For years I had my hands on the problem from the outside.
As a chiropractor, I kept seeing the same woman: competent, composed, running something significant, and braced in a way no adjustment held for longer than a fortnight. The load wasn’t structural. It was systemic.
I didn’t leave clinical work. I changed instruments. Breath is the only part of the autonomic nervous system you can take direct hold of, and perimenopause and burnout are the states where that system loses its own brake.
I studied the human body for seven years, to a masters level. I’m not your average breathwork practitioner who completed a few hundred hours and called it a qualification. When you’re trusting someone with your nervous system in a state as fragile as perimenopause or burnout, that distance matters.
This isn’t abstract for me. Breathwork is what pulled me out of my own burnout, and I stayed because it held.
I’m not a coach and I’m not a healer. I understand the body as a system, I read the research, and I’m not going to tell you this is about self-care.
I run DUMP Breathwork, which is called DUMP because that’s what it is. Not a journey. Not a reset. Not a ritual. It’s the room where you put the load down.