Our Stories
Here’s a peek into what past
participants have shared about
their Sod Ha’adam experience.
“My husband can't tell me enough how he feels that our children are blossoming, they are so much happier, secure, DEVELOPED AS PEOPLE - and I see it myself with my relationship with them.
I can enjoy them so much even when they are not behaving perfectly, I LIVE with who they really are, I'm not afraid of their weaknesses, I see with a clarity their strengths. My life has been completely transformed.
I constantly try to be in Shabbos mode even during hectic stressful times of the day - and the house is so much happier and calmer!!”
“I had an unbelievable visit with my grandmother who is קע”ה ninety five years old and not remembering things so well. I went to visit myself without kids or danishes like I used to bring.
As I walked there, I tried to understand the pain of what she’s going through - losing her own mind! It’s unimaginable pain! As I sat with her, I said to myself “I’m just going to enjoy whatever part of Bobby I can.
“She was so alive! We really connected.
Then she started singing old songs with all the words… It was such a special visit thanks to the skills I learned of understanding someone’s pain and also enjoying myself with another person.”
“I was amazed to see how differently I related to my playgroup children this year. I used to see it as a mostly physical and intellectual hard work, a necessary hishtadlus for parnassah.
I saw misbehavior as an additional burden. Now I approach my job as an opportunity to connect and uplift Yiddishe neshamos, to enrich their lives.
I see misbehavior as an opportunity to practice compassion, give them what they’re missing, and remind them that they’re really good.”
“Sod Ha’Adam has given me the understanding that Hashem wants us to express all of our personality- the fun, quirky side as well.
This realization was life-changing and made me so much more loving.”
“I dropped judgement on myself and on people around me. It’s very liberating not to judge. The yetzer hara still finds my address, it’s still work, but it pays.”
“Before I took the Sod Ha’adam course, life felt like one long to-do list, and I got overwhelmed a lot. Now I try to enjoy each thing I am doing and leave the rest to Hashem.
Everything gets done without the pressure.”
“This course has given me so much hope. Where I used to see ‘dysfunctional’ people and worry, I now find their strengths and believe, without the fear.
I know everyone has it in them!”
“Sod Ha’adam has helped me view the purity of the נשמה of a child who is very belligerent.”
I learned to reframe my attitudes toward the people I love and the challenges that relationships often bring. I am stunned at the positivity that gets reciprocated and the positive attitude it creates in my home.
As a practicing Life Coach for 7+ years, I have had the privilege of helping people resolve relationship conflicts, build self-worth and reach goals. It doesn't cease to amaze me how tapping into the magnificence of a person's Neshama and viewing the weakness as STRENGTH has the power to transform the person. This belief, used along with a powerful work-through has resulted in true miracles.
“My 19-year-old couldn’t find himself in any yeshiva. He was negative, weak, and pulling other bochurim down with him. Now, I cringe that I thought of him as weak: my perspective of my son has changed, and, slowly, so has he.
Today he became my most positive child, with a real love for people and Yiddishkeit. He’s the life of our family and everyone is pulled towards him and his sparkling personality.”
“For 6 years, I’ve been trying any therapy available for my daughter, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative. The concepts I learned in Sod Ha’adam naturally became a part of the way I related to her. Baruch Hashem, I finally see the light in her eyes.”
As a reading specialist, I deal with many complex cases that have already gone untreated for years. I thought I had seen everything, but I had never encountered such a hopelessly disabled reader as *one particular boy. In sheer desperation, I recalled what I had just heard at the Sod Ha’adam speech: That every aspect of a human being is intertwined, with emotions — including learning disabilities. So I asked the child’s mother if she’d be willing to undertake some extra steps for him, as described in the course… and… if I weren’t the child’s therapist, I would never have believed this – but within one week he was reading!
I learned to live and accept my situation. Emunah, bitachon, tears and tefillos pulled me through every day. And then I came across Sod Ha’adam. Finally, there was something tangible — Torah-true, practical guidance that actually changed my situation. It’s incredible to see how the wisdom of the Torah applies in 2019. Finally, I have clarity and answers.
My husband – and marriage – needed a big boost. Having just heard and been awed by Sod Ha’adam, I figured I’d try out one of its teachings. To my utter astonishment, not only did some of the desired results quickly begin to materialize, but after the first week or two, my husband commented, ‘I don’t know why, but for the first time in years I no longer seem to need a midday nap.
I had learned Shemiras Halashon and Ahavas Habrios over and over again. But after hearing the Sod Ha’adam speech only once, I gained an entirely new perspective. My relationships with others are now in a completely new dimension. All those near and dear to me are the direct beneficiaries of Sod Ha’adam – but none as much as me!
I am amazed at what happened to my family. I now realize that it’s not about my teaching them how to be happy, loving and accepting; it’s about my becoming all that, so that it naturally just spills over onto my family and others.
How can I thank Hashem enough for the total turnabout that took place between my daughter and me? My new understanding of her has transformed our previous relationship — cold silences and silent fury — into a beautiful, uplifting, flowing relationship, resulting in an outpouring of her tremendous positive energies.
I was recently brainstorming with a group of choshuve mechanchos how to mentor teenagers who are addicted to technology. ‘Step Number 1,’ I told them, ‘is to talk to Rebbetzin Tukchinsky about her Sod Ha’adam guidelines that address dealing with such teenagers. From there, B’ezras Hashem we will proceed successfully.’
As a practicing therapist for over a decade, I treat many different emotional health issues. But for the first time in my life, through Sod Ha’adam, I finally realize that every aspect of a Yid — his or her physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, behavioral, etc. — are all one single entity! It has transformed the way I approach each client, from treating issues as individual and disconnected, to a truly holistic, whole-person treatment.
I’m feeling a new smooth flow of life. Sod Ha’adam touches upon every part of me: my feelings, thinking, goals, middos, and avodas Hashem. Guilt has turned into acceptance; anger into understanding; anxiety into tranquility. I now know that my world and the world of Hakadosh Baruch Hu is one. I never realized how wholesome and true Jewish life really is.
“My 19-year-old couldn’t find himself in any yeshiva. He was negative, weak, and pulling other bochurim down with him. Now, I cringe that I thought of him as weak: my perspective of my son has changed, and, slowly, so has he.
Today he became my most positive child, with a real love for people and Yiddishkeit. He’s the life of our family and everyone is pulled towards him and his sparkling personality.”
“For 6 years, I’ve been trying any therapy available for my daughter, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative. The concepts I learned in Sod Ha’adam naturally became a part of the way I related to her. Baruch Hashem, I finally see the light in her eyes.”
As a reading specialist, I deal with many complex cases that have already gone untreated for years. I thought I had seen everything, but I had never encountered such a hopelessly disabled reader as *one particular boy. In sheer desperation, I recalled what I had just heard at the Sod Ha’adam speech: That every aspect of a human being is intertwined, with emotions — including learning disabilities. So I asked the child’s mother if she’d be willing to undertake some extra steps for him, as described in the course… and… if I weren’t the child’s therapist, I would never have believed this – but within one week he was reading!
I learned to live and accept my situation. Emunah, bitachon, tears and tefillos pulled me through every day. And then I came across Sod Ha’adam. Finally, there was something tangible — Torah-true, practical guidance that actually changed my situation. It’s incredible to see how the wisdom of the Torah applies in 2019. Finally, I have clarity and answers.
My husband – and marriage – needed a big boost. Having just heard and been awed by Sod Ha’adam, I figured I’d try out one of its teachings. To my utter astonishment, not only did some of the desired results quickly begin to materialize, but after the first week or two, my husband commented, ‘I don’t know why, but for the first time in years I no longer seem to need a midday nap.
I had learned Shemiras Halashon and Ahavas Habrios over and over again. But after hearing the Sod Ha’adam speech only once, I gained an entirely new perspective. My relationships with others are now in a completely new dimension. All those near and dear to me are the direct beneficiaries of Sod Ha’adam – but none as much as me!
I am amazed at what happened to my family. I now realize that it’s not about my teaching them how to be happy, loving and accepting; it’s about my becoming all that, so that it naturally just spills over onto my family and others.
How can I thank Hashem enough for the total turnabout that took place between my daughter and me? My new understanding of her has transformed our previous relationship — cold silences and silent fury — into a beautiful, uplifting, flowing relationship, resulting in an outpouring of her tremendous positive energies.
I was recently brainstorming with a group of choshuve mechanchos how to mentor teenagers who are addicted to technology. ‘Step Number 1,’ I told them, ‘is to talk to Rebbetzin Tukchinsky about her Sod Ha’adam guidelines that address dealing with such teenagers. From there, B’ezras Hashem we will proceed successfully.’
As a practicing therapist for over a decade, I treat many different emotional health issues. But for the first time in my life, through Sod Ha’adam, I finally realize that every aspect of a Yid — his or her physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, behavioral, etc. — are all one single entity! It has transformed the way I approach each client, from treating issues as individual and disconnected, to a truly holistic, whole-person treatment.
I’m feeling a new smooth flow of life. Sod Ha’adam touches upon every part of me: my feelings, thinking, goals, middos, and avodas Hashem. Guilt has turned into acceptance; anger into understanding; anxiety into tranquility. I now know that my world and the world of Hakadosh Baruch Hu is one. I never realized how wholesome and true Jewish life really is.