DUMP Breathwork
Breathwork for high-performing women navigating perimenopause or burnout — and support for better sleep and the particular exhaustion that comes from holding everything together.
Recognition
You wake at 3am. Not anxious about anything in particular. Just awake, wired, cataloguing.
You are more capable than you have ever been and you feel further from yourself than you have ever been.
The rage arrives out of proportion to the thing that caused it, and then the shame arrives after it.
You have had the bloods done. Everything came back normal. You were told you are fine.
A moment for you
You don’t need to be in perimenopause to be running on empty. And hormonal changes can arrive alongside an already heavy load.
This is a reflection, not a diagnosis or a validated medical screening tool. No email required. Answers are not saved or sent to Bridg.
Eight questions about work, sleep and changes in your body. Think about what you’ve noticed recently, compared with what is usual for you.
Informed by WHO burnout guidance and NHS menopause guidance. No likelihood score is calculated.
The gap
You are not broken. You are not damaged. You are not too much and you have not lost your edge.
You are under-informed about what is happening in your own endocrine system, under-supported by a model of medicine that measures you once and calls it normal, and consistently under-estimated by everyone who mistakes your competence for wellbeing.
None of that requires you to become a different woman. It requires better information and a body that can act on it.
The mechanism
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Perimenopause can bring difficulty falling or staying asleep, sometimes alongside night sweats. A 3am wake is not proof of a hormonal cause: stress and other health conditions can also disrupt sleep. You deserve support that considers the whole picture.
02
Burnout can follow chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Exhaustion, distance from work and reduced effectiveness deserve attention in their own right — whether or not you are in perimenopause. Support includes addressing the demands you face, not simply asking you to cope better.
03
Your breath is one part of an automatic system you can consciously influence. Research suggests regulated breathing may help reduce stress. Gentle breathing can be part of winding down for sleep; it is different from the guided Conscious Connected Breathing at the centre of our sessions.
Who is holding the room
Bridg spent years as a chiropractor with her hands on the same problem from the outside: a nervous system running hot, a body braced against itself, a woman being told she was fine.
She understands the body as a system — how load moves through it, where it gets held, what it costs to hold. Breathwork is simply the most direct instrument she has found for a phase of life that conventional care still treats as a rounding error.
The work
One to one
She meets you. She understands her body for the first time. She trusts you.
Every woman begins with a minimum six-week, one-to-one private journey. We reassess at every six weeks and extend by agreement. Only when your nervous system is regulated and your baseline metrics are functional do you move into the monthly container.
The container
She is held by women who understand without needing to be explained.
Up to eight women, placed together by circumstance. Perimenopausal, high functioning, or in crisis. Each container is held differently, because each group needs something different.
Three pillars
01
For the woman who wants back the parts of herself that perimenopause or burnout seems to have taken.
02
For the woman whose ground has genuinely given way and is looking for someone who won't flinch while she falls apart.
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For the woman holding it together — and privately running on empty. She built a life that looks like success and feels like survival.
Every woman begins with the private journey. We do not skip the foundation.
We check where you are at each six-week mark and extend by agreement — nothing is forced.
Because this is not right for everyone, and finding that out afterwards helps nobody.
Words from women
“I have spent four years being told my results were normal. This was the first hour anyone explained what was actually happening to me.”
“I did not cry because I was sad. I cried because something finally let go. I slept through the night for the first time in two years.”
There is nothing to decide today. Read the method. Sit with it. When the timing is yours rather than anyone else's, the application is here.