In this spontaneous, open conversation on this is emotionart, host Michael Avery sits with Cindee Brown-Mills... keynote speaker at the Oregon Business Conference, Navy veteran, former corporate CFO, and founder of Breathe Alaska... for a heart-opening exploration of what happens when the ladder you’ve been climbing finally breaks you.

Cindee shares the moment she hit rock bottom: sitting on her kitchen floor, exhausted from decades of high-stakes finance roles, people-pleasing, and unexpressed grief, realizing she could no longer “tough it out.” And then a single online breathwork class cracked open decades of stored trauma, generational pain, and the constant sympathetic nervous system overload so many of us live in without even naming it.

Breath is the only body system we can consciously control, it works like a remote con ...