Deborah Dickey

11/18/2025

Nancy is a graduate from my school One Breath Institute and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who felt the deeper pull of breathwork. Even with all her clinical training, she could feel something was missing. Watch her 10 minute video to learn more

“After navigating my own trauma and healing, I became a Licensed Mental Health Counselor to help others find their way too. But even with everything I learned, there was still a gap — something more intuitive, body-based, and connected to the breath. When I discovered Introspective Breathwork®… everything finally clicked.”

After navigating my own path through personal trauma and healing, I became a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) to help others find their way too. But e...

11/17/2025

May you begin to truly believe in yourself,wholeheartedly. ❤

11/17/2025

Start living in alignment with yourself. ☀️Comment ALIGN to learn more about my Align Your Life Program - an online 12 week course design to support you undo the conditioning that has kept you not living your fullest life!

11/16/2025

You don’t realize how much the city takes from you until you finally step out of it.

All the noise, the rushing, the constant stimulation 👉🏼it slowly pulls you out of your body. You start living from your head, from survival, from pressure… not from presence.

And over time, that disconnect feels like unhappiness, even if you can’t name it.

Because the truth is, the city trains your nervous system to stay “on.”
Always scanning, always pushing, always doing. You lose the natural rhythm your body was built for.

But when you move to the country or even just spend more time in slower, quieter spaces something shifts instantly.

And you start to remember what it feels like to belong to yourself.

Slowness is medicine.
Nature co-regulates you without you having to earn it.

The trees, the open sky, the silence… they give your system permission to settle. And when your body feels safe, happiness becomes accessible again not in a forced way, but in a real, grounded, everyday way.

Living slowly, being intentional, having space to actually feel your life… that’s where joy returns.

Not because you changed everything, but because you finally created a life your nervous system can breathe in.

Well this was my experience. What’s been yours? 👇🏽

11/13/2025

In Introspective Breathwork® Therapy, we’re not trying to fill space or make things “comfortable.”

We’re guiding people into what’s real for them in that moment.

When someone comes into a session, their body is already speaking. Their breath, their posture, their energy… it’s all telling a story long before their mind puts words to it.

That’s why in IBT, we don’t lean on small talk to spark navigating a session.

👉🏼It can actually pull someone away from themselves and out of the depth their system is ready to access.

Especially if they have people-pleasing tendencies, are always viewed as “the strong one” etc

These sessions are breath-led and somatic for a reason.

We slow down. We notice. We co-regulate.

We connect directly with what’s present, not what’s polite, not what’s expected.

This clip is from one of my facilitator trainings inside the One Breath Method™, where I’m teaching students how to hold space in a way that honors the person’s internal experience rather than distracting from it.

Because when we stay with the truth of the moment, even if it’s quiet or tender, that’s where the real transformation happens.

👉🏼if you’re curious about breathwork training, that is trauma-informed and respects autonomy, check out my school

11/12/2025

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You might call yourself an empath ✨the one who feels everything.

You sense people’s moods before they even speak. You know when something’s off, and your instinct is to fix it, make it better.

That sensitivity isn’t a random skill. It’s a skill your nervous system learned a long time ago.

For many empaths, that deep attunement started in childhood… in homes where emotions were unpredictable, love felt conditional, or peace depended on how well you could manage someone else’s feelings.

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Your body learned to scan for danger, tension, and need before it arrived.

That hyper-awareness ultimately became a way to self-protect.

But as an adult, that same sensitivity can keep you in cycles of overgiving, burnout, and unbalanced relationships. You absorb others’ emotions as your own. You confuse empathy with responsibility. You say yes when your body is begging for no. 👀

Introspective Breathwork® helps you unwind those survival patterns by bringing awareness and breath into the places your body has been holding everyone else’s pain.

Through breath, you begin to separate what’s yours from what’s theirs.

💕You learn to stay connected and compassionate without abandoning yourself.

This is where real empathy becomes healthy, when you can hold space for others and for yourself. When your care comes from overflow, not depletion.

✨When your relationships feel reciprocal, grounded, and safe…because you finally do too.

You don’t have to stop being an empath.
You just get to be one with boundaries and balance.

🦢I believe everyone has sensory gifts. AND there are some of us who experienced childhood trauma and as a result the gifts have kept us small + hidden in relationships instead of confidence + free. This transformation is what I help people do inside my Align Your Life, Amplify Your Light program.

Comment ALIGN if you’d like more info.
👉🏼 Drop some ❤️ for the empaths.

11/11/2025

A must read 🙃

If you wake up tired, feel drained after social interactions, or can’t turn your mind off at night—this isn’t just burnout. It might be energetic overload. Here’s why rest hasn’t been working—

11/11/2025

Life will put you in the same pattern again not to punish you, but because you’re ready to see it differently.

Before, you were just in it.
Now, you notice it.

That alone means something has already shifted.

Awareness is the first break in the cycle.
Even if you still respond the same way sometimes.

If you can see it, you’re not unconscious in it anymore.

And when you practice Introspective Breathwork, that shift happens faster!

Because the breath helps strengthen your mind- body connection creating clear communication channels free from the BIG FEELINGS that keep you in the same ol- same ol situation.

When your mind- body has this safe connection
👉🏼You can pause.
👉🏼You can choose differently.
✨You stop abandoning yourself.

So instead of repeating the cycle for years…
You start to interrupt it in real time.

That is real cycle breaking in action!

You’re not starting over each time.
You’re rising through the spiral. 🌀

Comment ALIGN to learn about my program that supports you break cycles with Introspective Breathwork!

⭐️Check out my school if you’re looking to train in Breathwork and have a business helping people

11/10/2025

You don’t help people by trying to “fix” yourself or “fix” them.

You help people just by being your real, authentic self💕

By showing up as your full self 👉🏼honest, messy, growing, and still figuring it out,you give others permission to do the same.

Healing isn’t another thing to do.
It’s learning to be with yourself… your breath, your body, your truth without trying to change who you are.

When you stop hiding the parts you think are “too much” or “not enough,” your energy shifts.

People can feel you.

They see what it looks like to live free, to be real, to take up space without apology.

That’s what real healing is.
Not a checklist. Not constant self-improvement.
Just being fully you and letting that light naturally move the world around you.

Keep shining your light people! Allow yourself to unmask the BS and just be real so we can all heal from the trauma + conditionings that have kept our light hidden.

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11/10/2025

If you’ve been carrying the weight of your family lineage…

If you have a deep passion to help others, a calling inside you but you feel stuck…

I’ve been there too. And I’m really glad you’re here.

When you’ve spent your whole life putting others first, it’s easy to lose yourself in the process.

The people-pleasing, the overgiving, the self-doubt it all makes sense when your body has been in survival.

👉🏼But alignment changes things.

When you start living in alignment with your truth, confidence stops being something you “try” to have, it just happens.

You feel clearer. More grounded.
Your relationships shift. Your energy shifts. You shift.

I’ve lived this transformation myself.
I went from addiction and toxic patterns 👉🏼 to sobriety, self-trust, and a life built on love, purpose, and authenticity.

Now I help others come home to themselves, too. 🌿

Align Your Life is my 12-week breath + somatic healing program where we intentionally unwind the emotional and nervous system patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of self-sacrifice.

Inside the program, we move through nine layers of healing:
✨Cleansing your energy
✨Reclaiming where your energy goes
✨Regulating your nervous system
✨Uncovering inherited beliefs
✨Rebuilding self-trust and inner guidance
✨Activating your personal power
✨Setting boundaries without guilt
✨Reclaiming confidence + self-expression
✨Living your life from who you really are

You’ll receive:
✔️Weekly live breath + somatic healing sessions
✔️Guided journal + reflection prompts
✔️A private community where you’re actually understood
✔️On-demand practice library
✔️Lifetime access + free re-join for future cohorts

This isn’t about “fixing yourself.”

This is about remembering who you are and learning how to confidently, clearly live your life and finally have the healthy, connected relationships you deserve.

If your body is saying yes — trust that and join me JANUARY 2026⭐️ limited spots available!

Comment ALIGN and I’ll send you all the details. 💛🌿✨