Build Yourself a Breathing Room—Making my own sacred space for All That I Am and all that i am Becoming
I’ve been learning how to live my life well. In many ways, I’ve always known how. It was the understanding and respect I held for the people and places around me that gave me the courage to be patient. Now, as I discover myself — somehow anew, yet undeniably the same — I find a more honest relationship with responsibility.
The ability to respond to myself and my needs is not selfish or self-centered. I’ve had to heal the inner barriers that once shamed me for placing myself first. I’ve learned that this is a sacred gift — one I now allow myself to treasure each day. I love caring for myself. I love tending to the gifts I’ve been given. As I continue on this path and let go of material objects that once meant so much to me, I anchor even deeper into my inner wealth. I say thank you to each item and release it with grace, wishing it a safe new home. I trust it will find a place where it’s cherished as time goes on.
At the same time, I nurture my soul and my energy field. The challenges I’ve faced were never what I would have chosen — but I honor the resilience it took to navigate them.
Now, I walk a different path. A clearer one. I move forward with love for my life, my family, and all that I am growing into. I’m gaining confidence — intentionally and genuinely. Sometimes, fear arises — echoes from the past. But I’m no longer alone with those memories. I walk with my whole self now. Within my fullness, I carry wisdom, care, resolve, abundance, health, and joy into all that I seek and experience. I’ve given myself permission to begin a new chapter. And it’s unfolding for me. I can trust and relax, knowing that everything I do — when done with love — benefits those around me in ways far beyond what I can see.
Being here for myself and for those I love can feel challenging at times, especially when the external picture doesn’t yet match my internal truth. But I know now: that’s not a failure. That’s part of the shedding, the sacred grief, and the reorientation toward wholeness. So I give thanks.
To all that guides me. To the reclamation of my name, my softness, my sovereignty, my power, and my heart. To the courage I’ve shown. To my soul, my chosen family, my truth. May the coming days be filled with love. May I always know love. May life always know love.
Sometimes (oftentimes), you can get stuck in emotions and your system malfunctions. You feel hurts, and it can be felt even on days when you feel empowered. It’s not because of some failure on your part to let go of it, but because it is stored energy that no longer serves you — making you inefficient — and it’s time to release it. This is where you can call on yourself to show up to be more caring and start to build your own “Breathing Room.”
A Breathing Room is a message you hear. It is a slowing down, a stillness, a waiting for the moment that’s meant for you. It is a space you build with an invisible force that is deeply felt: your breath. This is the container you draw around yourself to release what is holding you back — name it, clear it. You can do that right now.
Whatever is stopping you from being your authentic self — someone with the enriching wealth and well-being that nourishes their inner and outer world — is something that needs to be released. It is a clog in your system that wants out. You know that it has its own unique way of leaving your life, and that is the job you carry through.
This release process is ongoing, just as often as you poop. Let the energy transform as you grow and freely flow with the changes of life. Your breathing and meditative release work — like writing, exercise, house chores, rest, dancing, sports, etc. — is your method for refining the essential energies within you and allowing yourself to cultivate more of what makes you an amazing human being, leaving little to no space for what makes you inefficient.
Building a Breathing Room isn’t so much about actual construction, but a metaphysical embodiment of a personal sanctuary that honours release work — one that taps into the cosmic nature of evolution. A safe space to vent.
This is the den we enter when winter is felt. We ensure that we have the remedies to keep parasites away as we heal, and the intuitive connections to align with the rhythm of nature — knowing when to leave the cave, no matter how dishevelled and bed-headed we feel. It’s in this synchronicity that you attune to a deeper knowing about your life: that your quality of well-being, in all its forms, is the quality of your wealth. And with time, life will meet you at the degree of your care. Give yourself grace. Some things take time.
As you redesign yourself and become the architect of your safe space, you learn to honour something profound: the reclamation of the divine feminine. To give your space a wholistic, centred state for release and renewal is to enter that state of receiving in abundance as well.
What does your Breathing Room look like, feel like? Are you at home with your every breath? Can you give yourself kindness as you grow? Can you see that every little step, little nudge, little care you give your goals, your truth, your life — that love is there to see you through?
Breathe, and make Room.
