DUMP Breathwork
Breathwork for high-performing women moving through perimenopause 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.
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
01
Progesterone is your buffer against cortisol. As it declines, the early-morning cortisol rise that should wake you gently at six arrives at three, unopposed. This is not poor sleep hygiene. It is an endocrine handover with no one holding the other end.
02
A decade of performing under load trains the body to treat sympathetic drive as baseline. When oestrogen — a modulator of that drive — begins fluctuating, the system loses its brake before it loses its accelerator. You feel it as intolerance, not tiredness.
03
Respiration is the only autonomic function you can take manual control of. Change the rate, the ratio and the depth and you change vagal tone, CO2 tolerance and cortisol clearance within minutes. It is the shortest available route into a system you cannot otherwise instruct.
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 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.
03
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.