The Jewish Divorce Project - Ep: 28: Divorce, Feelings, and One Big Sh*t Show

Probably our funniest and shittiest show yet! And when we say, “shitty” we mean in the way it feels to deal with our emotions sometimes. This week, Sheva and Noam are joined by a new friend, Rachel Kaplan- a Bay Area based psychotherapist with a private practice and really cool podcast. In this episode we discuss: The journey towards healing; What it’s like to adults to have feelings and move through them; The interplay between anger and shame; and the difference between feelings as farts and shits. We had to get a little childish for such a grown up topic as emotions : ) Stick around past the contact details at the end of the episode for a related Jewish lesson- we finally got it in!

You can always find Rachel at healingfeelingshitshow.com. And yourcorewound.com for a brief emotional assessment. 

How do you feel your emotions? Where do you usually carry them? What are you triggers? How do you process and move through your emotions in healthy ways?

 

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others." (Marianne Williamson)

 

A Prayer for the Gift of the Body

(The Bathroom Prayer)

Blessed are You, Adonai, Our Teacher, whose presence is felt throughout the cosmos, who formed human beings with wisdom and created within us many openings arteries, glands, and organs, marvelous in structure, intricate in design. Should but one of them fail to function by being blocked or opened, it would be impossible to survive and to serve You. Blessed are You, Adonai, who heals all flesh and acts wondrously.