478 - Breathwork for Real Life: No 45-Minute Morning Routine Required with MJ Renshaw

You tell yourself you’re easygoing. 

You don’t yell, you rarely cry, you keep it together when everyone else falls apart.

But what looks like calm is often something else entirely: a lifetime of suppressing anything uncomfortable, and a body quietly paying the bill for it.

MJ Renshaw, author of How to Cry and founder of the Being Method, joins me to explain the real science of what suppressed emotion does to your body, and how to actually let it move through, whether that’s learning to cry again, releasing anger without spilling it onto the people you love, or using your breath as a remote control for your nervous system.

If you’ve spent years being the composed one and can feel the cost of it, this conversation will show you the way back into your own body.

What You’ll Learn

• What actually happens physiologically when you cry, and why suppressing it drives cortisol up
• How chronically suppressed emotions show up as tension, symptoms, and even disease over time
• Why anger needs to move through the body, and specific somatic ways to release it without harming anyone
• How to teach kids that all emotions are okay while still holding clear limits on behavior
• Breathwork as the built-in remote control for your nervous system, and how to weave it into ordinary moments

A note: this episode includes candid discussion of trauma, including abuse, loss, and suicide. Please take care of yourself as you listen. If you’re struggling, reach out to a licensed professional or a trusted person in your life.

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