RAW

Anouk Lorie
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'Raw' is a podcast that confronts the complexities of war from the inside out. Hosted by Anouk Lorie—journalist, author, and yoga and meditation teacher—'Raw' embodies the collective sense of exposure and vulnerability many of us feel in the wake of Israel's conflicts. This show goes beyond discussing external events, diving deep into our inner battles and how these moments of violence shake our very core. Join Anouk in intimate conversations with leading philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, and trauma experts. Together, they explore how we can navigate these painful times with wisdom and resilience, offering guidance for our paths in an unfiltered, raw world. Whether you seek deeper understanding, tools for emotional resilience, or are seeking comfort and solidarity, 'Raw' invites you to listen, learn, and heal. Follow and subscribe on your preferred podcasting platform: • Spotify • Apple Podcasts • YouTube Don't miss an episode—tune in and be part of the conversation that matters. For more updates on episodes, tools for resilience and wellbeing, and inspiration, subscribe to our newsletter at withanouk.com.

  1. Trust More Scarce Than Water — Environmental Diplomacy with Tareq Abu-Hamed

    JAN 8

    Trust More Scarce Than Water — Environmental Diplomacy with Tareq Abu-Hamed

    What happens to dialogue under trauma? Can cooperation survive when trust has collapsed? And what does climate change reveal about our shared fate in a region defined by borders and conflict?  In this episode of RAW, I speak with Tareq Abu-Hamed, an environmental scientist and Executive Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies — a joint Israeli-Palestinian institute working at the intersection of climate change, conflict, and dialogue in the Middle East. Tareq grew up in East Jerusalem and came of age during the first Intifada. An early encounter with Jewish neighbors in a nearby kibbutz shaped his life and his path. His academic journey took him through Turkey, the Weizmann Institute, and the United States, before returning to the region to help build one of the most unusual institutions here: a place where Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, and international students live and study together while confronting shared environmental challenges. In our conversation, we speak about climate change as a security issue, the reality of shared aquifers, Gaza’s environmental devastation, and why ecology does not stop at borders. We talk honestly about October 7th, trauma, dehumanization, and what it takes to keep dialogue alive when fear and grief make it harder to see the human on the other side. This is not a conversation about easy answers. It’s about trust being more scarce than water in a region where nothing is separate — and where refusing cooperation comes at a real human cost.   You can find more episodes of RAW, along with my writing, guided meditations, and newsletter, at WithAnouk.com. If this conversation resonated, you’re welcome to subscribe, share it with someone who might listen with care, or simply stay in touch there. Thank you for listening.

    43 min
  2. 2026 What We Carry Forward

    12/31/2025

    2026 What We Carry Forward

    2026 Guided Meditation: What We Carry Forward (And What We Don’t) This guided meditation is an invitation to pause at the threshold between years, and to acknowledge the weight many of us have been holding. After a year marked by war, ceasefires, political division, and ongoing global violence, this practice offers space for discernment rather than resolution. It’s not about letting go of the past, but about sensing what still belongs with us — and what quietly exhausts our capacity to care. We explore: • how to set down burdens that were never ours to carry alone • what remains alive in us despite everything • how to step forward with clarity, tenderness, and integrity You can listen on December 31 or January 1 — or whenever you find yourself at a threshold. For more episodes, reflections, and to sign up for the RAW newsletter, visit withanouk.com. If this meditation resonated, consider sharing it with someone who might need it — and subscribing to RAW for future episodes.

    11 min
  3. Staying Human: Dr. Stephen Fulder on Meditation, Fear, and the Stories We Live By

    12/14/2025

    Staying Human: Dr. Stephen Fulder on Meditation, Fear, and the Stories We Live By

    Dr. Stephen Fulder—founder of Tovana, longtime Buddhist teacher, author of What’s Beyond Mindfulness and The Five Powers, and co-founder of the ecological spiritual community Clil—returns to RAW two years after becoming the show’s very first guest. Together we explore the emotional and spiritual landscape of Israel since October 7th: the rise of fear and tribalism, the exhaustion many of us carry, and the human tendency to collapse into constricted narratives when we feel threatened. Stephen offers a grounded, compassionate invitation to widen the space inside us, meet fear without letting it become a worldview, and reconnect with the deeper sources of clarity, resilience and humanity that live within us. We talk about: •⁠ ⁠How fear shapes our identity and our politics •⁠ ⁠Why societies contract into “us vs. them” •⁠ ⁠Meditation as a practical way to create inner spaciousness •⁠ ⁠Compassion for Israelis, Palestinians, and ourselves •⁠ ⁠The role of spiritual activism today •⁠ ⁠How ecological, grounded living supports psychological resilience This is a conversation about staying human—tender, courageous, and open—in a moment when the world pushes us toward contraction. If this episode resonates, please follow RAW, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need a breath of clarity today. *More about Stephen: * Dr. Stephen Fulder is one of the pioneers of Buddhist practice in Israel. Born in London in 1946, he studied at Oxford, completed his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, and went on to write fourteen books while spending nearly five decades exploring alternative medicine and spiritual life. Since 1976, he has been a devoted practitioner of Theravada Buddhism, enriched by Dzogchen and Advaita teachings. He is the founder and senior teacher of Tovana, the Israel Insight Meditation Society—now the country’s largest Buddhist practice organization, offering more than 45 retreats a year. He also helped establish Mashiv Nefesh, and the ecological spiritual community of Clil, where he lives, grows his own food and medicines, teaches, and continues his long-standing commitment to peace work between Israelis and Palestinians. His books include the bestseller What’s Beyond Mindfulness and The Five Powers.

    56 min
  4. The Healing Space - How Dr. Lia Naor Moved Mountains to Care for Thousands After October 7

    11/10/2025

    The Healing Space - How Dr. Lia Naor Moved Mountains to Care for Thousands After October 7

    In the aftermath of October 7, when so much was shattered, Dr. Lia Naor helped build something extraordinary. Within days, she and a small group of colleagues created what became known as the Healing Space in Rishpon, a volunteer-run trauma center that has since cared for more than 20,000 people, offering over 60,000 hours of therapy in dozens of healing modalities. It became a living sanctuary for survivors, evacuees, and therapists — a place where people could gather, breathe, and slowly return to themselves. Lia Naor is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and national representative of the International Ecopsychology Society. Her work stands at the intersection of psychology, nature, ritual, and community, exploring how the land itself can become a partner in recovery and how belonging and connection to place can help restore what trauma has torn apart. This conversation is about the deep ecology of healing: how we root ourselves again in life after devastation, how beauty and grief can coexist, and how acts of care, both human and ecological, become quiet forms of resistance. ✨ Subscribe to RAW wherever you listen to podcasts, and join the mailing list at WithAnouk.com for new episodes, reflections, and meditations.

    46 min
  5. After the Hostages Return - Iris Gavrieli Rahabi on the Long Road to Healing

    10/31/2025

    After the Hostages Return - Iris Gavrieli Rahabi on the Long Road to Healing

    When the hostages came home, Israel exhaled - but only for a moment. Because what comes after survival is its own kind of reckoning. In this conversation, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Iris Gavrieli Rahabi reflects on the unseen work of healing after collective trauma. A member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and longtime teacher in Human Spirit — a psychoanalytic–Buddhist training program that bridges Western depth psychology and Eastern contemplative practice — Iris has dedicated her career to understanding the meeting point between psyche, suffering, and compassion. She is also the co-founder of First Line Med, a volunteer network that has provided long-term, free therapy to survivors of the October 7 attacks, to bereaved families, and to those who returned from captivity. We talk about what it means to accompany others through devastation - when the cameras are gone and the quiet grief begins. How psychoanalysis and Buddhism meet in tenderness and truth-telling. And how healing, both individual and collective, asks us to stay present to the unbearable - without turning away. ✨ Subscribe to RAW wherever you listen to podcasts — and join the mailing list at WithAnouk.com for new episodes, reflections, and meditations.

    49 min
  6. Resting in Uncertainty, Opening to Hope — Guided Meditation

    10/06/2025

    Resting in Uncertainty, Opening to Hope — Guided Meditation

    Nearly two years since October 7, 2023, we are still learning to live with uncertainty — the shock, fear, and endurance that have shaped these years. In this gentle, grounding meditation, Anouk invites you to pause: to breathe with what is unresolved, to soften around what hurts, and to open — carefully — to the quiet possibility of hope. This isn’t about forced optimism, but about resting in truth and finding steadiness within it. If this practice resonates, subscribe to RAW with Anouk on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube — and share it with someone who might need a moment of calm today.🕊️

    12 min
  7. Simple Tools to Calm the Nervous System — with Gina Ross

    09/17/2025

    Simple Tools to Calm the Nervous System — with Gina Ross

    Gina Ross is a psychotherapist and founder of the International Trauma-Healing Institute. In this episode, she shares simple, practical tools anyone can use to calm the nervous system and release trauma energy in daily life — alongside insights from her decades of work in conflict zones and communities worldwide. Gina has trained thousands of professionals and community leaders in trauma-healing methods that bridge psychotherapy, neuroscience, and cross-cultural awareness. Her mission: to stop cycles of trauma before they spiral into cycles of violence. In this episode we explore: Simple, on-the-go tools to regulate the nervous system How trauma energy gets stuck in the body — and how to safely release it Ways to use these techniques in moments of overwhelm, reactivity, or stress The wider picture of collective trauma in Israel, Palestine, and beyond How trauma is transmitted across generations — and how healing can interrupt that cycle This conversation is both practical and profound: a chance to learn tools you can use right now, and an invitation to see trauma not only as a wound, but as a pathway toward resilience and repair. Subscribe to RAW on any podcast app.

    49 min
  8. When to Rise, When to Rest

    08/26/2025

    When to Rise, When to Rest

    In this special 10-minute guided meditation from Raw, we pause amid war, heat, and division to honor both the call to act and the need to rest. Through the rhythm of breath, we explore resilience—the balance between rising with strength and softening into renewal. The meditation closes with a Hebrew blessing, offered as both prayer and poetry, for strength and peace. Raw is a podcast of unguarded conversations and practices about resilience, morality, and healing in the shadow of war. Subscribe on all podcast apps or join the newsletter at WithAnouk.com

    14 min
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'Raw' is a podcast that confronts the complexities of war from the inside out. Hosted by Anouk Lorie—journalist, author, and yoga and meditation teacher—'Raw' embodies the collective sense of exposure and vulnerability many of us feel in the wake of Israel's conflicts. This show goes beyond discussing external events, diving deep into our inner battles and how these moments of violence shake our very core. Join Anouk in intimate conversations with leading philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, and trauma experts. Together, they explore how we can navigate these painful times with wisdom and resilience, offering guidance for our paths in an unfiltered, raw world. Whether you seek deeper understanding, tools for emotional resilience, or are seeking comfort and solidarity, 'Raw' invites you to listen, learn, and heal. Follow and subscribe on your preferred podcasting platform: • Spotify • Apple Podcasts • YouTube Don't miss an episode—tune in and be part of the conversation that matters. For more updates on episodes, tools for resilience and wellbeing, and inspiration, subscribe to our newsletter at withanouk.com.

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  • Creator
    Anouk Lorie
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Anouk Lorie
  • Show Website
    RAW

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