I had already been using the breath as a tool for releasing what no longer served me and regulating my nervous system for around two years when something completely unexpected flipped our world upside down.

Our family experienced one of those events in life that completely changes its trajectory.

I was having panic attacks on the bathroom floor. Thoughts that wouldn’t stop. Sleepless nights. Emotions that completely took over my entire body.

I was going down.

I felt like I was treading water with weights tied around my ankles.

I knew I needed to get myself to a breathwork session, so that’s exactly what I did.

I drove over an hour to a trusted facilitator for a group session and I let it all come up and out.

I breathed.

I cried.

I wailed.

I sobbed.

I’m pretty sure I even howled. 😂

And afterwards, I slipped into a complete state of calm and peace — one that, at the time, I thought might be impossible to ever feel again.

Something shifted that day.

I no longer felt consumed by the emotional charge connected to what had happened. The overwhelming thoughts and feelings loosened their grip, and I was able to think and talk about the painful experience without the emotions completely taking over.

I felt like I was back in the driver’s seat again.

That experience added fuel to my fire, deepening my desire to share the power of the breath.

Sometimes we can understand something logically for years and yet still feel like we’re carrying it within us — the anger, the sadness, the guilt, the hurt, the shame, the grief… the tension or heaviness connected to a memory or past experience.

For me, breathwork creates a space where I can finally meet some of that without needing to find all the words, let it go and return to myself — calmer, clearer and more regulated.

And that is why I chose to become a 9D Breathwork Facilitator and how 'The Breath Journey' was born.