join the gentle breath
make a little space to exhale each sunday
The Gentle Breath is a weekly newsletter for anyone seeking rest, healing, and relief from burnout. Receive thoughtful reflections, grounding breathwork, inspiring affirmations, and gentle support for the week ahead, delivered right to your inbox.
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The Gentle Breath was created for the moments when you are tired of pushing, performing, and treating rest as something you have to earn.
Each Sunday you’re offered a quiet pause: a chance to reconnect with yourself, tend to your inner life, and begin the week from a place of greater ease and intention.
This is not another list of things you need to fix, complete, or become. It is an invitation to breathe, reflect, and connect with what you need before the week begins.
inside each edition of
the gentle breath
Honest, compassionate thoughts about rest, healing, self-love, emotional wellbeing, and curating a soft, centered, serene life.
a thoughtful reflection
an inspiring affirmation
Words to carry with you throughout the week as reminders of your worth, wholeness, and right to rest.
supportive conversation
resources, encouragement, inspiration, and invitations to take time and make space to exhale.
grounding breathwork
A breathing practice to help you pause, calm your nervous system, and return to center.
the sunday salutation
A prayer to connect you to spirit and your higher self.
a mindful reflection
a journal prompt or thoughtful question to help you reconnect with what you need.
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Subscribers receive each new edition on Sundays, while its reflections and practices are still timely for the week ahead.
Public editions are added to the archive approximately 30 days later.
That means the newest reflections, breathwork, affirmations, and invitations arrive when they are intended: at the beginning of the week, directly in your inbox.
You can read each edition of The Gentle Breath in its intended moment, then return to it whenever you need rest, grounding, or reassurance.
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a note from Lisa
I’m Lisa Hurley, author of Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life, founder of The Great Exhale, and host and executive producer of Space To Exhale: The Podcast.
My work explores rest, healing, burnout recovery, emotional wellbeing, and what it means to create a softer, more sustainable life within systems that constantly ask us to push beyond our limits.
I created The Gentle Breath as a quiet, consistent practice of care for Black women, and for anyone who is ready to say no to hustle culture and yes to a life of ease.
Each Sunday, I offer a little space to pause, reconnect, and exhale. I hope you’ll join me and all the other souls who believe that rest is the new success.
make your sundays a little bit softer
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New editions arrive every Sunday, before they appear in the public archive.