Briellen McAlpine Breathwork · Healing

20/11/2025

sometimes

SOMETIMES

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,

who could cross
a shimmering bed
of leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening
requests,

conceived out
of nowhere
but in this place
beginning
to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.

…

SOMETIMES
In ‘David Whyte : Essentials’
Many Rivers Press. January 2020

…

An early morning chatty drive through the Cotswolds had my companion and I suddenly plunged into silence as we found ourselves on a narrow, twisting road through woodland: all shrouded with a poignant, pervasive and sun saturated mist. I pulled over without a word and in a quiet and mutual understanding, we both got out of the vehicle and walked in opposite directions into the woods. Far into those woods I found myself reciting this piece and then stopping in some wonder to take this photo. Questions that had no right to go away, were inviting me deeper and deeper into the quiet presence of that morning and if I remember, a certain crucial decision that I then resolved about my future.. 'Sometimes'... DW
..

Mist in Buckholt Wood.
Photo © David Whyte.
Cotswolds. September 13th 2013

15/11/2025

Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

11/11/2025

An improptu photo shoot out at the Li'l Breathing House this morning.. a stroll across the grass and our mother rock (the huge one that we live upon - in our house, with a f*& huge rock beneath us) and there she is - cute, cosy, bathed in nature...

21/10/2025

17/10/2025

This week I have had a couple of clients chat with me about fear.

The fear of leaving.

For both of them, leaving their jobs, or not leaving them, or not just yet, or what’s the best way?

These are really hard decisions to make, and a very important thing to realise when we face a choice of such magnitude is that it doesn’t really matter what you choose.

It doesn’t really matter which path you take.

The best way, is the way that you choose.

When we choose, we start to move energy. We might realise we don’t want to quit yet. Great! Get back in there!
We might realise the things we are really afraid of - not being supported is usually the crux in one of many forms - people will think I’m an idiot, I’ll run out of money, I’m a loser if I don’t have a job…. and so on
Who or what are you trying to please or appease??

Fear = Future Expectations Appearing Real

Cute, sure, but also pretty true a lot of the time (tigers in the grass excepted).

You’ve got yourself this far. You have supported yourself this far (even if it was messy), and your support of yourself is the key - making a choice turns that key, so to speak.

one path will be longer

one will be shorter

one choice will be easier

one will be more harrowing.

one will bring more ease

one more challenge

and it may not be in the obvious ways, or the ways you expect. What looks good or easy up front may not pan out the way you expect or hope. That means time for new choices!

And you wont know until you make a choice and take a step.

Stay in the job/relationship/city that is killing you slowly (or at any speed…) as it bleeds your soul dry.

At some point something will happen - you will get fired, the company will collapse, the economy will fry, your body will manifest disease - migraine, flu, metabolic issues, cancer, the list goes one when cortisol is driving you.

If you are like Nat you will break your ankle to get out of selling insurance, if you are like me you will fire yourself (yes, I have done that)...

more below or
read on in my latest blog
https://www.briellenmcalpine.com/blog/2025/10/17/the-other-side-of-fear

07/10/2025

love is the thing, if there is a thing… 💚

04/10/2025

we are humans
we are earthlings
we belong here

beyond what you have been taught
or told
we can benefit this wonderful planet earth
just as she loves and supports us
we are love
we belong here

30/08/2025

Not easy times to be on this planet for many of us, but there are options that can support you - which is why we have started Radical (Self Care) Sundays, not just for you, but also so we can connect with like minded people in the spirit of community - humans need connection, and real in life connection.

Community is something we see as becoming more and more essential as we navigate the shifting tides of life on planet earth.

We also connect here, as part of our own self care 💚

Seed positive planetary change. Establish universal light transmission in this reality. Hear my personal message in response to the current world situation and find the answers to your questions.

20/08/2025

we dont live in the times we were born in…
what is the flavour of your now??

There are no more words to say, no more carrots to chase, no more lines in the dirt to cross. There are no more predictions, speculations, or projections to help us understand what the future will be, because the future is already here.

I remember decades ago, during my first dark night of the soul and my first rebirth in this life, I was obsessed with searching for something I knew was missing. My entire being was invested in this search for something I did not understand. I changed my lifestyle radically, and I cleaned up my life in ways that I didn’t even know were lifestyle options, in an effort to reach what I was looking for. It was my evolving out of the past. I was finding my true self and my true freedom of being human. I didn’t know what I was missing; I only knew that I was.

Then, like many of us, I began to remember my ancient backstory. I started to remember all the bits and pieces of ancient memory and wisdom, like where I came from, where I had been, and what I had learned. It was like getting a new life as I emerged from an old life I was so ill-suited for.

But these are the days when I no longer feel the obsession to search. I work simply to ensure I am in the right places at the right times. But nothing is missing within me anymore. I have completed collecting my fragmented self that was ripped apart because of a multitude of things this world does to a newly arriving soul, like a unsafe childhood, a bad relationship etc… where our true self never had a safe place to grow and blossom, to be seen, heard, or honored. I also remembered the relevant connecting threads of my past lives to assemble a bigger picture of my new wholeness that has always been with me. Nothing was ever lost.

Now, I am simply waiting. My soul is holding its breath. I can feel the new world arriving. There is no need to chase a destination, as I thought before. The new world is coming. I am only now waiting for its arrival, and I can feel it is close. I feel that butterfly excitement feeling in my chest that says it is so close it could arrive in my next breath.

So what do we do now that we have arrived?

All the nonsense in the world, the chaos makers, the abusers, the liars, and game players who lack integrity, and those who do not honor the sacred, I stand back and witness as it all slowly becomes a fading dream, a faux reality that is losing its way. We must all heal our addiction to chaos and drama and heal to enter this new world. This is easier said than done because we have mistaken chaos for passion, and trauma bonds as connection.

I feel I am holding my ground as I wait for the arrival of a new world. There are no more destinations within me to search for, only the now. I honor and respect my energy and spend it only in the places and areas of life where I am called to do so. I only give of my energy where it is honored and where it becomes useful. There is very little I want to involve myself with in the world anymore, just the sacred land under my feet that is tied to the stars and those who are walking in the same way.

I feel like I am slipping into our new world, not with a solar flash or epic event in time as before, just a gentle arrival into what I came here for in the first place.

And I wonder how many are feeling this too.

We have planned a gentle rebirth into this new world. We are entering into it with grace and ease and without trauma and chaos. We will enter this world where our souls will be honored, respected, loved, and cherished, not molded against our natural born divinity to fit into a robot-like society. This gentle rebirth is how a soul is intended to enter a new life, or a new cycle of reality. Life will be honored, and each path will be considered sacred.

I am waiting for all this. We are ready. We have nothing left to chase. We cannot force our arrival; we can only allow it to arrive. We only need to take another peaceful step in the direction of our hearts' calling and within the timing of our souls.

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09/08/2025

For those of you who joined us on our latest group Breath Restoration session where we focused on our pineal gland/third eye and direct communicator with our sun, here is some great data on how to clear some of the damage living in this 'modern' world has done to this vital life center .....https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-stone-in-your-brain-how-modern

23/07/2025

do the thing

Tragic this young bard, Andrea Gibson, had to die—just 4 days ago—for me to discover this work. RIP, sing with the angels