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How to Create Recovery Periods For Your Brain

May 30, 2026 | Renée Fishman

Your brain doesn’t have an off switch, but that doesn’t mean it should be working all the time. Here are some strategies to rest your brain without meditation.

Filed Under: Health, Productivity Tagged With: brain health, health, nervous system health, noise, processing, productivity, silence, strategies, wellness

What You Can Hear in the Silence

December 25, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Our culture has habituated us to live in constant noise. When we break the habit of noise and learn to get comfortable in the silence, a whole new world opens up.

Filed Under: Habits, Life Tagged With: habits, hearing, listening, mindfulness, noise, silence

What Keeps You Busy?

December 23, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Even as nature and the season tells us to slow down, it’s easy to remain busy. Understanding why we resist rest is the first step to taking back what is sacred in life.

Filed Under: Coaching, Practice, Productivity, Spirituality Tagged With: busy, emptiness, fear, listening, productivity, resistance, rest, silence

All Growth Starts From the Same Place. It’s Not What You Think

September 21, 2023 | Renée Fishman

The Jewish New Year and nature provide us with a well-tested guide to how to grow something sustainable. The process is the opposite of what you’ve been trained to believe.

Filed Under: Holidays, Practice, Productivity Tagged With: action, alignment, doing nothing, dormancy, foundation, growth, life meaning, productivity, purpose, rest, roots, silence, stillness, values

When Silence is the Sound

September 16, 2023 | Renée Fishman

The defining feature of Rosh Hashana services is the sounding of the shofar. When the holiday falls on Saturday, we don’t sound it. Here’s why the silence speaks more loudly.

Filed Under: Holidays, Spirituality Tagged With: inner voice, Rosh Hashana, shofar, silence

Silence is Complicity

January 16, 2023 | Renée Fishman

When it comes to verbal and emotional abuse, especially within a family unit, there are no innocent bystanders. Silence is complicity.

Filed Under: Coaching, Life Tagged With: actions, bullying, childhood trauma, courage, emotional abuse, family, silence, trauma, values, verbal abuse

The Holiness in the Silent Night

December 24, 2022 | Renée Fishman

What makes the silent night holy? It’s not what happens there, but what emerges from it — if we allow it.

Filed Under: Life, Spirituality Tagged With: deep listening, inner voice, mindfulness, poems, poetry, presence, rituals, silence, soul work, stillness

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