Breathe & Refuel
Stress happens. What matters is how your body recovers from it.
Stress Recovery for Busy Lives
Your life is full, fast, and demanding, and lately it feels like it’s tipping from busy into overwhelming.
Your mind is always tracking the next thing: tasks, responsibilities, and it’s disrupting your sleep.
You move quickly from one thing to the next, rarely pausing, because slowing down is not an option.
Your doctor has told you your nervous system is stuck in fight‑or‑flight, and that needs to change.
You hear words like cortisol, adrenaline, or chronic stress, and you recognize yourself in them.
You’re frustrated because your body can’t keep the same pace, so you compensate with caffeine, multitasking, or staying busy.
This work is for you if you find yourself in moments like these:
Your energy is more consistent, without needing to push or compensate
You respond more easily instead of feeling reactive or overwhelmed
Your body feels more settled, even on busy days
Your mind isn’t working so hard all the time
You feel less on edge and more capable of handling what’s in front of you
What this support focuses on
Improving how quickly and fully your body recovers from stress
Breathe & Refuel supports your body’s natural ability to recover from stress. Through breath-led practices and personalized guidance, your nervous system settles so stress doesn’t stay activated longer than it’s meant to. As recovery improves, you may notice:
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Breathe & Refuel is offered as one-on-one support so your experience is fully personalized.
Each session may include:
- Guided breathwork using rhythmic, intentional breathing
- Awareness of tension patterns as they show up in the body
- Practices that support nervous system recovery
- Simple ways to bring recovery into daily life
The Breathe & Refuel Experience
You don’t need more motivation, discipline, or coping strategies.
You need a body that can recover more reliably.
“Stress is not just psychological. It is a whole-body process regulated by the nervous system.”
Breathe and Refuel Client
“What stood out most was how quickly my body responded. Instead of trying to think my way out of stress, my breath helped everything slow down. I felt calmer the rest of the day.”
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Neuroscientist
Hi there! I’m Stacey Cauvin.
I’m a certified SOMA Breath® Instructor and an ICF-certified coach.
I work with people who live busy lives and want a practical, body-based way to recover from stress without stepping away from everything.
Before I ever named it, I was living in what I call survival energy. On the outside, I was performing, productive, and keeping up with a fast-paced life. Underneath, my system was running on adrenaline and cortisol.
I pushed through. I coped with the pressure.
But the effects of stress built up.
It showed up in my sleep, digestion, mood, and energy. Over time, it became chronic stress and began taking a real toll on my body.
That experience is what led me to create Breathe & Refuel.
It didn’t come from theory. It came from practice.
Working with nervous system recovery showed me how stress actually affects the body and how recovery works. I learned that breath is not just a support tool. It is the foundation.
When you change how you relate to your breath, awareness, and body cues, the nervous system spends less time in stress activation and recovers more efficiently.
Develop awareness of your early stress cues and learn how to use breath and simple body-based practices to shift your state in the moment. This supports steadiness without needing to step away or stop your day.
Real-Time Regulation
Build the capacity to stay flexible in changing situations, physically, mentally, and emotionally. As regulation improves, your body becomes better able to support calm, clear decisions under pressure.
Adaptability That Lasts
Support your nervous system in recovering more efficiently after stress. Over time, your body carries less strain, energy is more consistent, and everyday demands feel easier to meet..
A Steadier Baseline
Learn how to help your system settle so clear thinking becomes available again. As stress activation eases, your mind feels less crowded and it becomes easier to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting on autopilot.
Clarity Under Pressure
Stress will always be there. But you’ll be able to meet it with more clarity, steadiness, and composure.
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Feel more steady in your body, clearer in your mind, and more at ease as you move through your day.
Through Breathe & Refuel, you’ll develop:
My approach is practice based and meets you where you are. We work with how the nervous system naturally recovers from stress so the body carries less strain and has more capacity for everyday demands.
Clients often notice their reactions soften, their thinking feels clearer, and stress doesn’t linger the way it used to.
Together, we work with how stress shows up in your system, including racing thoughts, physical tension, and emotional reactivity. The focus is on helping your body respond more steadily so stress resolves instead of building over time.
I create a supportive space to help your body settle, recover from stress, and build steadier responses over time.
You’ll:
✔ Recognize your body’s stress signals earlier
✔ Use breath to help your system settle and regain focus
✔ Support more regulated responses under everyday pressure
✔ Protect your energy by reducing how much stress your body carries
✔ Build a steady baseline you can return to anytime
I’ll help you understand what your body needs to recover from stress and return to steadiness more easily.
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Capacity is built by moving gently between activation and recovery. Through breath-led practice, the nervous system learns it can handle stress and return to steadiness more efficiently.
Capacity
Pathway 3
This trains the body to move through stress and recover more easily.
Integration
Pathway 4
We begin with awareness, noticing what’s happening in your body before stress takes over. Through breath and gentle, mindful movement, you learn to recognize early tension cues and support your system before stress escalates.
Awareness
Pathway 1
The Four Pathways to Recovery
Using breath, rhythm, sound, and simple regulation practices, we help calm the body’s stress response and restore internal balance. This pathway supports the shift out of prolonged protection and into recovery, where steadiness and clarity become more available again.
Resonance
Pathway 2
In this phase, what your body experiences in sessions is carried into daily life. We focus on translating these practices into real-world moments so recovery becomes more accessible and consistent over time.
In Breathe & Refuel, we work through four interconnected pathways that help your nervous system access recovery more consistently.
Yes. This work is designed for real life. The goal is not to eliminate stress, but to help your body recover more reliably so stress doesn’t accumulate or take as much of a toll.
Will this help if my life is still busy and stressful?
No. This work focuses on how the nervous system responds to stress and how it recovers. Rather than managing stress cognitively, we work with breathing patterns that influence physiological stress responses directly.
Is this just another stress technique?
Breathe & Refuel is a breath-led, body-based approach designed to support nervous system recovery from stress. Sessions focus on helping the body settle, recover more efficiently, and respond more steadily under everyday pressure.
What is Breathe & Refuel?
Frequently Asked Questions
This work uses guided breath practices, but it’s not traditional meditation. The focus is on how breathing patterns influence the nervous system and support recovery, rather than quieting the mind or observing thoughts.
Is this breathwork or meditation?
Some people notice shifts in how their body feels during or shortly after a session. More lasting changes usually develop with consistent practice, as the nervous system learns to recover more efficiently over time.
How quickly might I notice changes?
No experience is required. Sessions are designed to meet you where you are, using simple, guided practices that are accessible even if you’re new to breathwork or body-based work.
Do I need experience with breathwork or yoga?
Breathwork is generally safe for most people, but certain practices may not be appropriate if you are pregnant or have heart or respiratory conditions. Modifications are always available, and breath holds can be skipped when needed. If you have medical concerns, consult a healthcare professional before participating.
Is this safe for everyone?
Between-session practices are simple and optional. The focus is on helping you integrate recovery into daily life in realistic ways, rather than adding another routine you have to maintain perfectly.
Sessions are supportive and paced by your breath. Some practices may feel calming, others gently energizing. The overall goal is to help your body move out of stress activation and into recovery, without forcing or pushing.
What does a typical session feel like?
Do I need to practice between sessions?
No. Breathe & Refuel is a general wellness practice focused on stress recovery and nervous system support. It is not a substitute for medical care or mental health treatment.
Not exactly. While many people feel calmer, the focus is on helping the nervous system recover from stress more efficiently. This means stress responses don’t linger as long, and the body can return to steadiness more easily.
Is this about relaxing or calming down?
Is this therapy or medical treatment?
That’s very common. Sessions are designed to work with how your body responds in the moment, not how well you think you’re doing it. There’s no right or wrong way to experience the practices.
This work starts with the body rather than analysis or problem-solving. Instead of talking through stress, we work with breathing patterns and physiological cues that directly influence how the nervous system responds and recovers.
How is this different from talk-based approaches?
What if I have trouble slowing down?
What’s the science and is there evidence this actually works?
Breathing patterns directly influence the nervous system. Slower, rhythmic breathing and longer exhales can shift the body out of stress activation by changing vagal tone, heart rate variability, and the balance between sympathetic activation and parasympathetic recovery. Research also shows breath-led practices can reduce perceived stress and support regulation markers like HRV, especially with consistent practice. The goal here is not forcing calm, but training the body to recover from stress more efficiently.
How is This different from other breathwork I’ve tried?
We use rhythmic breathing, sound, and structured patterns to train the nervous system rather than simply calm it. The goal is not just relaxation, but building the body’s ability to move through stress and recover more efficiently.
Do I need to commit long-term to see results?
Some people notice changes quickly, but lasting benefits usually come from repeated practice. This is about training recovery, not fixing stress in one session.
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