We Are Woman

In this conversation on We Are Woman , we continue our discussion with El. Together, we explore peak experiences, nervous system capacity, and why more intensity does not always create more growth. What stands out here is the shift from chasing big breakthroughs to learning how to listen more deeply to the body. The conversation also touches on women, choice, shame, burnout, and how breathwork can...

In this episode of We Are Woman , Gideon Hanze joins us to explore how research and data can support FBR breathwork while preserving its therapeutic depth and human connection. Gideon shares how he moved from neuropsychology and data science into breathwork, and how his team is studying what happens during sessions. The conversation also looks at practitioner training, safety, clinical application...

This conversation of We Are Woman explores what happens when the nervous system is stuck in hyperarousal and sleep starts to suffer. We unpack why forcing stillness can sometimes make tension worse, and why movement, shaking, and expression can be the more restorative path. We discuss the difference between safety and comfort, how to recognise when your system needs mobilisation before relaxation,...

In this episode of We Are Woman , we explore the masculine and feminine as two energies that can work in synergy rather than as opposing identities to fix or choose between. The conversation focuses on how embodiment, breath, boundaries, and trust reveal where we default, where we overcompensate, and how integration creates more steadiness in life. We unpack why the goal is not to become “more fem...

In this episode of 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, we speak with El about how burnout, relationship breakdown, anxiety, depression, and numbness led her into breathwork and nervous system healing. El shares how FBR, facilitated breath repatterning, helped her move from shutdown and disconnection into greater presence, self-trust, and embodied choice. We discuss how overwhelm can push the nervous system beyond its w...

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧! In this episode, we explore why so many of us know what we want to say, do, or express, yet still hold back. We trace that gap not to a lack of confidence, but to safety, shame, learned protection, and the nervous system. Together, we look at how expression shows up through voice, movement, body image, boundaries, and everyday self-editing, and why true expression can...

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧! Today, Sara and Bec open season two by sharing major life changes, including Sara’s move from Byron to the Netherlands and Bec’s family move into Byron Hinterland. They frame the season around a central question: why do we so often know what we want to say, yet struggle to actually say it? This conversation sets up the season’s focus on express...

An honest conversation about what stayed with us, what surprised us, and what we're taking into Season 2. This week we're doing something a little different. Instead of diving into a new topic, the three of us sat down for a relaxed conversation to reflect on Season 1. Over a cup of tea and a chat, we looked back on the conversations that stayed with us, the themes that kept resurfacing, t...

This episode of We Are Woman is a conversation about nervous system safety, human connection, and the deeper role of touch in FBR Breathwork. Today, Mel and Sara explore touch, both within FBR Breathwork and as something deeply human. Touch exists so naturally in our lives that we often don’t stop to think about it. The way we hold a child when they cry, place a hand on someone when they’re hurtin...

In this episode of We Are Woman, Bec sits down with Mishae Bailitis, a psychotherapist with a Master's in Gestalt Psychotherapy, trained in sensorimotor psychotherapy and the Gottman couples therapy method. Bec has had the privilege of witnessing Mishae's work firsthand, and what struck her is his rare ability to hold space for really deep, complex pain while also making room for lightness...

There’s a version of womanhood many of us learned very early in life — the good girl. The one who is polite, responsible, helpful, and easy to be around. The one who tries to get things right, doesn’t cause trouble, and quietly carries what’s needed. For many of us, being that girl meant being liked, accepted, and safe. And so, over time, it becomes something we carry with us into adulthood. In th...

This conversation with Vanessa Forbes moves beyond music as something we simply listen to… and into music as something we feel , something that meets us, and something that can open parts of us we may not have had access to before. Vanessa is a musician and space holder whose work sits at the intersection of sound, healing, and expression. What unfolds in this conversation is less about technique...

In this conversation, we sit down with Dan Kurlapski , co-founder of Breathwork Byron and, Yes& Conscious Leadership. Dan’s work is grounded in a deep belief in thriving humans, in our capacity to meet life fully, and to live with more presence, range, and potential. Together, we explore the different ways we meet life - through doing, striving, bracing, or sometimes finding it hard to move at...

In this episode of We Are Woman , we explore the idea of sisterhood and what becomes possible when women support one another instead of feeling like we are competing. Through conversation and gentle reflection, we look at how many of us have experienced both sides of this dynamic - the beauty of being uplifted and held by another woman, and the moments where comparison, judgment, or old wounds can...

Food has become confusing. We’re constantly being told what to eat, what to avoid, and how to optimise our health,  yet many of us feel more disconnected than ever. In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Powell , a nutritionist specialising in body composition, gut health and thyroid health, as well as GI mapping, food intolerance and functional testing, to explore what’s really going on beneath...

In this week’s episode, we explore what shadow death really is. A deeply human process of shedding. The seasons where something that once fit no longer does. The identities, roles, and ways of operating that quietly begin to soften. We speak to how this can feel dark, disorienting, even tender at times, and how that darkness does not mean something is wrong. It can simply mean something is changin...

This week’s conversation feels like a return to something ancient, familiar, and deeply needed. A space where women gather in honesty, in reflection, and in remembrance. Where stories are shared as lived experience. This is the essence of sitting in circle, and it’s exactly what unfolds here as we sit with Emma Yeadon Specialising in FBR Breathwork, Nervous System Regulation and Cacao Ceremony, Em...

In this episode of We Are Woman , we slow things down and explore the practice that quietly underpins so much of what we speak about here — Facilitated Breath Repatterning. We share what this work is, how we’ve come to it, and why it has become such a foundational part of how we understand ourselves and move through the world. We speak to FBR as a practice that meets the body with safety rather th...

In this week’s episode, we explore the nervous system as the quiet system shaping our energy, pace, and experience of the world each day. There’s so much content out there on the “nervous system” but we speak to what it actually feels like to move through life in a body that is often “on,” and how many of us were navigating activation long before we had language for it. We touch lightly on the sci...

In this episode, Sara sits down with Edward, the founder of FBR Breathwork and the teacher who has guided each of us on our practitioner path. Together they open a thoughtful and spacious conversation about the story behind the work. They explore the technique itself, and the lived experience that led Edward to breathwork in the first place. Edward shares openly about his personal journey, the que...

Strength can look beautiful and unwavering from the outside. Capable. Composed. The one who holds it all together. In this episode, Mel opens the space to explore her story beneath that strength. The identity so many women are praised for, and the quiet cost it can carry. For years, holding it all together felt powerful. Until her body began to speak. A tight jaw. A braced diaphragm. Shoulders tha...

Leadership is often thought of as something we step into, but rarely as something we return to . Yet women lead. We always have. Often in ways that go unnamed, unseen, or unrecognised by traditional definitions of power and authority. In this conversation, we explore leadership as something that begins inside the self. Not as a role to earn or a way to perform, but as a way of being rooted in love...

In this episode, we open the space for Sara’s story and meet her in the places that shaped her. It is an invitation to meet the human behind the voice of this space, and to understand what has informed her path, her work, and her relationship to being a woman. Sara shares her journey from entering the international modelling industry at 14 to the slow, repetitive conditioning that shaped her relat...

In this episode of We Are Woman , we slow power right down and ask a different question: what is power, really? Not the performative kind, and not dominance, confidence, or control, but the kind you can actually feel in your body. The kind that is steady, grounded, and quietly alive. We explore power as capacity: the ability to stay connected to yourself, your truth, your inner signals, and your b...

This week on We Are Woman, we sat with Bec, founder of The Sharp Mind and a Strategic Psychotherapist who works in partnership with your nervous system. Using transformative modalities including Facilitated Breath Repatterning (FBR) breathwork, hypnotherapy, somatic practices, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), Bec helps you restore balance and healing. In this episode, Bec shares what it’s like t...