We wish ouramil amifriends a
prosperous New Year
very health
DOREEN, NIARVII>AND DAVID JEREMY ESTRIN
SAN DIEGO, CA
children, allowing them to ex-
press moods by merely pointing
to the appropriate face on the
ruler, and the 26-card pack of
mental health cards, all have one
thing in common; they offer
quick, viable, practical solutions.
EMETT was founded in the
late 1970s when Ms. Adahan,
then living in the United States,
took the highly successful four-
step recovery program, a practi-
cal psychology method developed
by Dr. Abraham Low which
breaks down problems into com-
ponents, and began incorporat-
ing it with Jewish principles.
Since then, she has devoted a
good deal of her time to refining,
expanding and teaching EMETT
techniques.
A tireless teacher, writer, and
lecturer, Ms. Adahan today lives
in Jerusalem with her husband
and four children, overseeing the
50-group EMETT network (a sis-
ter living in the United States co-
ordinates the groups in America,
England and Australia) and per-
forming charitable deeds that in-
clude the sorting and distribution
of clothes and funds to the needy
and several hours of daily coun-
seling by phone.
Much of her work today is di-
rected toward battered and aban-
doned women, who are the
recipients of most of the money
she earns and collects. She is firm
in her rejection of the advice
abused women are sometimes
given by counselors — that they
should "make themselves small
so their husbands feel big." "As-
sisted suicide" Ms. Adahan calls
the advice.
Though her books, lectures
and group sessions brim with
techniques for enhancing "shalom
bayit," peace in the home, the
clarion call of her life and work
has been to recognize abuse in all
its forms and degrees and to take
appropriate action.
In 1987, Ms. Adahan's first
ground-breaking book, EMETT,
appeared and six books have fol-
lowed, including Raising Chil-
dren to Care and Living With
Difficult People, Including Your-
self. These are encyclopedic and
eclectic works, brimming with
Chasidic tales, sophisticated psy-
chological insights and analyses
of everyday problems, and offer
innumerable suggestions to ease
stress and pain.
Though originally intended for
the Torah-observant, EMETT
has also reached secular Jews
and even non-Jews. Says Ms.
Adahan, "Many of those who
have read my books have realized
that Judaism contains profound
psychological insights."
Miriam Adahan is not without
her own dreams: to train more
EMETT leaders, to reduce child
abuse by teaching parents the
"skills to love unconditionally and
discipline with love." Her deep-
est wish, however, is to establish
a healing center.
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BOCA RATON; FL
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FRONT OF YOU.
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chances of developing heart
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A Very Happy and
Healthy New Year
to All Our
Friends and Family.
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