Therapist Runs Global Love Clinic on Yoga, Walks, and Grapefruit Rituals
KEY POINTS
- •Esther Perel evolved from solo therapy sessions to global couples podcast events to increase accessibility during and after the pandemic.
- •She practices yoga four times weekly with a pandemic-started group, incorporates physical walks into therapy, and balances work across therapy, podcasting, and meetings.
- •Perel blends her personal life and work by traveling internationally with friends or family, emphasizing continual therapy practice despite her expanding public role.
Esther Perel, the New York-based couples whisperer and bestselling author of 'Mating in Captivity' (2006) and 'The State of Affairs' (2017), spends her days juggling yoga sessions, Zoom friendships immortalized in six years of pandemic classes, and therapy walks by rivers where she explores humanity’s messy universes side-by-side—not face-to-face. She refuses to keep 'therapy democratic' behind office doors, so she turned her couple’s sagas into global podcast live events, working with Magnificent Noise studios and sipping homemade grapefruit coffee while deciphering frantic international texts. Also, she somehow makes bread-and-cheese count as a balanced lunch in preference to actual lunch breaks, thereby reminding us all that therapeutic enlightenment can come with weird, high-carb existential fuel.
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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/14/2026 | Author: Julia Pugachevsky