A guided journey of return, resilience, and preparation for the new year while facing infertility or a complex journey to parenthood

Elul is traditionally a season of teshuva, a season of return.

But return can feel complicated after a year shaped by infertility, treatment, waiting, loss, or uncertainty.

The Yesh Tikva Elul Reflection Journal offers a place to enter this season honestly. You do not need to force gratitude. You do not need to find a lesson. And you do not need to have everything resolved before Rosh Hashanah.

Instead, this journal invites you to notice what you are carrying and what you may need now.

Inside the Journal

Across the weeks of Elul, you’ll explore:

• Returning to Yourself: Who are you beneath what this journey has asked of you?
• Returning to God: What does closeness mean when faith feels complicated?
• Returning to Community: Where do you feel seen, and what helps you belong?
• What Can Begin Again?: What has sustained you, and what do you want to protect?
• Setting Down and Carrying Forward: A gentle ritual for Erev Rosh Hashanah.

Each section includes Jewish text, reflection, and guided journaling prompts. There is also space to write.

You can move through one section each week. Or, you can go at your own pace. Skip what does not feel useful. Return to a page later. Simply sit with a question if that is what you need.

There is no “right” way to use this journal.

Most importantly, there is no particular emotional or spiritual place you need to reach by the new year.

You can begin exactly where you are.

Free PDF • Print or use digitally • Move through it at your own pace