Chaya Barash

At the beginning of 2025, I made a commitment to finish and publish the book I had been writing about storytelling and healing. I signed up Luvvie Ajayi Jones’ Book Academy to make me accountable for finishing it this calendar year.    Luvvie’s course and community are extremely powerful and generous, and I strongly recommend The … Read more

I feel like every spring there is a day when the colors in my neighborhood are so vibrant I want to dance … and then, a week later or so, it vanishes …  After I recorded this video last month, I started meditating on how each of those spring days is really unique, how it’s … Read more

Last week, my husband Jed and I were at a dinner honoring Dune Thorne, Congresswoman Sarah McBride, Kristen Caskey, Adrienne Warren and the Women’s Project Theater.  One of the questions that often shows up when you’re meeting new people is “how did you meet?”  “I wasn’t supposed to be there when I met Jed …” … Read more

“Someday you must tell me,” my friend texts, “to whom I owe thanks for introducing us to one another.” And so I answered … “The Universe connected us. “ Here’s what happened … I was writing about Gaza and working through a lot of childhood beliefs that didn’t serve me as an adult in the … Read more