My personal journey into breathwork and cold water immersion started back in 2008 and it’s been transformational for me personally. It’s supported me though my journey back to health from mental illness and later through anxiety, grief and loss. It is a constant reminder of what I’m capable of and finding joy and even relaxation in the darkest of times.

I’ve trained in various breathwork techniques because I believe there is no one size fits all. I’ve used deep healing and joyful modalities of breathwork. These have helped my connect back to myself and made me feel safe in my body again, it’s honestly been like coming home. I’ve also used functional breathing techniques to eradicate the underlying issues I’d developed whilst living with chronic stress like breath holding, disturbed sleep and living in highly activated flight or fight state.

I want you to fall in love with your breath and your body and be in awe of what it can do. Our fast pace modern world leaves us disconnected from ourselves and our true nature, it leaves our nervous systems in a constant state of activation and as a result we often find ourselves living in a constant state of stress.

It’s not about totally overhauling your life, although that can be incredible too. Just connecting to yourself and others with love and compassion through intention, connection and your breath.

You can still have a loud crazy house and be juggling all the plates and do this work. I always say it’s for all of us! There’re no special requirements. I’m a busy single (or double) mum to two young kids, I have sole care of them and juggle work and life and all the stuff we all have to deal with. I get it, I really do.

I started to lean on these tools because life felt completely overwhelming, I was hanging on by a thread and I was scared. Living with chronic anxiety I was trying to heal and grieve. I was burned out, poorly, leaning on alcohol to get through and didn’t recognise myself.

I turned to breathwork in all honesty so I could calm the anxiety enough to eat. I’d have laughed in your face if you’d told me what breathwork and the cold would eventually do for me.

Magic happens when we can sit with feelings of safety through our discomfort and pain, to truly process our emotions. I say breathwork saved my life and I mean it, it got me through the dark days and allowed me to feel what need to be felt. I was able to sit with the fear and carve out little moments to connect to myself and really begin to live the life I wanted to live.

Breathwork and cold water support me do things every day I never believed possible. It’s why I’m so passionate about sharing this work and it’s also the why behind the way I share it which is always from a place of safety with love and compassion.