Your breath isn’t just a tool for calming down, It’s a language your body uses to tell the truth… even when you’re not ready to speak it. 1. Ever notice how your breath gets shallow when you're near someone who drains you? 2. How it holds completely when you're about to say something vulnerable? 1. How it softens when you're finally safe? Your breath is honest. It doesn’t perform. It doesn’t pretend. It doesn’t ask for permission. Sometimes, the most healing thing you can do isn’t to change your breath…But to listen to it. Let's make a conscious effort to listen to it, it has surprised me when I gave it time to hear what it had to say and what it needed. Remember the breath travels through your entire body!

Yesterday was my first breathwork experience. I did not have any expectations, I just wanted to have the experience and see what came of it. Afterwards, I felt emotionally spent and pretty down/sad. I certainly did not have any expectation of "rainbows and unicorns" or anything afterwards, but I'm surprised to find that today I'm significantly more sad, too and it doesn't seem to be shaking. I suppose it stands to reason if you shove a stick in a swamp and start stirring, things will get kinda gross for a while but I was just curious if anyone else had this experience as well or if that's just kind of part of it?