S3E4: Devorah Brous - From Burnout to Regeneration
We’re all faced with pressures to over-extend ourselves. Whether it’s career, family commitments or too much screen time, there are no shortage of ways that we can burn ourselves out. But how do we restore and regenerate? My guest today is Devorah Brous, she is an Urban Homesteader & Herbalist and Executive Director of Temple Emanu El in Burbank, CA. In our conversation, Dev shares her Nature-based model of the regenerative change cycle and how we can apply it to restoring and sustaining balance in our lives.
Devorah Brous
Urban Homesteader & Herbalist | Green Educator | Consultant | Executive Director
Executive Director of BTEE, a thriving With a 75-year history, BTEE is a progressive Conservative synagogue located in Burbank. We are a welcoming and participatory Jewish community that honors traditions, celebrates diversity, and practices an authentic and dynamic Judaism. We are a center for Jewish life in Burbank, offering a full range of programs—from our award-winning preschool and Hebrew School programing to lifelong learning opportunities.
Urban Homesteader & Herbalist | Green Educator | Consultant
With a focus on ancient and emergent practices for soul-care, earth-care, and community-care, Dev guides clients to regenerate.
@Dev.Brous is a dynamic and innovative consultant with a focus on regeneration for groups and individuals. As a plant wisdom practitioner, her practice, FromSoil2Soul, is dedicated to tending people at the nexus of burnout and renewal. Dev’s intersectional approach is based in time-tested earth-based traditions as well as emergent wellness exercises that are applied to address today’s life/work/systemic challenges. Further, Dev's been a community organizer with systems-impacted and underinvested communities for 25 years (indigenous, houseless, and formerly incarcerated people).
Dev was the former founding Executive Director of two mission-driven environmental nonprofits, BUSTAN, and Netiya. Follow @dev.brous, and check out her column, A Jewitch Herbal.
Dev’s practice is firmly grounded in earth-based Torah; illuminated by the wise-woman tradition of folk herbalism; and mindfully woven together with p… Read More
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