Author / Rena

Shabbos was my Hebrew birthday. Happy birthday to me! To celebrate with you, I invite you to send me your #1 question — the one that sits at the intersection of your…

I was recently having a conversation with someone, and she shared something that mirrored my own experience. She told me she’d spent years doing talk methods. She’d also spent years trying somatic…

As practitioners, we often force a divide. We either work through a narrative cognitively to reframe it, or we drop the story entirely to only feel the somatic sensation. But in both…

Deep somatic work doesn’t have to take a full session. It doesn’t even have to take long. What we are looking for, for experiential work to be effective, are those few moments…

I was recently learning the Sifsei Chaim on zrizus. He described something over 40 years ago that neuroscience and psychology are only just beginning to understand. Because mankind is constructed from the…

So many of us became self-employed so we could have ownership over our time. Ownership over our life. The ability to create our own schedule. And on the one hand — how…

I’ve been self-employed since 2012. Fourteen and a half years. I didn’t always have a daily practice. For a long time, I didn’t. And I paid for it — I came to…

Here’s what happens in the body when we’re stuck in our work and shame is present. The nervous system detects something below the level of our conscious awareness. Before you’ve thought a…

When overwhelm shows up, it is not just a passing thought that you can easily change. It’s your nervous system shifting into fight-or-flight mode. Your physiology actually changes, going into the activated,…

Many of the women I work with are stuck in functional freeze. They’re showing up and delivering. From the outside, everything looks fine. But underneath, the nervous system is oscillating between fight/flight…