In this video I’m sharing one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed since consistently practicing conscious breathwork: my relationship with food has completely changed. I got into breathwork in 2019 and really dove in during 2020, and over the last few years it’s been like my day-to-day desires just… shifted. When you build a real relationship with your breath, you start noticing how certain foods (or huge portions, or heavy meals) literally make your breath shallow. And when my breath gets shallow, my thoughts get shallow, and that little cycle starts rolling. I talk about cravings lifting, appetite decreasing, and how much of eating can be habit-based—emotional eating, social eating, and just doing what’s “normal.” For me, I’m rarely hungry first thing in the morning, and I often won’t eat until around noon. Breathwork helped me see food differently: it’s not shameful to indulge sometimes (I’m human), but I prefer not to choose things that disconnect me from spirit and presence. I also share something important: sometimes breathwork brings emotions up, and the mind tries to rush to “safe space” through food. If hunger hits right after breathwork, I’ll often walk, move my body, journal, or cry—because a lot of the time it’s not true hunger, it’s unprocessed emotion asking to be felt.