Take responsibility for your life and your feelings, and pay attention to the story you keep telling yourself. What is that story? Question it. Change the story, and use more positive language when you talk to yourself. Read the full guide to being happy We each write the script of our own lives. Picture a …
Read the episode notes: How to Be Happy | The Truth Hurts, Episode 60
What does it mean to find your calling? It’s a question everyone asks, and the answer may be simpler than we make it. Gili suggests beginning with the people around you. Who needs your help? Help them. When someone needs you, you’ll know exactly what to do. Gili and Tal explore why it matters to …
Read the episode notes: Finding Your Calling | The Truth Hurts, Episode 59
Marking Inflammatory Bowel Disease Awareness Month, Gili and Tal explore the connection between a healthy soul and a healthy body. The episode starts from the premise that every illness has its roots in the soul. Rabbi Yuval Asherov defines illness as the body’s correct response to an incorrect stimulus. In this view, illness ultimately comes …
Read the episode notes: Healthy Soul, Healthy Body | The Truth Hurts, Episode 58
The week began in deep sadness under the shadow of Israel’s Memorial Day ( Yom HaZikaron ). As Memorial Day ended, Independence Day ( Yom HaAtzmaut ) began, and by week’s end, the sadness was beginning to lift a little. The shift from mourning to celebration captures something fundamental about life: it is full of …
What if the answers to life’s biggest questions can be found within our own consciousness? In this episode, Gili and Tal explore what happens within us as we search for life’s secrets. They connect the Hebrew word sod , meaning “secret,” with seder ve-da’at , or “order and knowledge.” Seen this way, even our biggest …
Read the episode notes: Secrets: Order and Knowledge | The Truth Hurts, Episode 56
Episode 55 opens with the pain and sadness all around us, and with what Gili and Tal call the “Broken Hearts Club.” The conversation turns on a striking paradox: nothing is more whole than a broken heart. A heart that breaks can also mark the beginning of renewal and personal growth. Then they turn to …
Read the episode notes: Create Your Reality | The Truth Hurts, Episode 55
The course begins April 29, just after Passover. Learn more (in Hebrew): https://gili-jewishmotivation.co.il/bioutopia-course/ This holiday episode has a surprise in store: Gili and Tal are joined by special guest Amihai Beer for an intimate conversation and a numerology reading. Amihai’s Instagram feed, @amihai_beer, brings together beauty and good taste. He shares insights from the subjects …
Read the episode notes: Creativity, Authenticity, and Human Connection with Amihai Beer | Episode 54
A special Passover episode about renewal, freedom, and the habits that can enslave us. Nisan brings nature back to life. The human soul has its own moments of renewal, like a bud waiting to bloom. Gili and Tal then turn to another kind of slavery: the kind we create for ourselves through habits, cravings, and …
Read the episode notes: We Were Slaves. Is It Time to Break Free? | The Truth Hurts, Episode 53
What would it take to move beyond arguing over who’s right and what we believe we deserve? In this episode, Gili and Tal explore unity, love, and forgiveness. They call for an end to what they describe as the ongoing civil war among us. They ask us to move beyond arguing over who’s right and …
Read the episode notes: Unity Through Forgiveness | The Truth Hurts, Episode 52
How do we cope when reality feels too complex for reason alone? In this episode of The Truth Hurts , Gili and Tal explore the strength of faith ( emunah ) in times of crisis, as Israel and Israeli society face struggles and conflicts. They ask how each of us can cope with a complex …
Read the episode notes: Faith Beyond Reason: An Exercise in Awakening | The Truth Hurts, Episode 51