You’re going to want to read this whole post, because there’s a lot inside. A new episode release, the upcoming Vessel schedule, a free coffee date invite, and a coupon code all waiting below.

Because apparently Yom Tov wasn’t busy enough, I had this insane feeling that I needed to put out one last episode for our Vessel mini-series.

Until now, each episode mirrored the theme of one of the course modules.
But Meira’s episode is different.
It’s about Vessel as a whole.
About what it meant for someone like her to come home to herself in the six years she’s been showing up.

Meira has been with Vessel since its inception, seven cohorts ago. Her process took years.
Painstakingly showing up.
A little at a time.
Some years more, some less.
And it changed her.

Some of you already know my theory about the five life forces we engage with.
Food/sustenance.
Money.
Sexuality.
Breath.
G-d.

Everything I teach rests on this idea. Because how you do anything is how you do everything. Every relationship, every choice, every pattern, comes down to how these five forces are expressed or distorted.

Food is how we nourish or numb.
Sexuality is how we open or withhold.
Money is how we receive and take up space.
Breath is how we expand or contract.
G-d is how we remember we are connected to something bigger.

But over chag, flipping through some of the publications that find their way into most Jewish homes, I started to wonder if maybe I was wrong about the five life forces.

Because based on the ninety-seven pages of advertising you have to scroll through before you even get to the letters to the editor, it seems there are five others:
Designer clothing.
Real estate.
Mental health trends.
Food/fress (not the nourishing kind).
And weight loss.

It’s not subtle.

When ninety-seven pages of advertising precede the content you paid for, you know exactly who the publication serves. People invested in physicality to the point of exhaustion. People trying to buy their way into a promise of peace.

You may have even seen the little piece mocking breathwork and hypnotherapy. It was written like a comedy sketch: a tired mother, addicted to nightly ice cream, dragged by her sister to some new-age “breathwork lady.” A few whispered affirmations later, she comes home, demolishes another pint, and declares it “not for her.”

It’s meant to be funny. Relatable. Harmless.
Except it isn’t.

It’s the kind of thing that does everyone a disservice because it reinforces the idea that transformation is a joke, that therapy is indulgent, and that our attempts to heal are silly distractions between carpools.

The irony is that the same readers laughing at “Susan the breathwork therapist” are the ones swallowing opioids when they really need antibiotics.

We don’t need more coping mechanisms.
We need more integrity, especially when it comes to this work.

Stopping the pain isn’t the same as treating the cause.
And that’s exactly what Vessel was born from — the work beneath the work.

Meira’s voice was the perfect one for this episode because her story is what happens when you stop outsourcing your sanity to sugar or distraction and start listening to your own inner compass.

Her story isn’t shiny. It’s not fast. It’s not something you can package between ads for real estate, dresses, and diets. But if you listen, you’ll notice we started the episode in the middle of our conversation.

Because if you only have three minutes to listen, those first three minutes are what I want you to hear.

When I met Meira, she was in survival mode. She had been to every workshop, read every book, prayed every prayer. And yet nothing landed.

What she found in Vessel wasn’t instant relief. It was something quieter, steadier. A way to build capacity for truth.

She began to see that healing isn’t about fixing anything. It’s about letting what’s real have space to breathe.
And that takes time.

It’s not about breathwork as a technique. It’s about breath as a language.
A way the body prays.
A way the soul returns to Hashem (and life itself!) through presence.

That’s not something you can mock if you’ve ever truly needed it.

Vessel isn’t about escaping your life. It’s about inhabiting it.

So no, I’m not going to write a letter to the editor.
Because their readership isn’t who I care about.

I’m not interested in convincing people who think "healing" is a trend.
I’m speaking to the ones who already know that the real work is cellular and spiritual, not cerebral.

And if that’s you, you’ll feel it too.

Listen to Episode 9, there’s a special coupon code tucked inside, just enough to sponsor a real conversation where ideas move between people — not where content is buried under ninety-seven pages of commercials.

Because what we need isn’t more noise.
It’s nourishment.

Registration for our 7th cohort is open now. We begin Thursday. 

We have a seat saved for you!

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A special shoutout and thank you to Ahron Wohlgelernter, who believed in this mini-series and edited these episodes so beautifully and so fast. If you ever need work like this done, he’s absolutely the person I’d recommend. I can’t wait to collaborate on more projects together.

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In case you missed it — we’re having a free Vessel Coffee Date this Wednesday. It’s a clarity call where you can bring your questions about Vessel and hear from alumni and new members alike.

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Want the Vessel details?

The week ahead:
Wednesday — free coffee date
Thursday — Vessel welcome call for participants
Motzei Shabbos — Module 1 opens and cohort 7 begins!

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Vessel Workbooks are being sent out all week. They're stunning and I cannot wait to dive in with our new cohort!

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And as a reminder in case you don't know or forgot - once you're in, you're in free of charge every year. You're automatically registered; there's nothing you need to do other than show up!

And spouses join free. When you register, your spouse can join the course at no charge. For the first time, we’ve opened a men’s WhatsApp group so that couples can do this work together. Because this is what community looks like, the courage to come home, together