#444: Shifting Stress into Strength: Cold Exposure & Breathwork with Kristin Weitzel

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Prepare to immerse yourself in a captivating exploration of cold water exposure and breathwork, as Mark Groves and Kristin Weitzel unravel the profound impact these practices have on mental health, emotional regulation, and personal growth. Kristin, the founder of Sherpa Breath and Cold, shares her expertise on the physiological effects of cold immersion, revealing how it can boost dopamine levels and enhance emotional resilience. Mark adds his personal insights, illustrating how these practices have empowered him to tackle life's challenges with newfound strength and clarity. Kristin Weitzel is the driving force behind SHERPA Breath & Cold and WELLPOWER, serving as a health and high-performance expert, nutrition specialist, biohacker, and certified fitness trainer who has established herself as a leader in global breathwork and cold exposure. Her worldwide work supports diverse communities, the female biohacking movement, universities, and professional athletes through performance enhancement practices and self-healing techniques. Her flagship SHERPA Breath & Cold Instructor Certification has equipped over 200 coaches across North America and the Caribbean to build successful wellness platforms, while her international speaking engagements, 'Warrior Woman' coaching programs, and the WELLPOWER Podcast showcase her expertise in female biohacking, offering practical tools and inspiring stories that challenge the limits of human potential and help others achieve greatness. Episode Links: —SHERPA Breath & Cold: https://www.sherpabreathandcold.com/instructorcertification —WELLPOWER Podcast: https://www.wellpower.life/ —Women's Biohacking Program: https://www.wellpower.life/special This episode is sponsored by: —Cozy Earth: Use code MARK for 40% off sitewide at http://www.cozyearth.com —PLUNGE: Use code MARKGROVES for $150 off at https://markgroves.com/plunge —Have a question for Mark to answer on the podcast?https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast —Have a question for Mark and want an immediate answer? Mark's Dexa page: https://ask.markgroves.com —How are your Nervous System + Attachment Style connected? https://markgroves.com/connectthedots —Contact us at [email protected] for sponsor product support, questions, comments, or just to say hello!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast. If you've been following me for a while,
0:04.7	you know that I'm really deeply invested in understanding how do we regulate our nervous system.
0:09.7	How do we create more practices, more experiences, how do we use different skills to be able to
0:15.9	manage our own experience so that we can create amazing relationships so that we can make good choices
0:21.6	in our lives. And we're not taught how to do this and it makes sense that these different
0:26.1	practices like breathwork, meditation, cold water exposure, you know, all the different ways
0:31.7	that we build this skill of putting ourselves under some sort of hermetic stress to increase our capacity to,
0:40.3	you know, be in what would be called the window of tolerance, this place where you still have
0:44.3	access to your problem-solving brain. Because when you're dysregulated, you can't, you're not
0:49.1	relational. You can't handle conflict well. You don't make good decisions about your life.
0:59.0	You know, if you're stuck in this state of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, you're like not creating life, you're surviving life.
1:01.0	And of course, there are circumstances in our lives that create that, but I'm like,
1:05.0	how do we actually resource ourselves in a way by exposing ourselves to things like cold water, how does that actually make us a
1:13.0	better person? How does that improve our lives? Because of course, that's what's important. Not only
1:17.4	do you get a good video on the gram and all joking aside, but you also get some sort of
1:23.0	difference in the way you relate and the way you relate to yourself. And that's everything.
1:29.3	You know, at the core of everything I do, and if you don't know me, my name is Mark Groves.
1:33.3	I love talking, teaching, and learning about relationships, human connection, human systems.
1:38.3	And how do we create epic relationships, but also more importantly, an epic life?
1:43.3	This interview today is with someone
1:45.0	who's an expert in the space of both breath and cold water exposure. And I wanted to do an episode
1:49.6	actually diving deeper into the physiology and what is going on in our bodies and what temperature
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