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Beyond “Just Breathing” | How Facilitated Breathwork Rewires Your Life (Feat. Jana McKinney)

Release Date: 10/15/2025

Why You’re Crushing It at Work but Losing Your Relationship

Unblock Your BS

You’re successful… so why is your relationship falling apart? If you feel respected, valued, and confident in your career but disconnected, criticized, or unwanted at home… This episode will explain why. Inside this conversation, we break down the real root of “roommate marriages”, and why traditional advice doesn’t work What You’ll Learn: Why your brain is wired to chase achievement over connection How dopamine addiction keeps you focused on work instead of your relationship The hidden reason presence and emotional intimacy feel uncomfortable Why you feel like you’re...

She Said "I'm Done"… 3 Months Later, He Became a Different Man

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She said she was done. No real explanation. Just "I'm unhappy." And everything Skippy thought was stable... wasn't. In this episode, Tara sits down with Healthy Men-tality member Skippy to talk through what the early stages of separation actually looked like, and how he went from full panic mode to something he hadn't felt in years: clarity. In this episode: Why trying harder often makes things worse The 30-day no-emotional-pressure reset and what it actually did How nervous system regulation stopped the spiral The childhood patterns that quietly wreck adult relationships What it...

From the ER to Breath Work: What Unprocessed Grief Does to a Man's Body

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There’s a moment when everything you thought was stable… isn’t. Not slowly. Not with warning. Just… gone! That’s where this conversation starts. Bill was married for 16 years. He thought they had normal problems. Manageable ones. Then one conversation changed everything. His wife asked for a divorce… and he found out she had already moved on. In this episode of Unblock Your BS, I sit down with listener Bill as he navigates the raw, real aftermath of being blindsided. This isn’t a polished success story. This is what healing actually looks like in real time. Inside this...

Why She Sends TikToks Instead of Talking

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If your partner is constantly sending you relationship content… and your first instinct is to feel annoyed, confused, or defensive… This episode is going to challenge that. Because what looks like a “TikTok problem”… is usually a communication and emotional safety problem. Inside this solo episode, we break down what’s actually happening when someone avoids direct communication, and how your response might be reinforcing the very cycle you’re frustrated with. In this episode, we cover: Why sending TikToks is often a safer form of communication How social media algorithms...

Men Don't Have to Get Screwed in Divorce (Here's the Playbook)

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Most people don’t go into marriage expecting it to end. And when it does… they don’t have a roadmap. If you're a man facing divorce, you’ve probably heard the same story on repeat: You’ll lose your money. You’ll lose your kids. The system is rigged against you. But what if most of that is just noise? In this episode of Unblock Your BS, I sit down with Joe Dillon, co-founder of Equitable Mediation Services, to break down what actually happens in divorce, and how to navigate it without destroying your finances, your relationship with your kids, or yourself. Joe has spent 17+ years...

From Affairs + Escapism to Healing: Coleman’s Nervous System Comeback

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At 25, Coleman was cheating on his wife, chronically lying, and living in constant fight-or-flight. He didn’t just lose his marriage. He realized he didn’t like who he had become. This episode is the raw, unfiltered story of what it actually takes to change, not through mindset hacks, but through nervous system healing. From rock bottom… to somatic work, subconscious reprogramming, breathwork, and rebuilding emotional integrity. Today, Coleman helps women regulate their nervous systems, and teaches men how to create emotional safety instead of control. This conversation goes...

I Lost My Marriage… and Found Myself

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Some moments in life split your story into two chapters: Before. And after. For Charlie, that moment happened the night he discovered his wife was having an affair. After 15 years together, his marriage collapsed overnight. His nervous system spiraled. His identity shattered. And he found himself sitting in his car wondering how his life had fallen apart so quickly. But that breakdown became the beginning of something unexpected. In this episode, Charlie shares the real story behind his healing journey inside the Healthy Men-tality program, from emotional shutdown and codependency to learning...

Rebuilding Trust With Yourself After Cheating, Divorce, or Betrayal

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Heartbreak has a way of exposing patterns we didn’t even realize we were living inside of. In this episode, Tara sits down with heartbreak and relationship coach Erica Wright to unpack the deeper dynamics that show up in relationships, especially after betrayal, divorce, or emotional disconnection. The conversation explores how codependency develops, why people often ignore their intuition in relationships, and what it actually takes to rebuild trust with yourself after a painful breakup. Erica shares how she helps clients heal using parts work and inner child work, explaining how the...

Navigating Post-Divorce Grief

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Divorce is messy. It’s grief. It's a relief. It’s rage. It’s freedom. Sometimes all in the same week. In this solo episode, I break down what really happens after divorce, especially for the men I work with inside Healthy Men-tality. The bitterness. The bargaining. The shame spiral. The temptation to jump into something new just to avoid being alone. And here’s the bold truth: Dating while you’re still legally or emotionally tied to someone else often isn’t healing… it’s avoidance. We talk about: The 5 stages of grief in divorce (even when you initiated it) Why second...

Reigniting Desire: From Roommate Marriage to Real Intimacy with Dan Purcell

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You’re good teammates.Good parents. But behind closed doors?Something’s missing. The spark.The fire.The “I can’t wait to touch you” energy. Most couples don’t talk about sex or nobody knows how to actually talk about it. In this episode, I sit down with sex and intimacy coach Dan Purcell to talk about what’s really underneath the roommate marriage phase and why trying to “get more sex” is often the exact thing killing desire. We unpack: Why desire discrepancy is so common (and what it actually means) The “sweatpants phase” and how polarity shifts over time How...

More Episodes

Today I’m joined by Jana McKinney, CEO & Founder of Get Living Breathwork, to unpack why facilitated breathwork can shift you faster and deeper than years of white-knuckling or logic-only therapy. We get into the physiology (vagus nerve, diaphragmatic breathing, nitric oxide), the three layers of breathwork (awareness, daily regulation, journey work), and how journey-style sessions surface and release stored survival energy so you stop repeating the same emotional cycles.

We also talk skeptics, safety, and how breathwork + therapy together becomes rocket fuel for growth. If you’ve ever wondered whether breathwork is “just woo,” this one bridges science and lived results—beautifully.

What You’ll Learn

Why belly/diaphragmatic breathing instantly tones the vagus nerve
How “over-breathing” keeps you anxious and the 5 breaths/min fix
The 3 types of breathwork: awareness, daily protocols (e.g., box breathing), and journeys
What happens in a journey: stress → parasympathetic rebound, endogenous DMT release, memory reconsolidation, and somatic discharge
Why gentle vs. intense protocols unlock different layers of healing
How co-regulation & mirror neurons ripple healing through families
A practical frame to combine therapy + breathwork for faster change

Interested in Nervous System Regulation tools? Join Coach Tara’s healing community to do a breathwork session today + learn more nervous system healing tools: unblockyourbs.com/saa

Men on a Healing Journey - Ready to regulate, lead, and stop repeating patterns: Join Healthy Men-tality Learn More and apply to join me inside of our 12 week group program just for men called Healthy Men-tality: unblockyourbs.com/healthymen

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