Listen To This | Meet My Friend & Breathwork Practitioner!
A Podcast Rec for Friday, January 31st
Welcome to Listen to This, a new feature within Welcome Wanderer. Each day, I share a favorite podcast episode or audiobook —something that moved me, challenged me, or simply made life a little brighter.
Podcast of The Day:
Moving Forward with Jen Baker | Moving Forward with Romay | Jan 27 2025 | 42 min
Why It Mattered To Me:
Romay is not only a somatic practitioner, but a dear friend. She started In.Spire Somatics after discovering the power of breathwork to heal her own emotional trauma and offload decades of pent-up stress and anxiety. In this interview, Romay shares a bit about her journey—the deconstruction of her faith and her divorce. I’m so grateful for her presence and voice in the world! If you are looking for an empathetic witness and a safe place to release and process heavy emotions, set up a call with Romay (online or in-person!).
Press Pause on These Words:
“For me, breathwork has become a way of life, of noticing and feeling that survival energy that is still stored in my system and allowing it to instinctively release.”
“We come into some stuff, like this kind of work, with the hopes of getting rid of the hard feelings or we have this sense of I just want to feel better, I just want to get rid of all the hard stuff, when what the goal is to do is to soften towards it. Because that wanting to get rid of is actually us gripping onto it…The goal is always to soften, to relax that grip and allow what our body is wanting to process, to process, because the emotions that we don’t express naturally in life those are the ones that get suppressed in our bodies. An emotion is energy in motion, it’s real, it’s not like voodoo magic…this energy is real and it’s actually measurable in our somatic bodies, in our actual cellular structure…
-Romay Nichols
Question for you: Have you ever experienced a guided breathwork session before?
Your curious friend,
Charissa
PS: I’d love to hear if you’ve benefitted in some way from these daily podcast episodes and audiobook recs?