297 - I thought I was past this...
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
Release Date: 03/16/2025
326 - Why he hasn't stepped up
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
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325 - Screaming with rage
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324 - Why you feel worse after deep work
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
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323 - Holding Your Own Emotions vs. Managing Everyone Else's
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
Ever left a therapy session or workshop feeling more activated than when you started? Like you've opened Pandora's box and don't know how to close it? This is one of the most common concerns about doing deep healing work: once you start feeling, everything comes up. Your system says "oh good, you're ready" and brings more to the surface. In this conversation, my husband, Rabbi Yonasan Reiser, joins me as we explore what to do with all that activation. We discuss why some modalities are so careful they keep you stuck, what it means to find "the right distance" from your experience, and how to...
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322 - Why this isn't mainstream
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321 - Being received
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
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320 - The slowness paradox
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
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319 - Wrong tools
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318 - A cognitive trap
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317 - For the Deeply Sensitive: A Missing Tool for 25% of Us
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
Have you ever felt stuck trying to create distance from overwhelming thoughts and emotions? Like you understood the concept of "not being your feelings" intellectually, but couldn't actually experience it in your body? In this conversation, Rena shares how she discovered a practice that finally gave her what years of other approaches couldn't: the ability to actually be with what was happening inside her without getting swallowed by it or having to push it away. Her husband, Rabbi Yonasan Reiser, asks the questions many would wonder: What makes this different from meditation or therapy? Why...
info_outlineYou’ve done the work. You’ve learned the tools. And then—suddenly—you find yourself right back in an old pattern. The frustration creeps in: Why am I still here?
In this episode, I share a recent experience of falling into that familiar cycle and what it taught me about healing, patience, and self-trust. Because healing isn’t about never struggling again—it’s about how we meet ourselves in those moments.