Author / Rena

Yesterday I said the way out is through the feeling. And also? Feeling can be scary. Even now, after years of doing this work, sometimes when I sit down to be with…

Last Thursday we gave it a name: interoception — the body’s inner listening system. Today we went one layer deeper, into the felt sense — that vague, pre-verbal something that lives just…

When I was a young teen, I suffered from chronic migraines and back pain. I later added mono and and a host of other physical symptoms. What I’ve learned since then is…

There’s a dance. First: express, express, express. Purge what’s at the surface. What I already know I’m feeling. This is what I think about that situation. This is what I’m feeling towards…

This is a practice in radical self-honesty: a gentle invitation to look underneath the surface, with curiosity and compassion, not judgment. Find a comfortable position. You can close your eyes, or soften…

When we don’t give ourselves what we need or when we’ve built a life around not fully acknowledging what’s really going on inside of us, what ends up happening is we have…

We’re not going to get fluent in the language of our bodies, our emotions, our inner world, if we’re not willing to make mistakes about what we’re experiencing. As a metaphor, sometimes…

If we have anger towards another person, and we don’t allow ourselves to feel it, that anger can turn into hatred. And while Chazal talk about anger being a bad, bad middah,…

Most of us know that when someone asks us how we’re doing, we’re not telling the full truth. But there’s another level to this: when we ask ourselves the same question, we’re…

Someone asked me after Monday’s Soul Tilling class: “I have a hard time doing this work on my own. What do you suggest?” Here’s the practical answer first: there are more ways…