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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…