Author / Rena
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Embodiment is the feminine path to Menuchas Hanefesh
Someone asked me after Monday’s Soul Tilling class: “I was working with the emotion of anger and feeling it through when resistance came up. What do I do then?” Isn’t it amazing…
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How the war disrupted my interoception + workshop today
Since the war, my body signals have been…weird. Brain fog. Exhaustion. A creativity that went quiet. Hunger and fullness signals have been off. This is what extreme, sustained stress does to the…
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I spoke for just a minute — and it’s live now
The JAM Drop is live — and I’d love for you to hear what I shared. I was given one minute to answer the question: “What’s one thing mothers today must know?”…
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I have one minute for you
Something exciting is coming your way — and it literally takes just a minute. I’m one of 30 women sharing a single minute of wisdom in The JAM Drop, a free audio-only…
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This is not a competition
This one started as a WhatsApp status post. If you want to catch these as they come, reach out to me at 347-871-1848 and I’ll make sure you’re on my contacts list.…
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What war brings to the surface
Twenty+ years in Israel. I’d never lived through a war or even a siren until last year’s Hezbollah conflict shook my entire system. The sirens terrified me. I barely left our mamad.…
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[Recorded Practice] Coming home to your body after the chaos
Purim is over. Your nervous system might not know that yet. The body doesn’t reset the moment the seuda ends. It takes time to unwind from noise, from running, from giving, from…
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You’re not the first
On this week’s podcast, my husband mentioned something that I found genuinely grounding. The Mishna Berura – written a little over a century ago – already felt the need to address the…
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The joy gap
The instinct when we feel stifled is to try to remove the stifled thing — to push it out of the way so the joy can come in. But that’s not actually…
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When it’s too much
There’s a concept I come back to a lot: the window of Menuchas Hanefesh. The range within which your nervous system can be with an experience without being overtaken by it. The…
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