46 | Adi Cohen | Between Ruin and Renewal: Walking the Path of Love, Peace, and Resistance



There’s nothing to fight for but Love, as the essence of who we are.
— Adi Cohen

Here is an audio version.

A video version can be found below.


In this tender and unflinching conversation, Adi shares from the deep well of her lived experience as a woman of Syrian, Iranian, Iraqi, and Israeli descent—lineages shaped by exile, migration, and the generational longing for safety. Speaking from within woven landscapes of both inner and outer war, Adi invites us into an exploration of what it means to live in the mystery, to surrender to the unknown, and to return to love as the essence of true power.

We trace the arc of her journey through dissonance, doubt, and division. Growing up in Israel amid the backdrop of conflict, Adi reflects on the rupture between her ancestral roots and the land she was born into. What emerges is not a story of blame or sides, but a clarion call to dissolve separation, to meet chaos with presence, and to walk the dark Feminine path of trust, tenderness, and embodied prayer.

This episode is an invitation to soften, to listen, and to lean into the deeper current beneath division—the unspoken yearning of all people to live freely, in peace, and in love.



Find Thematic Show Notes Below




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Thematic Show Notes

Roots, War and the Complexity of Belonging:

  • Growing up with a sense of disconnection from the land

  • Living with inherited trauma and the unspoken sense of danger

  • Questioning the cycles of war and territoriality

  • Naming the deeper shared prayer: to live freely, without domination


Inner Inquiry and the Navigation of Conflict:

  • Turning from blame to inward investigation

  • Asking: What is my path? What is my prayer?

  • Creating from love rather than reacting from fear

  • Recognizing how inner war mirrors collective war


Dark Wisdom and the Feminine Way:

  • Meeting pain and devastation with presence and trust

  • Leaning back into the mystery as an act of power

  • Embracing the unknown as the womb of life

  • Returning to felt experience over mental control


Forgiveness, Peace and Power:

  • Reimagining power as rooted in openness and reciprocity

  • The humility of choosing peace over being right

  • Understanding the systems that benefit from our division

  • Creating new stories and structures through forgiveness


Living Close to Death, Living More Fully:

  • Death as a teacher and companion

  • The daily invitation to die to the false and awaken to the real

  • Allowing endings to open the way for true beginnings

  • “There is nothing to fight for but love, as the essence of who we are.”


A Call to Remember:

  • We do not need more trauma to awaken

  • Building from heart-wisdom and embodied knowing

  • Living as bridges between separation and wholeness

  • Rooting into love as the structure for what comes next


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