I Didn’t Know I Was Stopping My Own Breath—Until Someone Told Me

One time I shared a room with my daughter. The next morning she told me something that shook me:

“Mum… you snore. And you stop breathing sometimes.”

Excuse me?

Later she gave me some nasal strips—like the ones Alex Hormozi wears. I’d assumed they were part of his branding. Apparently not.

The first time I wore them, they fell off in my sleep. The second time, I applied them properly. And suddenly I was breathing like a new person. Air. Oxygen. Calm.

It made me wonder: How many other things have I normalised that are actually hurting me?

I’d been living with subpar breathing and calling it “just how I sleep.” And it wasn’t.

Just like I used to call constant bloating “just stress.” Or fatigue “just age.”

Turns out, the problem isn’t always dramatic. It’s the quiet ways your body adjusts—and how long it takes you to realise something’s wrong.

What I learned:

• Listen to people who love you. Especially when they tell you something you don’t want to hear.

• Your body knows. You just forgot how to listen.

• Breathing properly isn’t a luxury. It’s life.

I share this not as a health expert, but as someone who’s learning to stop ignoring their own warning signs.

Here’s to breathing better—literally and figuratively.

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🌬️ Try this:

Tonight before bed, notice how you’re breathing. Shallow? Deep? Nose or mouth?

What might change if you took that as information, not judgment?