300 - “I Feel Like…” - The Hidden Difference Between Thoughts and Feelings
The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser
Release Date: 06/08/2025
326 - Why he hasn't stepped up
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325 - Screaming with rage
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324 - Why you feel worse after deep work
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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
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320 - The slowness paradox
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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_outlineHow often do we say “I feel like…” - but what we’re actually expressing is a thought, an opinion, or a judgment?
In this live conversation, my husband Rabbi Yonasan Reiser and I sat down to explore the deeper meaning behind that common phrase. We unpacked the subtle but powerful difference between thoughts and feelings, and why this distinction matters so much in our relationships, our self-awareness, and even our avodas Hashem.
Topics we touched on include:
– Why it feels safer to say “I feel like…” instead of naming what we actually feel
– The role of vulnerability in honest communication
– A Shabbos story that surprised me with just how many feelings were tangled inside
– How unmet needs show up in relationships, especially between men and women
– What it means to receive and give from a place of wholeness, through the lens of the Kabbalistic concepts of mekabel and mashpia
– Why having the right words for our emotions can create real relief and connection
– And how using Nonviolent Communication in our marriage gave us a shared language to express what’s really going on beneath the surface
Whether you're new to this kind of emotional work or deep in it, we hope this conversation brings more clarity, self-compassion, and maybe even new language to help you feel heard, by yourself and the people you love.