Healing from Zionism

Come as you are. This is a supportive space for people carrying the grief and moral injury caused by their morals and values — in their families, their communities, and their own sense of self.

This work is for you if:

You have said the thing out loud — in your family, your community, your workplace — and lost something because of it.
You feel shame or embarrassed that you can’t just “get over it” or “move on” after a rupture where political differences arise.
You are tired of faking it as you sit through holidays and gatherings, manage your reactions, shrink yourself into the shape of someone easier for others to accept.
You feel exhausted from being the one who sees clearly in a room full of people who don't.
You've lost friendships, distanced from family, or quietly stepped away from communities that once felt like home because of your morals and values.
You feel you are carrying a grief that feels like it doesn't have a name — because the people around you don't see it as loss.

This is moral injury. It is a recognized form of psychological and spiritual harm — and it is exactly what happens when the values you hold most sacred are violated by the people you love or the community you were taught to trust.

You are mourning something real: the loss of belonging, the fracture of identity, the painful process of untangling what you were handed from what you actually believe.

You don't have to keep carrying this alone.

"Working with Alison was the first time I felt like someone truly understood the specific grief of this — not just politically, but spiritually and in my body. She held it all."

—Coaching Client

My approach is:

Grounded in attachment theory, the psychology of moral injury, and evidence-based frameworks for grief and transition
Informed by Jewish liturgical tradition, interspiritual practice, and the ancient technology of ritual as a container for change
Designs personalized rituals to mark endings, honor loss, and open space for what comes next
Weaves creative and embodied practices — fiber arts, collage, writing, and making — into the grief process as tools for meaning-making and release
Trained to work with the whole person — mind, body, and spirit — through coaching, somatic awareness, and ceremonial practice
Skilled at naming what doesn't yet have language: community estrangement, political grief, the losses that don't come with funerals
Committed to moving through grief rather than around it, with rigor, tenderness, and clear structure

Individual Coaching

One-on-one support for people doing the deep work of moving through moral injury — processing grief, navigating family and community rupture, and rebuilding a Jewish identity rooted in your own values.

Sessions are held over Zoom and are tailored to where you are in your journey.

My approach draws on spiritual technologies for grief work, somatic and body-based practices, Jewish ritual and textual tradition, and the latest psychology research on moral injury and political grief.

This is not therapy, and it is not political education. It is a supported, paced, trauma-informed process for people who are ready to move — not just understand.

Let's find out if this is right for you — book a free discovery call.

No obligation. The call is for both of us to see if this is the right fit.

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Group Journey (coming soon)

There is something that can happen in a small, carefully held group that cannot happen alone: the recognition that your grief is not only yours.

This is a five-session group process for Jewish people ready to move through this grief in community.

Drawing on spiritual technologies, grief work, somatic practice, Jewish ritual, and emerging research on moral injury and political grief, this journey is designed to help you move from fragmentation toward wholeness — and from private pain toward collective capacity.

Groups are kept intentionally small.

The container is held with care.

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I’ll reach out personally when enrollment opens.

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About Alison Avigayil

I am a rabbinical student, certified health and wellness coach, and grief practitioner specializing in political grief. I am the founder of the Social Change Sanctuary, an interfaith community focused on grief and gratitude practices, and the creator of Hodaya: A Journal of Grief & Gratitude.

I have walked this road myself — losing relationships, community, and professional opportunities as a result of seeing Zionism clearly and refusing to stay silent. I know what it costs. I also know what becomes possible on the other side.

My work draws on Jewish tradition, contemporary grief theory, somatic and behavioral approaches, and the emerging research on moral injury and political grief. I bring all of it — the scholarly, the spiritual, and the deeply personal — into the container I hold for others.

I have over two decades of experience in human rights work focused on American and Jewish relationships to Israel and Palestine, including work with Jewish Voice for Peace, 7amleh, and the Tides Center. My writing on political grief, Jewish identity, and moral injury has appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, and Yes! Magazine.

This is my work to do. I am honored to do it alongside you.

You can read a bit more about my personal story here.

Hodaya: A Journal of Grief & Gratitude

Not ready to book?

Take your time. When you’re ready, I’ll be here.

If you want to stay connected to this conversation — grief as a spiritual practice, Jewish tradition as a resource for political healing, the slow work of rebuilding after rupture — you're welcome to follow my writing.

I publish Hodaya: A Journal of Grief & Gratitude on Substack, where I write at the intersection of personal loss, collective mourning, and Jewish practice.

Pricing

I use a values-based sliding scale grounded in both income and wealth awareness. You know your circumstances best — and your choice helps me offer accessible rates to others.

Sessions are offered on a sliding scale based on income and wealth.

For people in the global north $65 - $250 per hour.

We'll design something together based on where you are and what you need.

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Let’s get to know each other and see where our mystery may lead.

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Healing from Zionism

This work is for you if:

You have said the thing out loud — in your family, your community, your workplace — and lost something because of it.

You feel shame or embarrassed that you can’t just “get over it” or “move on” after a rupture where political differences arise.

You are tired of faking it as you sit through holidays and gatherings, manage your reactions, shrink yourself into the shape of someone easier for others to accept.

You feel exhausted from being the one who sees clearly in a room full of people who don't.

You've lost friendships, distanced from family, or quietly stepped away from communities that once felt like home because of your morals and values.

You feel you are carrying a grief that feels like it doesn't have a name — because the people around you don't see it as loss.