Shira Aharony - Connecting Threads

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he blog is a long-standing home for my writing across different platforms, and I’m excited to invite you to visit

This is a chance to get a closer look at my approach as a therapist for teens and young adults, and to discover the unique and powerful benefits of creative therapeutic work.
If we haven’t met yet and you’re curious about how I began writing – you’ll find that and more in the post ‘Glad You’re Here!’.
You’re warmly invited to read, share your thoughts (even on older posts – I read everything), and reach out.

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The Date That Will Make the Difference

I realize this isn’t exactly a time that inspires going out, and there’s no shortage of unexpected changes and complications. But maybe that’s exactly why it’s so important right now to initiate and create opportunities

Supporting Teens Through New Year’s Celebrations

Tonight, like every night, but perhaps a little more, I ask you to open your eyes and listen closely to what’s happening outside. Teenagers, just looking for reasons to celebrate, went out today to mark

It’s Never Too Late to Learn a New Language

"Therapy is a language that stays in the soul long after it ends. I know this from my own experience as a client, and thankfully, I also hear it from clients and parents who get

“But how does it help?”

What real benefit can come from creating—working with materials—beyond simple enjoyment? How is art-making connected to therapy? How can it be that creating art could act as a kind of medicine, a solution to a

“It’s Not a Big Deal – But It Might Really Help”: Talking Therapy with Teens

There are quite a few things in life that we know are important, beneficial, or will ultimately improve our lives—but we still postpone or avoid them for long periods of time. Why? Because they involve

From the Beginning

That moment when I’m standing by the door, just a minute before a first meeting, makes my mind race at 200 km/h—trying to connect the few known dots from our earlier phone call into some

The Colors of Hila: When Material Meets Muse

Let me begin with a slightly odd confession: When someone teaches me something new or introduces me to something I wasn’t familiar with—I immediately name it after them. For example, I don’t have Alcea setosa

Glad You are here!

I’ve always written. Poems, heartfelt birthday wishes, youth group activities, love letters, long lists of dreams and personal boundaries, reflections, reminders, travel journals, and memories…

Light, Oil, and a Little Self-Compassion

Every year, as the holidays approach, the voices of teenagers rise again—they become tense, as if preparing for an attack. This “battle” has two sides: The buffet table itself, and the adults who suffer just

Youth Going Astray

A teenage boy gets up at one minute to eight. Not brushing his hair, not brushing his teeth. He’s been in the same pajamas for two, maybe three days. The house is quiet—the younger siblings

Second Wave

If during the first lockdown there was a general atmosphere of “making lemonade”—making the most of the situation and the time at home with the kids—filled with recipes for churning butter and sewing clothes from

Grandma Ruti’s Marionette

I have Grandma Ruti, a true Tel Aviv-born ninja at heart (and currently a resident of Modi'in) who’s eighty-something and a bit more. Every time we meet, I can’t believe her age—eighty-something—and that I’m in

Hope for the Future

I struggle with all those lemonade theories—finding the good and seeing the opportunity. After sitting with this question for a few days as it kept surfacing in my mind, one of the most important answers

Getting Started

I decided to do what I can in a situation like this—and simply describe how I prepare for the upcoming period, in hopes of helping my kids avoid climbing the walls (or at least climb

The Night Before September 1st Party

It’s been almost twenty years since I finished high school, and still—no matter what—on the night before the school year starts, I’m filled with unease. I can’t sleep, I wander around the house like a

Laugh It Out

To me, humor is a very serious matter. It’s an art form—something worth incorporating into life just as much as physical exercise. And somehow, physical exercise has earned a positive reputation as something that contributes

Butterflies

For all those times when parents of teenagers come to me, frustrated that their child is completely off the path they had envisioned for them—that they’re being defiant on purpose, digging in their heels, and

The Secret Drawer

In the large table at the center of the room, there’s a secret drawer. A small drawer that rests on two wooden rails—not on a track—and it’s “secret” because it’s located right in the center

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