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Breathe It Out (Recharge Challenge Week 3)

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You’ve been told to “just take a deep breath” more times than you can count.
Usually by someone who doesn’t realize you’ve been holding your breath since pre-med.

This week on Ending Physician Overwhelm, we’re talking about something deceptively simple — breathing. Not the kind of “calm down” breath that makes you want to throw a stethoscope, but intentional, physiologic breathing that actually changes your body chemistry.

In Week 3 of the 10-Week Recharge Challenge, we’re taking a minute (literally, one minute) to breathe — on purpose. Because even when the world doesn’t give you space, your breath can.

In this episode, we’ll explore:
🫁 Why most of us are over-breathing and under-resting — and how to fix that
⏱️ A one-minute breathing practice that resets your nervous system (no mat, no app, no drama)
📚 What the research (and the book Breath by James Nestor) reveals about how our modern lives have changed how we breathe
🧠 How intentional breathing retrains your brain to recognize safety — and why that matters in burnout recovery

You’ll finish this episode feeling calmer, clearer, and ready to reclaim your next inhale.

🎧 Listen now, and then try the practice right where you are — standing in line, sitting in your car, walking into a patient room.

👉 Join the 10-Week Recharge Challenge for Women Physicians — where we’re layering micro-habits to unwind the stress you’ve been carrying for years.

📚 Curious to go deeper? Find Breath and other favorites in my Bookshop collection.

Next week: we’ll keep building on these habits as we explore how movement reconnects us to ourselves — even when we’re tired, busy, and a little skeptical.

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