Health by Heidi

“How in the world am I gonna get through this day?” “Ugh.  Slept like shit.  Tired and cranky.” “I hate everything.” And my favorite: “It’s easy to get buried under the asshole parts of the day.” These are a minuscule sampling of some of my journal entries from the past several months.  Without realizing it, perimenopause had slowly dropped its veil over my eyes.  While I am not yet experiencing the physical symptoms, I have every single one of the mental and emotional symptoms.  It happened so slowly I didn’t notice. It crept up steathily, like a burglar in the night.  My mood worsened in increments.  My tolerance for people dripped away like a slow leaking bucket.  My sleep became more and more interrupted, resulting in me lying awake for hours during the night. I would wake up exhausted, wondering how I could possibly get through the day when the simple act of speaking seemed monumental. I noticed that I was losing interest in my favorite hobbi...

 "Do you do breath work every day?"   I had just finished a breath work session with a client, and as we were recapping his experience, he asked me that question.   "No," I answered.  Then I smiled, realizing that breath work had become such a habit in my daily routine that I forgot I was even doing it.  It had just become the way.  “Actually, yes I do.”  I proceeded to give him the run down of the various types of breath work that I do, including the one I do daily without thinking about it now.  We will get to that in a moment. Breath work has been making headlines in the mainstream media recently, although it has been practiced for centuries or longer by cultures around the world.  I believe that what finally brought it to the forefront here in the US is the rise in awareness about anxiety, depression, and mental illness.  People have been suffering silently for years with mental illness disorders, but only recently has soci...