Everything is the Best HOW TO CRY with MJ Renshaw
Nov 5, 2025
MJ Renshaw, founder of The Being Method and author of How to Cry, dives deep into breathwork’s role in healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. She discusses how unprocessed emotions affect the body and shares insights from her journey through grief and motherhood. MJ emphasizes the importance of emotional availability in parenting and offers practical tools for reconnecting with joy and play. With a unique blend of science and spirituality, she explores intuition in children and the health risks of emotional suppression.
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Train With Short Breath Holds
- Do practice simple breath holds during daily activities to lower anxiety and train CO2 tolerance.
- Wait 10 seconds after a small inhale, then hold again to gradually increase your BOLT score.
Check Your BOLT Score
- Test your baseline with the BOLT score by exhaling and timing a comfortable breath hold.
- If you score below ~20 seconds, incorporate breath-hold practice daily to reduce hyperventilation-driven anxiety.
Breath As Nervous System Remote
- Use breath as the remote control of your nervous system to shift between fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest.
- Breath practices give immediate agency over your physiological reaction to stress.
