feel very breakable and very strong these days, a strange, living contradiction, a container of Whitman-esque multitudes.

ObservationsJena SchwartzSeptember 10, 2019freewrite, unedited, writing prompt, writing practice, broken glass, anxiety, broken, whole, healing, wholenessComment

Notes After Surgery (Life Is Not a Given)

I stand on the shoulders of those who embodied this most; I can only hope my actions align with my innermost heart, the blood of my ancestors, those whose minds may have been filled with doubt but kept walking anyway, those whose names are found on the train manifests to Auschwitz, those who braided the bread and lit the candles and buried the dead and praised the living.

Real Life, ResistanceJena SchwartzJune 26, 2019Wayfair, immigration, melanoma, recovery, healing, politics, religion, islam, judaism, prayer, loss, ancestors, women's lives Comments

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