Ivan Broad Counselling, EMDR & Breathwork Therapy

05/12/2025

I had forgotten about this podcast I did with Janey Lee Grace. You light remember her as part of the Steve Wright radio show. She now celebrates and advocates for am alcohol free life and invited me to talk about how Breathwork can help with the journey of staying sober.

Breathwork was certainly a key aspect of me stopping all alcohol intake in 2019.

Alcohol Free Life - Janey Lee Grace · Episode

05/12/2025

It is the final breathing circle of the year this Sunday 7th December at Checkley Village hall.

I’m looking forward to facilitating it once again and wonder who will be filling these spaces 😃

30/11/2025

Talking therapy can be part of your therapy journey.
Breathwork can also be part of your therapy journey.
Both valuable, one top down, one a bottom up way of bringing about changes.

21/11/2025

The nice spacious room in Barton where I work Two days per week.

21/11/2025

It can often be the simple things that make the most difference.

The sight of something that makes your heart melt, soften, skip a beat. A smell, a breeze in hot weather or walking into a warm space out of the cold winter day.

I am enjoying the smell of wild orange in my diffuser today as I look out at the frozen grass and bare trees. The contrast can help us appreciate where we are in this moment.

12/11/2025

Breathwork creates space between your thoughts and can bring insights and fragments of lost memory back into your awareness.

I have had this happen many times when breathing consciously with a connected breath. The benefit has been some relief for my nervous system as my mind was able to relax from the tension of not knowing to remembering.

Re-member is a reference to coming back to the body, the body revealed what the mind had lost and the nervous system settled when the mind found what it had been searching for.

To go through a process like this is amazing. To know the mechanics of it is secondary to feeling it all happen.

31/10/2025

I am running my breathing circle this weekend if you feel inspired to join the group. 10am to 12:30pm.

Since practicing and training in Breathwork my energy levels have increased, I lifted out of depression and my capacity and vitality for life have grown immensely.

It has worked wonders for me, maybe it will for you 🙏💜

25/10/2025

The trauma conference in Oxford I attended confirmed the importance of somatic therapy, breathwork and EMDR as methods to work with trauma. All three mean that you don’t have to talk about what happened to you.

All three methods work with the body to help free up any holding from what happened to you.

08/10/2025

Breathwork cleared my back pain and sciatica that I had struggled with for years. I’m so glad a didn’t believe the doctors who told me I would just have to live with the pain. 😃

The body and mind are not seperate and my understanding from my own journey is that pain and restriction are psychological and emotional restrictions that manifest in the structure of the body.

05/10/2025

Being supported is this amazing yurt a couple of weeks ago and today I was supporting others at my breathing circle in a village hall with glitter on the floor from a children’s party the night before.

The more I allow myself to receive support the more support I am able to offer. Today was nourishing, in the giving I received and people found themselves with unexpected experiences.

This is what happens when we let go of our head and let the breath and the body take over, altering perceptions and realisations that we are more than we usually experience.

What is narrow can widen, what is short can lengthen, what is locked down can open up.

The breath is always there waiting to show us new ways of feeling alive. 🙏💜

29/09/2025

Another great day at the trauma conference today. I dropped in on this talk about community as a healing space.

The two speakers were very inspirational and offered some new ways of thinking about healing and thinking about what wellness looks like for you as an individual.

Community vs individual, “on my own I can move fast, together we can move far” was a memorable quote 🙏💜

28/09/2025

A great afternoon spent with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky. Bessel is one of the leading researchers into trauma treatment.

Good to hear him talk about the importance of breathing, body awareness and EMDR. Working in the here and now and not there and then is something he encouraged.

It really made me think about my practice and what I might want to introduce more of and what I could let go of.

I particularly loved the experiential pieces that Licia offered. I felt more connected with the audience because of these.

Looking forward to a good nights sleep ready for more learning tomorrow 😃