Rachel Harveland - Somatic Breathwork Practitioner

12/23/2025

The 10th day of wellness is from Rachel Harveland - Somatic Breathwork Practitioner✨✨✨

Make nervous system healing a priority. ♥️ When I tend to my nervous system through herbal remedies and somatic breathwork, my capacity for life is much bigger. My mind is kinder, I'm a more present mother and partner, and I can handle the demands of life without feeling burnt out or overstimulated.

I have been really feeling this! What are you doing to take care of your nervous system? ✨✨✨

12/23/2025

I asked chat what things I think about or reflect on the most… ✨

12/19/2025

Three things that are true for me right now:

✨I’m more tired than I admit
✨I crave more quiet than answers
✨I’m learning not to rush clarity

I’m a mom, a partner, a business owner with a 9-5, and it’s straight chaos almost every day.

But I’m learning about my own capacity, how to care for myself when I’m doing too much, and how to create a life that lets me do the things that fill me up the most. I don’t get it right all the time and that’s okay.

But the tools I have to care for my nervous system are the key to bringing me back to my body 🙌🏻✨

12/17/2025

For the moms 💞

After my recent music releases, a few friends said to me, “Wow… you must have been so busy recording new music with a newborn.” I laughed. All of the music I’m releasing now was recorded before I gave birth. The image of me carrying on in full creative flow with two young children, one only seven months old, felt so far from my reality that something in me needed to liberate myself from that pressure and expectation of that picture.

I am running on very little sleep. When I manage to brush my hair or have a bath, I feel genuinely pleased with myself. With two children, I am deeply in the service of mothering. It is all-consuming.

With my first child, there were more moments to sing, to write, to sit and listen. With my second, I haven’t touched my guitar in seven months. My songs come as small fragments while I walk my baby to sleep, and then they disappear again. My altar is dusty and rarely tended.
My living altar is here — in the milk, the nappies, the dishes, the Lego cars.

When people ask me how I am, I sometimes don’t know how to answer. I feel as though I’ve left myself somewhere in the woods, trusting I will come back for myself soon.
Floating, content, tender, grateful, sleep-deprived.
I am not a “superwoman” right now, and naming this feels like a relief.

It can be so easy, as mothers, to believe that everyone else is so gracefully managing, creating, working, caring for themselves, doing it all — and that somehow I am the only one who is overwhelmed.

Right now, I can’t be the medicine of “look at me doing it all.” But I can be the medicine of honesty. Of naming what this season truly is. Of recognising and honouring mothers / ourselves for the immensity of what we are holding.

Mothering is a vast act of creation in itself, and yet it is so often unseen, undervalued, and taken for granted.

I fully trust that I will return to my music, no doubt at all in this… and when I do, I will return changed, widened, and deepened by this time.

For now, this is the song I am singing: the prayer of tending my children.
The quiet song and the fierce, sacred work of mothering.

❤️

12/15/2025

How kind is that voice in your head? 🙏🏻✨

The voice in my head this past January was still playing the victim. That voice told me that I wasn’t good enough, something was wrong with me, and that I had to do everything on my own because I couldn’t depend on others….

But through breathwork, I was able to see WHY I thought those things and where those thoughts were coming from and completely shift my thoughts from then moving forward. And my life has dramatically changed as a result from just one year ago.

Breathwork allows us to work on our thoughts from a subconscious perspective. We have the opportunity to literally rewire our brains and create new neural pathways with new, kinder thoughts.

What does your inner dialogue say to you when you mess up? No judgement. Share in the comments if you’re feeling brave & let others know they’re not alone 🌸✨

12/13/2025

Psychedelics & Somatic Breathwork can have the same affect on your brain and nervous system and because of the state of consciousness you enter through either modality, it’s best (and you go deeper) when you have a guide there to hold the space for you.

One of the best things I was taught in training is that the person in front of you that you’re holding space for can feel when you’ve checked out, think of something else, or aren’t tuned into them fully. And it’s 100% true. When I’m breathing and someone is guiding me, I can feel their presence and I can feel when they’re distracted. And I hold back when they are.

Holding space is sacred work.

I’ve had some of my biggest openings when I could feel the loving support of the person holding the space for me. They didn’t have to be right next to me, they didn’t have to be touching me, they just had to energetically be “holding” me through the practice.

Breathwork can get intense. So make sure you’re fully supported when you’re doing your breathwork practice and choose someone you vibe with 🙏🏻

12/12/2025

What if you didn’t have to feel your ‘negative’ feelings?

What if someone came up with some way that you didn’t have to feel heartbreak, grief, rejection, unworthiness, sadness…

Would you do it?

When I think about it this way, it shifts my perspective. Feeling is what makes us human. It’s what makes us alive.

And the more I open myself up to feel these ‘negative’ emotions, I find that I can only let myself sink into the feeling so much before it starts to dissipate, and I find that I’ve pushed my emotional boundaries to be able to also feel more of the ‘positive.’

Would you rather feel your emotions fully or not at all? Share in the comments, let’s get a conversation going ✨✨✨

12/11/2025

There’s this one moment in breathwork I’ve been seeing a lot lately and it feels so special to witness. I’ll try my best to articulate it…

It’s this moment where the person in front of me breaks down crying.
But not because they’re in pain… although there are plenty of moments like that as well. It’s more of a remembering.

It’s like they’ve been going through life doing all the things they need to do, feeling okay or maybe even good, just being a normal human…

And then they get to this state of consciousness where they can feel the totality of their energy, their spirit, and they start to remember what/who they really are. And they crack open. And this breaking down feeling is almost like “oh my god I forgot, I forgot who I am, I forgot that I am love, I forgot that we’re all connected…”

Their ego desolves before my eyes and they’re fully open to what is. I know this feeling because I’ve felt it again and again and again.

Always forgetting, and then always remembering…

But the remembering is the most raw and simultaneously beautiful feeling and it’s one of the reasons I’m so passionate about breathwork.

What if we got to a place of such safety in our bodies that we remembered all the time? What arguments, wars would be nonexistent? What beautiful things would we create?

Drop a ♥️ in the comments if you’ve felt this feeling too in breathwork ✨