Sophie Kirkton Breathwork

A mini challenge this week! Oh and put the sound on 🌊

Put your phone away for 10 mins and sit. Sit somewhere in nature. A garden, woodland, the sea, a park it doesn’t matter where.

That’s it, just sit, get bored, feel some feelings then feel a whole load better for it ✨

If you do it or you’ve just done it let me know how you got on in the comments☀️

I know a lot of you are struggling with number 1 in this heat!

Honestly, are you meeting all 5? I see huge shifts in people working a week of focusing on meeting their basic needs. It’s the foundation we build everything else on.

Let me know how you’re getting on a make sure you follow for tools that help you feel like yourself again.

Sophie x

I don’t talk a lot about staying calm for parenting by using breathwork much at all. I find the narrative around just make yourself calm to be a better parent really insulting.

It just further feeds into this narrative that we are somehow broken and need to be fixed. If we simply rise above (insert thing that is genuinely causing an issue in your family) and stay calm it will all be better or better still just stop happening.

It’s undeniable that if we can stay regulated and maintain clarity of thought when we get our buttons pushed we are more likely to respond in ways that we won’t regret later. It’s an incredible tool to use in the moment when you need to stay calm in the moment. But it’s not going to change things long term unless we move the focus away from it being about us and fixing ourselves and look at the bigger picture. Where the behaviour is coming from, what needs to change within the family unit.

I heard someone say that as women we are the basenote to our family and I couldn’t agree more. But to me that means, stop ignoring your needs, nourish yourself, rest. Ensure everyone is doing their bit so you can show up in the way you need to. It involves difficult conversations, boundaries and practice. It’s more than staying calm, maybe the most regulating thing you will do is have a really difficult series of conversations with a partner. Regulation isn’t calm.

Breathwork can be utterly life changing but it may not solve all of your pain points in life….

Sophie x

BUT only when the responsibility of change is

PSA for hay fever sufferers!

With a bit of practice kids love this one too and it works! I recommend the walking version with kids as it helps take their mind off holding their breath.

If it doesn’t work the first time keep going and you’ll need to repeat it a few times if you’re really stuffy and keep doing it when your nose blocks up again.

The cruel irony is that the less we breathe through our nose the more blocked it becomes so it’s worth preserving.

Make sure you follow along for all things breathwork

Sophie x

The bilateral tapping helps shift your body out of fight and flight and the hug is, well a hug! It still counts when you give it to yourself 😊

The cross body tapping helps engage both hemispheres of the brain and helps with emotional processing which is why it’s a family fave. Great for those shaky moments after little people have big feelings and don’t quite know what to do with themselves.

I find it hypnotic and oh so grounding.

Give it a go and let me know how it feels because after all that’s what it’s all about 🦋