The Goal Is Soul is a place to stop, catch your breath, and remember what really matters. I'm Dr. Benjy Epstein, a clinical psychologist in Jerusalem, and this is your guide to living with more courage, presence, and soul.
Each week we'll share two episodes, usually ten to fifteen minutes each. Soul Talk is a short teaching that begins with something familiar from psychology and opens into the older contemplative and spiritual traditions. Soul Practice is a guided mindfulness meditation built to move the teaching from your head into your body, and finally into your soul.
Anxiety. Burnout. Grief. Addiction. Loneliness. The feeling that you're never quite here.
Welcome all of yourself here. Beneath every role, you will always uncover what’s been there all along… the soul. Consider this your weekly reminder to be here now. Together.
New episodes every Saturday Night at 7 PM ET, to start your week with intention and soul.
Contact: Benjy@thegoalissoul.com
If you struggle with anxiety, this one's for you. A meditation for when the chest is tight and the mind won't stop running. We find an anchor, soften what's been bracing, and meet the fear the way we'd meet a scared child, with a hand on the heart and a few kind words.
"Safe and at home in this breath. Safe and at home in this moment. Safe and at home in this life."
Pair with this week's Soul Talk: Calming Your Anxious Mind (https://youtu.be/ckO0iCJDx5A).
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This week's soul is sponsored in memory of Gayle Myers Sock, Mazel bat Reuven, a true soul warrior, by the Sock family, and in memory of the victims of October 7th, with hope for the survivors.
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17 Oct 2026
Soul Talk: Calming Your Anxious Mind
If you struggle with anxiety, this one’s for you. Why panic feels so inescapable every single time, the second arrow we shoot into ourselves, and what Rebbe Nachman really meant about the narrow bridge.
“The main thing is to never make yourself afraid.”
Pair with this week’s Soul Practice: Befriending the Anxious Mind. (https://youtu.be/-nOVB2mF4gQ)
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This week's soul is sponsored in memory of Gayle Myers Sock, Mazel bat Reuven, a true soul warrior, by the Sock family, and in memory of the victims of October 7th, with hope for the survivors.
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10 Oct 2026
Soul Practice: A Meditation for the Laundry After the Ecstasy
In this episode: the crash that comes seventy-two hours after the peak, the Motzai Shabbos blues, and what happens when the afterglow becomes just "after." And why the Chassidic masters say God wanted a dwelling place down here, in the traffic and the dishes, and in Fugazi's waiting room.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
This week's Soul Practice brings it home. Come sit with me there.
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10 Oct 2026
Soul Talk: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
In this episode: the crash that comes seventy-two hours after the peak, the Motzai Shabbos blues, and what happens when the afterglow becomes just "after." And why the Chassidic masters say God wanted a dwelling place down here, in the traffic and the dishes, and in Fugazi's waiting room.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
Pair with this week's Soul Practice: https://youtu.be/PTJpKWfbQ2Y
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26 Sept 2026
Soul Practice: The Joy of Impermanence | A Sukkot Meditation
A meditation for Sukkot. Letting go of what isn't, and being with what is, fully.
"The joy is in the letting go itself."
Pair with this week's Soul Talk.
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26 Sept 2026
Soul Talk: The Joy of Impermanence
In this episode: can you lay terra firma over the fundamental groundlessness of being human? The sukkah, whose core feature is that it's impermanent. And Rav Kook on why the joy of Sukkot comes from exactly that.
With Pema Chödrön, Alan Watts, and Rav Kook.
"Each now is forever."
Pair with this week's Soul Practice.
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This week's soul is sponsored by soul brother Corey Fuchs.
Chag sameach. The Goal Is Soul.
14 Sept 2026
Soul Practice: Entering Yom Kippur: The Practice of Letting Go | A Guided Meditation
In this episode: a meditation on release. The story that keeps you in your smaller self. The craving. The busyness. The fear, the pride, the anger.
"Just as I am obligated to believe in God, I am obligated to believe in myself."
Closing on the ease of teshuvah — that it can happen b'rega echad, in one moment, right now.
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Gmar chasima tova. The Goal Is Soul.
14 Sept 2026
Soul Talk: Entering Yom Kippur
In this episode: why the holiest day of the Jewish calendar opens with a dry legal declaration instead of a prayer. What we're actually annulling. And what it means that the Master of the world has vows holding Him back too.
Teachings from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlita, the Baal HaTanya, and Rav Soloveitchik's Al HaTeshuvah.
"Kol Nidrei is the gate. And you don't worship the gate — you go into the inner temple."
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This week's Soul is sponsored by Full Court Press, in honor of its clients and employees as they celebrate 25 years of using strategic communications to drive social change, and in the merit of our brave soldiers of the IDF. Thank you brother bear.
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6 Sept 2026
Soul Practice: Begin Again
This week's practice is a meditation on beginning again.
What would it look like to bring this mindset to your day. To the people you love. To yourself.
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Brought to you by soul brother Brandon.
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6 Sept 2026
Soul Talk: Infinite Possibilities
In this episode: what happens when you bring beginner's mind to your actual life. To this moment. To the people closest to you. To yourself.
What it means to meet what you already know as though you're seeing it for the first time.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." (Shunryu Suzuki)
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30 Aug 2026
Soul Practice: I have arrived. I am home. Mantra meditation
This week we sit with a mantra.
I have arrived. I am home.
Shivti b'veis Adonai kol yemei chayai.
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30 Aug 2026
Soul Talk: Finding Refuge
We are all seeking refuge. Most of what we run to holds for a while and then gives out. The phone, the drink, the busyness. True refuge is the place that holds every time you come to it.
Arei miklat tihyena lachem — "they shall be cities of refuge for you." (Bamidbar 35:11)
"Be a refuge unto yourself."
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23 Aug 2026
Soul Practice: Nowhere Else to Be
A ten-minute sit on presence.
Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now.
A guided practice for coming back, returning to the breath, to the body, to what's actually here. Whatever the heart brings is welcome.
Sit upright, eyes gently closed, and join me.
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23 Aug 2026
Soul Talk: Be Here Now
Everything you're looking for is already here. And now.
In this episode: what happens when the striving stops. The difference between becoming and being. Where the sacred actually lives, and why it's closer than you think.
Soul Practice this week is a ten minute sit on presence.
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17 Aug 2026
Soul Practice: A Meditation on Entering the Sacred Pause
"Do you take regular visits to yourself?"
— Rumi
Ten minutes to pause and return to center. Follow along as I guide you through stopping, taking a breath, observing what's here, and proceeding back into your day with a little more space than you had before.
If you're driving or walking, keep your eyes open and stay safe. Just listen along.
Paired with Soul Talk: The Sacred Pause.
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17 Aug 2026
Soul Talk: The Sacred Pause
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
— Ferris Bueller
This week we're going to talk about finding the space in between the chaos. Where it comes from, why it's gotten so hard for us, and how to actually find it in the middle of a Tuesday.
"Peace isn't the absence of chaos. It's the space you find within it."
Our tradition has been building this in for thousands of years. Long before anyone called it wellness.
Paired with Soul Practice: A Meditation on Entering the Sacred Pause.
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9 Aug 2026
Soul Practice: A Guided Meditation for Coming Home to Your SELF
A 15-minute guided meditation for burnout, overwhelm, and the exhaustion of being everything to everyone. This is the practice that pairs with this week's Soul Talk, You Are Not a Role, You Are a Soul.
Fifteen minutes to put down what you've been holding. We settle, we notice the roles you came in wearing, and we let them rest for a little while. What's left when they're quiet is the thing we're actually after.
There's no need to sit a certain way or know anything about meditation. A chair is fine. So is your bed.
Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.
Somewhere you can close your eyes, please. Not the car.
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9 Aug 2026
Soul Talk: You Are Not a Role, You Are a Soul (Episode 2)
Ask someone who they are and they'll tell you what they do.
In this episode of The Goal Is Soul, we look at the roles we carry and at what's underneath them. You get handed a role early. Then you choose a few more. Somewhere along the way the role stops being something you do and becomes who you think you are. That's when it gets heavy, because a role has to be held up, and you're the one holding it. IFS calls what's underneath Self. Ram Dass called it soul. Chassidus calls it the chelek Elokah mima'al, a chip off the divine block. Every tradition names it differently and says the same thing: it was never assigned to you, so it can't be taken away. It's the one in you that watches the roles come and go and stays steady through all of it.
Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.
This week's Soul Practice brings it from the head to the heart. Come sit with me there.
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26 Jul 2026
Welcome to The Goal is Soul™️
It has to start someplace and it has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?
In this first episode of The Goal Is Soul, we discuss why this show exists, who it's for, and what you'll get every week.
In creating this show, I made what I needed. Most of us are moving so fast that the day is over before we've arrived in it, carrying things we never put down. The Goal is Soul is a weekly place to stop. Every week there will be two episodes. Soul Talk is a short teaching that starts with something familiar from psychology and opens into the older contemplative and spiritual traditions. Soul Practice is a guided meditation that takes the teaching out of your head and puts it in your body, and finally into your soul. Fifteen to Twenty minutes each. That's it. And aren’t you worth that?
Every week is a return to our essential nature. Soul.
The episode concludes with our first practice together.
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