Born to Breathe
BORN TO BREATHE - WHY FUNCTIONAL BREATHING MATTERS WITH MELODY STEWART
Are you aware that the way you breathe influences the shape of your face?
Have you considered that your child’s breathing could be contributing to their ADHD symptoms?
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist and Functional Breathing Practitioner Melody Stewart joins me for a fascinating conversation exploring the connections between breathing, oral health, the nervous system and our emotional wellbeing.
We explore how restrictions in the mouth can influence feeding, breathing, sleep, posture and tension throughout the body, not just in babies but well into adulthood.
As always, I'm interested in looking beyond the physical symptoms and asking the deeper why.
We explore the relationship between chronic stress, the nervous system and tension in the jaw and tongue, why releasing a tongue tie isn't always the whole solution, and the importance of supporting the body as an interconnected system rather than treating individual parts in isolation.
One of the messages I hope you'll take away from this conversation is that our children develop in relationship with the environment around them and that includes us. The way we breathe, respond to stress and care for our own nervous systems can influence the environment in which our children grow and learn.
Whether you're planning a pregnancy, raising children, struggling with mouth breathing or sleep, or simply curious about the remarkable interconnectedness of the human body, this episode will invite you to look at breathing through a whole new lens.
Because as the saying goes, “The way you breathe is the way you live.”
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Melody’s story features in the book “The Way We Breathe Is Killing Us” by Roger Price and the Breathing Disordered Sleep Podcast by Dr Louis Chan.
