What Health Coaches Need to Know about Breathing Efficiency with Dr Louise Oliver | HCA Talks Health

About this episode

Dr Louise Oliver discusses the impact of breathing efficiency on wellbeing and shares her personal journey of transformation.

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Louise Oliver, an NHS GP, Functional Breathing Practitioner and therapeutic Life Coach, to talk about the profound impact of breathing efficiency on our physical and mental wellbeing. Louise shares her personal journey of how correcting her own breathing patterns resolved her snoring, transformed her sleep and increased her capacity to handle stress. She explains that many of us have lost the ability to breathe "as nature intended" due to modern lifestyles,...

People in this episode

Host: Zena Le Roux

Guest: Dr Louise Oliver

Topics covered

• breathing efficiency
• physical wellbeing
• mental wellbeing
• health coaching
• stress management

Keywords

• breathing
• health coaches
• wellbeing
• stress
• sleep
• snoring
• modern lifestyles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NHS, Functional Breathing Practitioner, therapeutic Life Coach

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