Direction: Finding Your Way In Relationships, Parenting and Personal Growth

As Orthodox therapists who counsel individuals and families, we have observed that people today feel conflicted, concerned and confused about how to bring their children up with the morals and structure our tradition has to offer, while at the same time making accommodations to their children's emotional needs. In this book, we seek to address the areas of the intersection between religion, values, and feelings, and share our discoveries that come from our personal and professional experience as Orthodox Jews and psychotherapists. In these chapters, we shall discuss typical relationship issues, parenting problems and personal conflicts that we have seen repeatedly in our therapy sessions and correspondence with many of our readers. This book is written to serve as a guide to help sincere and devoted religious people resolve psychological and social conflicts within the parameters of their religious values. We address the areas of intersection between religion, values, and feelings, and share our discoveries that come from our personal and professional experience as Orthodox Jews and psychotherapists. We will discuss typical relationship issues, parenting problems, and personal conflicts that we have seen repeatedly in our therapy sessions and in correspondence with many of our readers.