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50: Tracy Breathnach - The Soul Path

Season 4, Ep. 50

Dr Tracy Breathnach is an Irish author, speaker and somatic performance artist, based in the UK, exploring heart-centred living and loving. The main themes of her work are intimacy, authenticity and aliveness. She has worked extensively across arts, community and education settings, primarily in the UK for over 25 years, as well as now offering transformational coaching and mentoring to clients around the world.

In November 2025, she launched her first non-fiction book called In Other Words Love, Learning to intimately love our lives. The material is also offered as an e-course available online: Words for Love.

Tracy’s practice as research PhD (University of Aberystwyth, 2018) explored identity, narrative and trauma in autobiographical birth-storytelling. Following this she developed a project called ‘Birth Café’ with People Speak Up in west Wales to create a space for women to share their birth stories from their bodies.

Tracy is a highly experienced freelance consultant in Culture, Health and Wellbeing and most recently worked as the Programme Manager for Wales Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network. She has led on the award-winning Wales-wide artists’ wellbeing programme How Ya Doing? for WAHWN, as well as several arts programmes for staff wellbeing in health boards.

www.tracybreathnach.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/trebreathnach

Insta: http://www.instagram.com/trebreathnach @trebreathnach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tracy-breathnach-13113133/

To buy the book In Other Words Love: https://amzn.eu/d/e0sGyUS


We talked about

Soul friends - anam cara.

The soul path and following your bliss

Trauma and agency

Surrender, creativity and birth

Law of Attraction

Writing her book

Being a writer who loves feedback and sharing via performance


In the Extended Episode - 2 hours long

Working together teaching Burning Woman

Soul and masking

Resourcing – what it is, how it works and how to do it

How we can set ourselves up for peace and creativity in the midst of the current political and economic climate


Resources

Burning Woman

Medicine Woman

Benedict Cumberbatch

Gina Martin

Her new book, In Other Words Love

Jules Heavens

Joan Davies

NLP

IEMT

Authentic Movement

Mary Daly


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