There are moments in life where everything falls apart at once. For Sophie Deslauriers, it wasn’t just the end of an 18-year marriage marked by narcissistic abuse. It was divorce. It was a cancer diagnosis. It was being told her chances of conceiving were less than 5%. It was standing in the wreckage of the life she thought she was supposed to have and asking, “Who am I now?” What started as a healing practice became a reclamation, a remembering and a return to herself.
There are moments in life where everything falls apart at once. For Sophie Deslauriers, it wasn’t just the end of an 18-year marriage marked by narcissistic abuse. It was divorce. It was a cancer diagnosis. It was being told her chances of conceiving were less than 5%. It was standing in the wreckage of the life she thought she was supposed to have and asking, “Who am I now?”
Sophie shares what it truly looks like to live in survival mode and what it takes to break out of it. She opens up about the emotional toll of toxic relationships, the identity loss that can come with long-term trauma, and the unexpected turning point that changed everything: breath work. What started as a healing practice became a reclamation, a remembering and a return to herself.