323. The power of breathwork
The Psychology of your 20s
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Breath work, as a therapeutic technique, is having it's day in the sun. You may be seeing videos about it cropping up everywhere, but the truth is that it's a very ancient and deeply powerful psychological practice... when done correctly.
In today's episode we are joined by our expert guest, Jessica Dibb, to break down the true power and science of breath work including:
- What breath work actually is (and what it isn't)
- The most common breath work techniques
- The major science + studies backing up it's legitimacy
- The breakthroughs people experience
- The downsides + so much more
Jessica's book here: Breathwork + Psychotherapy
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | There's a vile sickness in Abbas town. |
| 0:10.4 | You must excise it. |
| 0:12.8 | Dig into the deep earth and cut it out. |
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| 0:38.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:45.7 | through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for |
| 0:52.0 | our psychology. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast, new listeners, |
| 1:03.2 | old listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another |
| 1:08.8 | episode as we of course break down the psychology |
| 1:12.5 | of our 20s. Every few years, I feel like a new form of therapy rises to the surface. A new form |
| 1:23.0 | of mental health treatment, a new wellness practice becomes the new it thing. |
| 1:30.9 | A couple of years ago, it was like in a child healing, and that's still very relevant, |
| 1:35.3 | but everyone was very obsessed with it. |
| 1:37.8 | Reiki was another one, somatic release was another one that people got really, really obsessed with. |
| 1:46.6 | And when that happens, |
| 1:54.2 | there is this like real chance that we can become really kind of misinformed or that we can think that one mode of dealing with emotional and mental issues is the only mode that we should be pursuing. |
| 2:02.1 | Everything else that came before it was false. |
| 2:06.9 | And breathwork might just be the new it thing. |
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