For years I had my hands on the problem from the outside.
As a chiropractor I saw the same woman over and over. Competent, composed, running something significant. Her body braced in a way no adjustment held for longer than a fortnight, because the load was not structural — it was systemic.
She was usually somewhere between forty and fifty-five. She had usually been told her bloods were normal. She had usually stopped mentioning the 3am waking because nobody had done anything with the information the first three times.
I did not leave clinical work. I changed instruments. Breath is the only part of the autonomic nervous system a person can take direct hold of, and perimenopause is precisely the phase where that system loses its own brake. The tool and the problem met.
I studied the human body for seven years, to a masters level. I am not your average breathwork practitioner who completed a few hundred hours and called it a qualification. I understand the science to a deeper level — and the work to a deeper one. When you are trusting someone with your nervous system in a phase as fragile as perimenopause, that distance matters.
This is not abstract for me. Breathwork is what pulled me out of my own burnout — not as a theory I read about, but as the thing that worked when nothing else did. I came to it the hard way, and I stayed because it held.
I am not a coach and I am not a healer. I am someone who understands the body as a system, who reads the research, and who is not going to tell you this is about self-care.
