This episode was recorded just before Yom Kippur. It is about Teshuvah, but not in the way I once understood it. Like much of my life, its meaning keeps evolving. I reflect on how the language of repentance has often felt like a weapon, and how I am learning to reclaim it as something tender and true.

Like many of my offerings, this one is unpolished and raw. It is a voice memo of the soul, shared from the middle of the process. I speak about what Yom Kippur means to me this year, the questions I am still holding, and the version of G-d I am finally beginning to feel at home with.

If you have ever felt like you could not show up to Yom Kippur because of where you are or what you carry, this episode is for you.

Thank you for listening,

Lea

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In this Q&A, I speak from the place I’m still in, where clarity and doubt live together. I talk about nearly walking away from my marriage and what helped me stay. I share what it means to carry something too heavy alone and what becomes possible when both people keep showing up.

We talk about the power of the 12-step world and the places it cannot reach. I speak about the depth of plant medicine and the quiet strength of women I’ve met along the way. I share what it means to let go of self-contempt and begin to reclaim the parts of me that once had to disappear.

This is not about having answers. It is about staying open when the dark feels louder than the light.

If you’ve ever wondered if healing is still possible, I hope this conversation meets you gently and reminds you that you are not alone.

Thank you for listening,
Lea

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In this first episode of More to the Story, I return to where it all began. Not just the beginning of healing, but the beginning of me. I talk about growing up in Crown Heights in a large Chabad family, shaped by strong voices and quiet expectations, and the inner world I carried through it all.

I share what it was like to fall in love, become a mother, and then watch the life I had built start to crack open. I speak about discovering my husband’s addiction, how it stirred memories I had buried, and how I began reclaiming the right to tell my own story.

This episode is not about having answers. It is about being real. About learning how to hold pain and love at the same time. About what happens when silence starts to lift and shame no longer gets the last word.

I speak about therapy, body-based healing, plant medicine, and learning to see Chassidic and Kabbalistic texts not just as ideas, but as sources of personal healing.

If you have ever carried shame or silence, if you’ve questioned whether healing is possible, I hope this episode reminds you that you were never alone.

Thank you for listening,
Lea