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The Breath Geek, Walnut Creek, CA (2025)

11/16/2025

In 1995, Elizabeth Loftus ran a now-famous experiment:
Loftus, E. F., & Pickrell, J. E. (1995). The Formation of False Memories. Psychiatric Annals, 25(12), 720–725.
Participants were told four childhood stories — three real, one fake.
The fake?
That they’d been lost in a shopping mall at age five, cried, and were rescued by a stranger.
💥 25% remembered it — vividly.
This wasn’t acting. Their nervous systems responded as if it were real.
The lesson: memory is shockingly easy to distort.
Now apply that to therapy — where tools like:
✨ Guided imagery
🌀 Hypnosis
👶 Inner child regressions
🔮 Past life recall
… encourage people to trust whatever “comes up.”
If we’re not careful, we’re healing from traumas that might not be ours, or might never have happened at all.
The body doesn’t need a story to heal — it needs a release.
👇 Comment CLEAR if you’re ready for trauma healing that’s grounded in reality.

11/15/2025

Therapy culture is running wild and it's causing a lot of problems.
Therapy use has more than tripled in the last two decades.
Family estrangement has gone up right alongside it.
Coincidence? Or something deeper?

A 2025 study by Lawrence Patitis et al from Portsmouth University shows that the longer people are in therapy, the more negatively they remember their childhood.
And suddenly, the parent who tried their best becomes “toxic.”
The sibling becomes “unsafe.”
And the therapist says… set a boundary.
I am not saying all estrangement is unjustified.
But if therapy is pushing people to rewrite the past, we have to ask:
How is that working out for us?
👇 Let’s talk in the comments.
Have you seen this happen?
Yes this a repost but this a problem that needs more attention.
Since posting this RUNGA radio has released a podcast with the author of the study Lawrence Patihis.

11/15/2025

The conversation has to change.
🧠 A major study from the University of Manchester (2024) found that 91% of middle-aged men who died by su***de had accessed mental or behavioral health services in the 12 months prior.
[“Suicide by Middle-Aged Men: A National Study”, ncish.manchester.ac.uk]

📉 Another study by Seidler et al. (2021, American Journal of Men’s Health) found 46% of men drop out of therapy.
[“Men’s Dropout From Mental Health Services”, Sage Journals]

So maybe the issue isn’t that men don’t want help.
It’s that the help they’re offered isn’t actually helping.

Instead of being met with strength-based strategies,
many men are pushed into frameworks that feel disconnected, disempowering, and misaligned.

This isn’t about blaming therapists.
It’s about rethinking a model that’s quietly not working.

Drop a 💬 if this hits.
Or tag someone who’s been saying this for years.

11/12/2025

Not all estrangement is trauma-informed. Some of it’s TikTok-informed.
Reczek (2025) introduced the idea of democratized kinship — a cultural shift where family isn’t fixed, but conditional.

It sounds empowering… until you realise it can justify blocking your dad because he didn’t text you the “right” way.
And is it any wonder mental health is worse than ever?
Strong family bonds are one of the biggest predictors of emotional wellbeing.
In fact, research by Holt-Lunstad et al. (2010, PLoS Medicine) showed that lack of social connection is as harmful to health as smoking 15 ci******es a day.

When family gets replaced with followers, and forgiveness gets replaced with boundaries — we lose resilience.
🧠 It’s time to stop scripting disconnection as healing.
📚 SOURCES:
– Reczek, R. (2025). Mapping the cultural repertoires of family estrangement: A new theory of democratized kinship. Social Problems, spaf026.
– Holt-Lunstad, J. et al. (2010). Social relationships and mortality risk: A meta-analytic review. PLoS Medicine.

11/11/2025

This page started with breathwork… but it turned into something bigger.

A rebellion against the over-therapised, over-diagnosed, and still suffering world we live in.
It’s part science, part story, part calling-out-the-BS—especially the kind that breaks families apart in the name of healing.

If you’re new here, this is what I’m about.
If you’ve been here since the start—through the rough drafts and bad takes—thank you.
Special thanks to the legends who call out the copycats and keep the energy strong.
isn’t just a tag. It’s the backbone.

Let’s keep building a mental health culture that actually works.
Rooted in breath. Nervous system repair.
And calling out what’s actually hurting people—even when it’s uncomfortable.

11/11/2025

🧠 Scientists may have found evidence of the soul.

📊 In 2025, Dr. Stuart Hameroff monitored 7 patients at the moment of death and recorded a burst of gamma synchrony — brain activity usually linked to conscious thought — up to 90 seconds after clinical death (Economic Times, Apr 2025
economictimes.indiatimes.com
).
📊 In 2014, Eyerman found nearly 80% of people practicing Conscious Connected Breathwork reported a mystical experience.
📊 Breathwork alters brain chemistry and induces the same kinds of altered states reported in near-death experiences.

For thousands of years, humans have used breath and meditation to explore these states.
Now? Science is finally catching up — and maybe proving why it works.

11/10/2025

Between 2023–2025, studies by Forest Romm & Kevin Waldman (Northwestern & UMichigan) uncovered a chilling truth:
88% of students fake progressive views to fit in socially or academically.

78% self-censor on gender identity; 72% on politics; 68% on family values.

80%+ lie in classwork to align with professors.

73% hide beliefs from friends; nearly half do so in relationships.

Even though 77% disagree with the notion that gender identity should override biological s*x, they’d never speak up.

Beyond that, the Mental Health Foundation reports that nearly 9 in 10 young people feel lonely “often” or “always.” (MH Foundation Loneliness Briefing) And social media isn’t helping—they often fuel both loneliness and ideological echo chambers.
And yes - social media is also contributing to this loneliness epidemic

11/09/2025

A new randomized control trial confirms it—Alternate Nostril Breathing can reduce migraine severity and frequency by calming the nervous system and improving oxygen flow. While more research is needed, this is a promising non-invasive tool for migraine sufferers.
In Sanskrit, it's known as nadi shodhana pranayama. This translates as “subtle energy clearing breathing technique.”
You use finger and thumb to press on one nostril as you breathe in through the other. Then swap fingers, and breath out through the other side.

Try it and take control of your migraines!
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11/08/2025

A new study found that 44.8% of men drop out of therapy. And when you add in relapse and low success rates, the true effectiveness of therapy for anxiety drops to just 13.8%. Men aren’t broken.
But maybe the system isn’t built for them.

We need better tools—and that starts with understanding the problem.
👇 Drop a “YES” if you’ve ever dropped out of therapy. Or a “NO” if you had a better experience. I’d love to hear your story. And to the guys watching this: you don’t need to be more like women to heal. You just need a different path.

11/07/2025

A woman in Poland, Julia Wandelt, is now in court after claiming she’s Madeleine McCann,
the British girl who vanished in 2007.

She says hypnosis “helped her remember” being abducted —
but investigators say none of it matches reality.
She’s even been accused of stalking the McCanns.
This isn’t just one case — it’s a symptom of therapy culture gone too far.

For decades, therapists have encouraged clients to “recover” buried memories,
but decades of research — from Elizabeth Loftus (1995, 2003) —
shows that suggestion can create false memories as vivid as real ones.

When therapy turns memory into gospel,
we stop asking what’s true
and start believing what just feels true.
📚 Sources:
The Guardian, Oct 2025 – coverage of Julia Wandelt’s court case

Reuters, Oct 2025 – McCann family testimony

Loftus, E. (1995). The Reality of Repressed Memories. American Psychologist

Loftus, E. (2003). Our Changeable Memories: Legal and Practical Implications. Nature Reviews Neuroscience

11/06/2025

What if we built the entire mental health system around the wrong guy?
Freud’s model made us look back. Adler’s would’ve helped us move forward.
We chose endless analysis over action.
Wounds over wisdom.
And now? We have a mental health crisis.
Let’s rethink the foundation.

👇 Drop a 💭 if you’ve ever felt stuck in self-analysis instead of healing.
Or comment “Adler” if you’re ready for forward-thinking mental health.
Yes - this is a repost. And yes I am the original creator of this idea. And yes those other people who have done similar versions of it did copy me. Check the date of the post pinned to my profile and the date of the copy you saw if you don't believe me.

11/05/2025

I’m beyond proud to share that my first academic paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders (Impact Factor: 6.6). This is the highest rated journal that any CCB intervention has been published in.

It’s the largest randomized controlled trial to date on anxiety and Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB):
✅ 108 participants
✅ Online breathwork sessions led by me & Natalia
✅ Waitlist control group
✅ Complete remission of anxiety on the Zung Scale
✅ Large and statistically significant effect size

For context: most CBT studies show small effects —
but this shows that breathwork can meaningfully transform anxiety and mental health.

This project has been five years in the making,
and I’m so proud to give back to the breathwork community that changed my life.
📘 You can read the paper here - or by going to my link in bio
👉 https://vist.ly/4czvp

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