Trauma-Informed Breathwork for Deep Healing

We hear the term trauma-informed more and more these days. And while it’s powerful and necessary, it can also feel a bit vague. What does it really mean in practice? Especially when we’re working with something as personal and profound as breathwork, energy, and deep emotional release?

For me, being trauma-informed doesn’t mean avoiding depth. It means creating a space where depth is met with safety. Where your body feels supported enough to let go of what it’s been holding- when you are ready.

Because when you feel safe, your system opens. And when your system opens, real transformation can happen.

The Neurobiochemical Side of Trauma

Trauma doesn’t only live in the memory of the mind. It lives in the body. It shapes how we breathe, how we hold tension, how we react—and how we don’t.

Let me share a glimpse of what happens in your inner landscape:

• Your amygdala (the brain’s alarm system) gets hyperactive after trauma, perceiving neutral situations as threats.

• Your hippocampus (which gives you a sense of time) gets confused—so past pain can feel like it’s still happening right now.

• Your prefrontal cortex (responsible for logic and self-regulation) can shut down in high stress, which is why it’s hard to “think your way out” of overwhelm.

At the same time, your nervous system flips between hyperarousal (fight/flight) and hypoarousal (freeze/shutdown). Long-term stress floods the body with cortisol, exhausting your system. But when we feel held and connected, the body begins to release oxytocin—the safety hormone. This softens the system, reopens capacity, and slowly brings us home to presence.

Breathwork, when done with care, can guide the body back into regulation.
It’s not just emotional—it’s neurochemical. It’s physical, mental, and spiritual all at once.

Trauma-Informed ≠ Emotion-Free

Let’s make one thing clear: trauma-informed doesn’t mean “keeping it calm and light at all costs.”

My work is rooted in holding you where you are—and meeting whatever arises with presence and respect.
Sometimes that means quiet stillness.
And sometimes that means deep, powerful emotional release—catharsis.

When the body feels safe enough to release what it’s been carrying, it will.
And when it does, I’m there with you.

This is not about forcing breakthroughs.
It’s about allowing what’s ready to move, to move.
To break through - instead of breaking down. 

Shadow Work & Light Work – Holding the Whole of You

For me personally it’s not solely about guiding you into peace - more about guiding towards  wholeness. That includes the parts that have been hidden, repressed, or denied.

Shadow work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about meeting the parts of you that learned to hide in order to stay safe.
The places where the mind says “not that,” but the body says, “please see me.”

And just as much, it’s about remembering your light.
Your clarity. Your inner truth. Your softness. Your spark.

Transformation doesn’t happen in the mind alone. It happens through sensation, awareness, and breath.
When you stop trying to control it - and start letting it rise.

The Bigger Picture – Timing, Cycles, and the Energy Around You

We don’t live in a vacuum. We’re affected by the invisible tides around us—emotionally, energetically, astrologically.

In my work, I also draw on cosmic and intuitive guidance, helping you understand the cycles you’re in, the energies you’re navigating, and how they relate to your unique blueprint.

Astrology is not about prediction, it’s not about short snippets in a weekly magazine (how fun and accurate they may be 😘 )  - it’s more about resonance.
It has the possibility to give us language for what you may already feel:
That some chapters are meant for releasing. Some for reclaiming. And some, for fully arriving in who you’re becoming.

So…

To be trauma-informed is to honor the body’s pace. To honor the breath, the resistance, and most of all - the unfolding.
And to recognize that healing isn’t linear - and it doesn’t always look like a specific manual. 

But when held with safety, presence, and deep listening - your body knows the way through.

If you want to experience this in practice, you’re welcome to:

• Join me for 12 weeks of Breath, Coaching & Energy - feel the shifts for real. 

• Join for a breathwork session

• Join in for one of my digital series

• Or simply stay connected and feel when the timing is right for you

Your healing doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s.
It only has to feel like you 🤗

Trauma-informed doesn’t mean staying small.
It means creating a space so steady, so safe, that your system can finally say:

Yes.
I’m ready.
I’m not alone in this anymore.

And from that place - true transformation begins.
- Kia
(photo from Studio Hember, Döbelnsgatan 12 a)