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Step into a blow-me-away, thought-provoking, and deeply illuminating conversation with Dr. Richard Blake, psychologist, researcher, breathwork practitioner, and author of the upcoming book The Anxiety Industry, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Dr. Blake is known for challenging modern therapy culture, questioning the narratives surrounding trauma and mental health, and bringing the conversation back to evidence, physiology, nervous system regulation, and true healing. Richard shares his own journey through severe anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, binge eating disorder, and compulsive behaviors as a young man. While therapy helped him survive rock bottom, he eventually realized that talk-based approaches alone were not creating the deep transformation he longed for.  That turning point led him into conscious connected breathwork, nervous system regulation, and eventually groundbreaking research, including the largest randomized controlled trial on breathwork to date.