Jennifer Mann, LCSW

12/14/2025

✨🕊️🌿 We are so excited to welcome Chava Rabinowitz to the Inner Calm team! 🌿🕊️✨

Imagine your daughter learning how to truly relax 🤍
How to exhale the noise, the pressure, and the overwhelm 🌬️✨
And begin to hear her own true voice again 🌿💫

Through a gentle breathwork journey, calm becomes familiar 🤍🌿
Safety settles into the body 🕊️
And peace becomes something she carries with her ✨🌬️
It’s pure peace 🤍✨

✨🕊️ Calm belongs to her 🕊️✨

Chava Rabinowitz is a Relationship Coach and certified Somatic Breathwork Practitioner with additional training in Jungian coaching, hypnosis, and NLP 🧠✨
She has dedicated her career to helping people regulate their nervous systems, release stress, and cultivate the skills needed to connect open-heartedly and vulnerably 🤍🌬️

She specializes in guiding individuals toward clarity and emotional spaciousness by teaching them how to use their own breath as a tool for emotional regulation and inner safety 🌿✨
Her calming presence and intuitive approach allow those she works with to feel supported, seen, and empowered — ultimately helping them live more authentically and confidently 🤍🕊️

At Inner Calm, breathwork is age-based and developmentally informed 🌱
🌸 Younger children experience playful, rhythmic, body-based breathing 🦋
🌿 Tweens and teens learn intentional breath tools for stress, anxiety, and emotional intensity 🌬️✨

✨🕊️ Calm belongs to her 🕊️✨



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12/12/2025

12/09/2025

When you realize you have no control over whatever you’re working so hard to make better, smaller, more manageable, less visible…. You are faced with two things: the reality of the situation, and the real you. The beautiful, the difficult. Something I try to practice for the things I ruminate about and ultimately cannot control (though my ruminations are trying) is the following:
“You are safe.”
“You can put this away, in a beautiful strong box. It’s not going anywhere. You are safe now.”

Jen

12/07/2025

12/05/2025

We continually run from the things that make us anxious. We fix, fight against, or deny. I imagine a life where we completely let it flow, let it be, sit in and cope with truth, share the truth with ourselves and our children and loved ones and just flow like this. I call this “letting go.”

11/24/2025

💔 A Follow-Up on Parental Alienation: For the Parents Living the Storm

Last week I wrote about parental alienation.
Today I want to speak to the parents who are living it — the ones whose hearts are breaking in slow motion.

To the parent whose child is chronically angry or cold…
To the parent who’s dismissed, mocked, ignored, blamed…
To the parent who feels erased, misrepresented, misunderstood…
This is for you. 🤍

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😣 When Your Child Treats You Like the Enemy

There is nothing that prepares you for:
• the disrespect
• the hostility
• the instant defensiveness
• the eye rolls or the silence
• the phone calls that leave you shaking
• the sense that everyone has an opinion about you
• the fear that you’re losing your child

It’s a grief that lives inside the body.
It steals sleep, steals appetite, steals confidence.
It makes you question everything you’ve ever done right.
It makes you feel like you’re parenting in a glass box while the world watches and judges.

This is not “normal parenting stress.”
It’s trauma.
Real trauma.

And it deserves to be named as such.

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🫂 You Need Holding Too

Parents in these situations need so much support — far more than anyone acknowledges.

You need:

✨ Rest that’s uninterrupted.
✨ Therapy that understands trauma and systems.
✨ Community with people who get it.
✨ Soft places to land.
✨ Someone who reminds you that you’re a good parent.
✨ Permission to not hold everything together every minute of every day.

Because you cannot withstand this alone.
And you shouldn’t have to.

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🌿 Your Steadiness Still Matters — Even Without Guarantees

It’s true:
We hope children come back.
We hope they see clearly someday.
We hope they remember who showed up with love and who showed up with chaos.

But we cannot promise that.
And saying otherwise would be dishonest.

What is true — and what countless stories show — is that:
• kids grow,
• perspectives shift,
• narratives unravel,
• and truth has a quiet, steady way of resurfacing.

But the outcome is not in your control.
And that uncertainty is its own kind of heartbreak.

Still… your presence, your calm, your regulated nervous system, your refusal to vilify the other parent — these things give your child a fighting chance at clarity someday.
They protect your integrity.
They protect your heart.
They protect the relationship, even if from afar.

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💛 If No One Has Said It: You Are a Good Parent

You’re doing something brutally hard.
You’re loving a child who sometimes cannot love you back right now.
You’re fighting for connection without fighting with them.
You’re showing up with compassion while being torn apart inside.

That is extraordinary.
And it deserves to be honored.

11/20/2025

Parental alienation has become an epidemic. It is so widespread. Something that many people don’t understand is that for so many kids and alienated parents, this dynamic began long before the divorce. Alienation happpens amongst married families too. Yes! When a parent confides in the child or regularly puts down the other parent, makes the child quesrion the motivations of the other parent, the character of the other parent, shares adult information with the child about the other parent, this is alienation regardless of marital status. Alienation is child abuse.

To anyone who is or ever has been alienated, every day that you live, you are living with your child HELD IN HOSTAGE. You may choose not to go to court because the alienator will use court against you to your children, making them not want you even more. Or, you may not have the means to go to court.

Schools, synagogues and therapists alike do not know how to work with alienation and it’s a massive problem. This is not “drama” to be avoided. This is not a typical “he said/she said” problem. Alienation is child abuse. When a child is in what’s called a LOYALTY BIND for having a relationship with his mother or father, THIS IS ABUSE! Every week, month and year that goes by where the child and parent do not have a relationship is LOSS.

We must do better! My next few posts are going to be all about alienation! How to spot it. And what we can try to do about it to save these kids (and parents.)

And yes, sometimes there are difficult parents whose children have chosen to walk away for self preservation, claiming parental alienation and this makes it very tricky to detect and it’s part of why no one gets involved. They are very rare and NOT a reason to shy away as a community, shul or school and certainly as therapists.

I once worked with a therapist, collaborating for sibling clients we shared. I knew immediately that we were dealing with alienation. Without using the word, in a parent session I gently brought up the experience of his child and what the child shared. I gently asked him about it. And immediately began the excuses and I saw the anger and the demand for loyalty from his son. I saw the vitriol seek out from his mouth and eyeballs and the thinking was entitled. Classic abusive thinking. Eventually this parent pulled the child from therapy with me while the sibling remained in therapy with her therapist.

I never know if I handled that right. Because ultimately my client was pulled. But I do feel good that I validated the child’s experience. That he knows another adult sees what he sees and that he knew I spoke to his dad on his behalf. But I never did see that child again. And that is how I know that man was indeed an alienator.

I want us all to figure out how to change this.

Jennifer Mann LCSW

11/19/2025

Meet Arielle Chava Taitz… head of art expression at The Inner Calm Project! Arielle’s experience and trainings are second to none. She’s also one of the kindest and gentlest people I’ve ever met. Registration opens soon!

11/19/2025

Based on Divorced by Dr. Shalom Augenbaum

A gentle space to talk, process, and connect with other growth-oriented divorcees. We’ll use the book to explore identity, shame, healing, community, dating, and rebuilding your life with dignity and clarity.

You’ll walk away with:
✨ Support and validation
✨ New insight into your story
✨ Tools for healing
✨ Meaningful connection with people who truly get it

🗓 4 Tuesdays starting Dec 2
⏰ 8:30 PM
📍 Cedarhurst or Zoom
👥 Age groups: 20s–30s & 30s–50s
💛 Tuition: $300 total

📘 Get the book!

Facilitated by
Jennifer Mann, LCSW
📧 JenniferMannLCSW@gmail.com
📱 718-908-0512

Message me to join. You’re welcome here.

11/19/2025

Based on Divorced; Beyond the Mizbeiach’s Tears by Dr. Shalom Augenbaum. Dr. Augenbaum is a therapist and divorced (like me!) I haven’t been able to put it down. Thank you to a dear friend for telling me about the book!

A gentle space to talk, process, and connect with other growth-oriented divorcees. We’ll use the book to explore identity, shame, healing, community, dating, and rebuilding your life with dignity and clarity.

You’ll walk away with:
✨ Support and validation
✨ New insight into your story
✨ Tools for healing
✨ Meaningful connection with people who truly get it

🗓 4 Tuesdays starting Dec 2
⏰ 8:30 PM
📍 Cedarhurst or Zoom
👥 Age groups: 20s–30s & 30s–50s
💛 Tuition: $300 total
🫶Open to divorced men and women

📘 Get the book!

Facilitated by
Jennifer Mann, LCSW
📧 JenniferMannLCSW@gmail.com
📱 718-908-0512

Message me to join. You’re welcome here.