Dear reader,
You did not arrive here by accident. Most of the women I work with have read the books, taken the courses, kept the journals. They have tried what is on offer. What they are looking for now is something older than that, and harder to name.
I do not have a formula. I have a way of listening. We meet on video for an hour at a time. You bring what is on your mind — the question you have been turning over for months, the corner of your life that refuses to settle, the prayer you are not sure how to pray. I ask, you answer, we sit with what surfaces. Sometimes a minute passes without a word. Sometimes the answer arrives in the first ten.
My training is in psychology. My grounding is in Torah. Both teach me the same thing in different languages: that the mind protects what the soul is trying to reach, and the work is to learn the difference between the two voices. I do not do this in a clinical way. I do it in the way of a long conversation, the kind that used to happen on porches.
I take on a small number of women at a time, and I ask for a minimum of four sessions because the first one is for meeting each other, the second is usually when the real question shows itself, and the third and fourth are where the work actually begins. Beyond the four, some women come for a season. Some stay for a year.
If you have read this far, you probably already know whether the timing is right. Trust that.
— Sarah Leah