It All Starts With A Breath Podcast

2025 was probably one of the most transformative years of my life — although I couldn’t have known that while I was living through it.

It was a year of huge highs, difficult endings, unexpected realisations and moments that forced me to look at how I had been living my life.

In this episode, I’m reflecting on a year that began on a mountain in Poland, took me through some of the hardest months I’ve experienced, brought answers I had spent a lifetime without, and ultimately changed the way I understand myself, my body, my work and the life I want to build.

Sometimes we don’t understand why things are happening while we’re in the middle of them. Sometimes it’s only when we look back that we can see how one moment was leading us towards the next.

2025 taught me that sometimes things have to fall apart before we can rebuild — and this time, I’m rebuilding with a much deeper understanding of who I actually am.

Thank you for listening.

And a huge thank you, as always, to my wonderful producer, Connor Sweetman.

Sending you so much love and light 💫

Remember, it all starts with a breath 💛

Charlotte x

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In this episode of Everyday Resilience, I take you back to 2024 — a year when, from the outside, I probably looked like I was holding everything together, while quietly, inside, I was struggling.

Our business was under enormous pressure, my dad was very unwell, I was having my own health investigated, and I was carrying the weight of decisions I knew would eventually change our lives.

And yet, alongside all of that, something else was happening.

I was continuing my breathwork training, discovering spaces where I felt safe enough to use my voice, deepening my connection to myself, and experiencing changes in my relationship with Jamie that I can only describe as incredibly special.

Looking back, 2024 reminds me of one of the biggest lessons life has taught me: sometimes you don't need to know how you're going to get through something. You just need to take the next step.

One foot in front of the other.

And eventually, even when the walk feels long and dark, you begin moving towards the light.

I finish this episode with a simple breath-awareness practice — an invitation to pause, notice your breath without judgement, and check in with yourself exactly as you are today.

Thanks as always to my producer Conor Sweetman

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Everyday Resilience: Alcohol Free

2nd of January, 2023. I think it might have been the first day of my new future, but at that moment I had no idea. I decided to stop drinking. Finally. It had taken me two years of talking about it, not being able to go through with it. Honestly, I was in the grip of it. I was going to have to find other ways to cope with sadness, stress, joy, all of it. I was going to have to start feeling more and numbing less.

Join me for this episode to hear how that one decision changed everything.

With thanks as always to my producer Conor Sweetman

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Everyday Resilience - When Everything Changed

2022 started with our biggest achievement - opening our dream gym. We'd invested everything, poured our hearts into creating something beautiful. That moment our sign went up, we cried tears of joy. We had no idea what was coming.

In this deeply personal episode, I share the year that taught me everything can change in an instant. From the high of hosting our first magical retreat to the gut punch of losing my job of 10 years soon after. From setting my first real boundary (and losing a friendship because of it) to recognizing I was drowning in ungrieved losses - Jim, my job, my friend, my divorce.

I'd been talking about stopping drinking for years but never had the strength. By the end of 2022, something had shifted. I was finally ready for real change.

This episode explores what happens when life strips everything away and asks you to rebuild. It's about the cost of boundaries, the weight of unprocessed grief, and that pivotal moment when talking about change becomes being ready for it.

I invite you to consider: What change have you been talking about but not making? What's stopping you? And perhaps most importantly - what do you gain by staying the same?

Join me for some breathing at the end as we create space to explore these questions together.

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Everyday Resilience: Running to Stillness

2021 was the year I thought I had it all together.

I trained for months to ski 100km on my Ski Erg in one day, got married four days later, and kept living at a million miles an hour. Even lockdown hadn't taught me how to slow down — I'd just learnt how to be busy in the quiet.

Then I went to Ireland. I lay down, I breathed, and for the first time in my life, I felt safe inside my own body.

A few weeks later, I lost Jim — my cat, my best friend, the one who'd been with me through everything. He left on the winter solstice. The shortest day.

In this episode, I share the whole story. The endurance. The transformation. The grief. And how 2021 became the year that quietly changed everything.

Producer: Conor Sweetman

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The year we locked down. For some this was a disastrous time, and considering we had only opened the doors of our business in 2019, this wasn’t great timing for a new business, this was however exactly what I didn’t realise I needed.

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As always a huge thank you to my amazing producer Conor Sweetman - IG @conorsweetman.stories

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Before you listen - I want to let you know this episode is heavy. I share openly about pregnancy loss and a serious head injury. If either of those topics feel difficult for you right now, please feel free to skip this one or come back when you're in a safer space to listen. And if anything comes up for you, please reach out for support. You don't have to hold it alone - Samaritans Helpline is 116 123 from any phone.

This year started with magic.

Lapland with Jamie. A proposal in one of our favourite places. A new business. A future we were building together.

And then — quietly, privately — something happened that I carried in silence for years.

A decision no woman makes lightly. A grief I didn't know how to name. And a shame I thought I had to hold alone.

Weeks later, our world shattered in a completely different way.

A phone call in the middle of the night. A hospital. ICU. Brain surgery.

And through all of it — the world just kept moving.

It didn't pause. It didn't wait for me to be ready.

I wish I had breathwork then.

This is one of the hardest episodes I've ever recorded.

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As always a huge thank you to my amazing producer Conor Sweetman - IG @conorsweetman.stories

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2018 continued at the whirlwind pace of 2017, this year was full on....

....If I could have begun to understand what 2019 would be like, I think I would have frozen time here. Although I was living at a million miles an hour, there seemed so much potential in life, although I had lived through my divorce and it had been a tough journey, one that I was still very much on, life felt freer, lighter, and I don’t know if I will ever feel that feeling again. I am a firm believer that we are standing where we are now due to our life path and all the things we have done, experienced and witnessed, and I always say that I wouldn’t take anything back, as that would change who I am now. But I wish 2019 could have been different.

I wish I could have had my breathwork practise, I think it would have slowed me down a bit, and I know it would have supported me through the challenges that 2019 bought to us.

To continue the journey join me for episode 5 in 3 weeks - 2019.

Sending love and light.

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As always a huge thank you to my amazing producer Conor Sweetman - IG @conorsweetman.stories

Charlotte

Remember, it all starts with a breath.

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It’s always later when you look back you understand. There were many moments through our relationship that triggered me to grieve, I will share more about this over time. At the time, it felt strange, I was so in love, but something felt difficult inside my heart. I've never really shared about this feeling before, as I felt ashamed I guess, and to be honest at the time, I didn’t really know what was happening. But I realise now, it was just part of my grieving. When I fell in love with Jamie, was the first time I felt it. I guess, inside of me was letting go of when this happened before, was allowing me to move forward, was allowing me to start again...

Continuing the story that leads me to now - 2026.

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Sending love and light

Charlotte

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Welcome back to Season 2 of my podcast. This season will see 12 full episodes, I'm keen to share through this season, adversity, bouncing back from life's challenges, everyday resilience - which usually comes with sharing difficulty, tragedy, being vulnerable. It can be heavy to discuss, heavy to hear, but I believe we are all human, and we connect through experience, although none of us can ever have the exact same experience we certainly walk similar paths - and knowing we are never truly alone on the path is often enough to help us to keep walking. When it feels dark outside, know that I or someone else is only steps in front or behind and between us all we will light the way.

2016... listen now.

Sending love and light.

Remember, it all starts with a breath.

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