The Embodied Jewish Woman with Rena Reiser

374 - Selling without Urgency

What does it mean to create safety in your business, and what happens when we get it wrong? In this episode of the Embodied Business series, Rabbi Reiser and I sit down

373 - The 70% Rule and What Good Somatic Training Looks Like

This week, my husband Rabbi Yonasan Reiser and I talked about something I get asked about fairly often: how to choose a somatic training program. My answer might surpri

372 - Are You Serving Your Clients or Losing Yourself?

When someone comes to you with a request or a demand, there are two things you can do: support or acquiesce. Supporting means both people exist. You're here, they're he

371 - The Edge in Focusing And What Therapy Is Actually for

What is therapy actually for? This week, we got into one of the questions I think about most,  and it led us somewhere really unexpected. We started with the idea of "t

370 - The Energy You Broadcast Is the Business You Build

Is your voice betraying your nervous system? Because there's a good chance it is, and it's worth paying attention to. This week's episode is part of the ongoing busines

369 - Why Earth Types Hold On (And How to Let Go)

In this episode, I sit down with my husband, Rabbi Yonasan Reiser, to explore four personality elements—fire, air, water, and earth—focusing on the complexity of Earth ty

368 - The Invisible Drain: Why the Masculine Business Blueprint is Quietly Burning You Out

Running your own business was supposed to feel like freedom. So why does it sometimes feel like the loneliest, most triggering relationship in your life? In this episod

367 - The Missing Piece: Helping Clients Access Their Bodies When They Can't

Many practitioners are taught that the key to therapeutic change is helping clients drop into their bodies to access a "felt sense." But what do you do when a client simp

366 - Beyond the Protocol: The 30-Second Shift CBT and Somatic Work Are Missing

We've all been there: guiding a client through a protocol only to feel like we're still not getting anywhere, or maybe finding ourselves stuck in our own patterns despite

365 - Driving with Your Foot on the Gas and Brakes: Why You're Stuck in Functional Freeze

We're pulling back the curtain on how subconscious patterns like fawning, people-pleasing, and body judgment are actually desperate attempts to find safety when our inner

364 - From the Inside Out: Healing Your Relationship with Body, Intimacy, and Safety

Have you ever repeated a positive affirmation you were supposed to say, but realized deep down that your body didn't believe a single word of it? We tend to look at our

363 - Your mind isn't lying to you. It's just looking in the wrong place.

Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of Anxiety Is your mind a meaning-making machine that just won't stop spinning? When a wave of worry or dread hits, our minds immediate

362 - Freedom of Expression - Somatic Mindfulness Practice

This week's podcast episode was all about journaling, expression, and what happens in our bodies when we don't let things out. And right after recording it, I sat down

361 - Expression Is Medicine: What Journaling Does to Your Nervous System

When my husband and I were first married, I suffered from chronic migraines, back pain, and other physical symptoms. What I've come to understand since then is that my bo

360 - The Iceberg Within: Radical Self-Honesty and the Path Forward

We're back! After almost two months away - because life here has been a lot - I'm so glad to be back with a new episode, and as always, joined by my husband Rabbi Yonasan

359 - Coping Mechanisms: What they are, why you do them, and how to stop judging yourself for them

It's been a week. In this episode, my husband Rabbi Yonasan Reiser and I sit down to talk about something that's been very alive right now: coping mechanisms in a real

358 - Somatic mindfulness 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 gi

357 - You're not the first

356 - The joy gap

355 - When it's too much