Write Your Story: Can Breathing Together Change the World?
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I’ve wondered again and again how I can make a meaningful contribution during this dark time in human history and I keep coming back to this:
The power of our breath.
The simple act of showing up and intentionally breathing changed my life irrevocably many years ago and still continues to sustain me when I’m feeling “off” or desperate or stuck or frustrated that things haven’t gone my way.
Many cultures think of breath as Spirit.
Even the Christian tradition I was raised in uses the word “breath” to describe God’s Spirit.
Meanwhile the Buddhist tradition has a meditation practice called Tonglen that is based on the idea that we can transmute complex, thick, unsolvable suffering by simply bringing intention to the breath.
There are many other things you can do too (like protest, write a book, use your voice, create, call your representatives, march, etc) but… why not also try this?
In today’s episode, I’ll show you how.
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Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, and welcome to you, Write Your Story, podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Good job, girly. |
| 0:10.6 | Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back together with the words you write, all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find when you write your story. |
| 0:23.7 | You've got the words inside. |
| 0:25.5 | Don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down uncover what it's all about? |
| 0:32.6 | And write your, write your story. |
| 0:36.0 | Right your, write your story. Write your story. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm your host. |
| 0:44.7 | And on today's episode, I want to talk about this current world, this current environment |
| 0:49.4 | that we're living in that is so heavy, is so dark, has so much depravity in it, is so incomprehensible and |
| 0:59.7 | impossible, seemingly impossible to take in, to process, to metabolize. I want to talk about what |
| 1:07.0 | it feels like to live in this current world because I know I'm not the only person who's feeling this way. I've been talking to so many different people this week who are feeling |
| 1:14.7 | the same heaviness and isolation and helplessness that I am. So I want to address this specifically |
| 1:20.0 | and head on so that you know if you're listening to this, you are not alone. You are not |
| 1:24.3 | crazy for feeling this way. In fact, I posted this in my stories this |
| 1:28.2 | week on Instagram that if you're feeling crazy, if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you're feeling |
| 1:34.1 | absolutely like up to your eyeballs in horrific information and material, if like your heart is |
| 1:40.8 | ripped out of your chest, if you feel like you can't function at a normal level, if you feel |
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