DeepSummary
In this episode, Dr. Mindy Pelz interviews Kate Horseman, a breathwork expert who has been integral to Dr. Mindy's healing journey. Kate shares her personal journey of struggle with an eating disorder and how dance and eventually breathwork became a means of expression and healing for her. She explains her approach to therapeutic breathwork, which involves active breathing techniques to access trauma stored in the body.
Kate describes the different stages of a breathwork session, including creating an intention, grounding in the body, engaging in active breathing, allowing emotions and experiences to surface, and reintegrating the insights gained. She emphasizes the importance of creating a safe, supportive container for this deep work and highlights the uniqueness of breathwork in accessing the body's innate wisdom and healing capacity.
The conversation explores the role of breathwork in emotional detox, trauma processing, and holistic healing, particularly for women navigating perimenopause and menopause. Kate and Dr. Mindy discuss the potential of breathwork in complementing other treatments and fostering self-discovery and authenticity during these transitional phases of life.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Therapeutic breathwork is a powerful tool for accessing and releasing trauma stored in the body, facilitating emotional detox and self-discovery.
- A breathwork session involves creating a safe container, setting intentions, active breathing techniques, allowing emotions and experiences to surface, and integrating insights.
- Breathwork can be particularly beneficial for women navigating perimenopause and menopause, as it offers an opportunity to release what no longer serves and step into authenticity during these transitional phases.
- Breathwork complements and can be integrated with other treatments, offering a holistic approach to healing rather than a one-time solution.
- The body holds innate wisdom and the capacity for healing, and breathwork provides a means to access and honor this without outsourcing to external aids.
- Creating a supportive, non-judgmental space is crucial for facilitating the deep emotional work involved in breathwork.
- Breathwork can foster curiosity, self-connection, and a sense of freedom, aligning with the essence of health as defined by Kate Horseman.
- Kate Horseman's unique approach combines her professional training in counseling with various healing modalities to offer a multi-dimensional framework for breathwork therapy.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “If we allow this expression to come through, there is something that shifts in the body where it's like, you know, after a big cry and we do one of these, oh, something just reset itself there.“ by Kate Horseman
- “And we're not outsourcing anything to anyone other than our own lungs.“ by Kate Horseman
- “If you've been listening to the different podcasts over the last couple weeks, Doctor Sarah Gottfried, in the last podcast before this one, talked about breath work as a form of healing trauma. And that's exactly what Kate does, that her style of breath work is trauma work.“ by Mindy Pelz
- “I feel like every woman over 40 should get a session with Kate and really dive into what your body is telling you as you go through the menopausal experience, because there's an opportunity there to release what no longer serves you and to step into an incredibly beautiful, authentic version of yourself.“ by Mindy Pelz
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Episode Information
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy Pelz
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4/1/24
Kate Horsman is a breathwork expert who has been integral to Dr. Mindy’s healing journey. Kate's trauma-focused breathwork approach aids in releasing stored traumas, which is particularly beneficial for women navigating perimenopause and menopause. In this episode, Kate and Dr. Mindy discuss the transformative impact of breathwork on healing, emphasizing cellular-level trauma release in contrast to other techniques. Kate shares her healing journey and the importance of relational healthcare in fostering deep healing spaces. The conversation delves into various breathwork practices, highlighting the role of breathwork in emotional detox and trauma processing for holistic healing experiences.
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Kate Horsman is a Nature-based Holistic Therapist and Breathwork Therapist. This field merges her education and work as a Professional Counsellor, Therapeutic Breathwork Facilitator and Mindfulness leader in Vancouver, BC Canada, the sacred and ancestral lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. Her education is dimensional, including multiple modalities to approach healing work. Her schooling has brought her to Professional Counselling (VCCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Nutrition (CSNN), and Plant-based science (eCornell), melding the bridge betw
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