Before You Send That Text: Breathwork and Meditation During Divorce with Amy Wilson

About this episode

The episode discusses practical ways to manage stress during divorce through breathwork and meditation.

Divorce and family conflict can push people into survival mode. A text message, tense conversation, or co-parenting issue can quickly trigger stress that makes it hard to think clearly or respond calmly. In this episode, divorce attorney Craig Robertson and R+E client advocate, former client, and meditation practitioner Mac Chaney are joined by yoga and meditation teacher Amy Wilson to discuss practical ways to calm the nervous system and create space between what happens and how you respond. Amy teaches at Glow Yoga Studio in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and has more than 900 hours of training in Vinyasa and Hatha yoga, including study with Sri Dharma Mittra at Dharma Yoga in New York City and immersive meditation training with Hridaya Yoga in France and Mexico. Together they explore how stress affects the body during divorce, why breathwork can shift you out of fight-or-flight, and how meditation helps develop the pause between stimulus and response. Amy also introduces the yogic concept of the koshas, the idea that we are layered beings—body, breath, mind, and deeper awareness—and explains how working with the breath can help move us out of reactivity and back into clarity. The…

People in this episode

Host: Craig Robertson

Guests: Mac Chaney, Amy Wilson

Topics covered

• divorce
• meditation
• breathwork
• stress management
• co-parenting
• yoga

Keywords

• divorce
• breathwork
• meditation
• stress
• co-parenting
• yoga
• nervous system
• emotional intensity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Glow Yoga Studio, Dharma Yoga, Hridaya Yoga

Places: Gulf Shores, Alabama, New York City, France, Mexico

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