I’m Learning to Fight Like Girl

I’ve been writing a lot over the past two years about protecting our children from sexual abuse. But it’s just as crucial that we women learn to protect ourselves. According to the New York Times, 1 in 5 American women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes, and far higher numbers suffer from other forms or physical and emotional abuse and harrassment.

B”H, yesterday I fulfilled a dream I’ve had for a while now… I began an intense 25-hour IMPACT women’s self-defense at El HaLev in Jerusalem. Watch this video (from an IMPACT course in Washington) to see some of the crazy punching and kicking I was up to yesterday…