When Healing Becomes a Performance
In this episode of The Dark Side with Verity, Verity Jo Coonan explores what happens when healing stops being private and starts becoming something to perform.In a world where inner work is increasing...
22 Helmi 20min
The Cost of Holding Space
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan explores the real cost of holding space and how that cost changes as capacity grows.Holding space is one of the most powerful skills a facilitator, coach, therapist, ...
15 Helmi 19min
Variation Equals Resilience: HRV, Breathwork & Nervous System Health
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) isn’t about how deeply you breathe, it’s about rhythm, regulation, and safety in the body.In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan breaks down what HRV actually measures, why it’...
8 Helmi 12min
Permission to Move On: Grief, Dreams & the Breath That Holds Us
Grief doesn’t end, it expands.In this deeply personal episode, Verity Jo Coonan shares a raw reflection on living with grief fourteen years after the death of her partner. She speaks to what it means ...
1 Helmi 16min
Safety Over Intensity: Why Regulation Heals More Than Peak Experiences
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan explores a powerful reframe in healing and Breathwork: intensity does not equal transformation, safety does.In a wellness world that often glorifies peak experiences,...
25 Tammi 16min
Certification Doesn’t Make You Safe: The Truth About Trauma-Informed Breathwork
In this episode, Verity Jo Coonan speaks openly about one of the most important and often avoided conversations in the breathwork space: safety.- Not safety as a checkbox.- Not safety as a certificati...
18 Tammi 19min
The Lighthouse Principle: Why Powerful Leaders Stop Chasing and Start Holding
In this threshold episode of The Dark Side of Verity, Verity Jo Coonan invites you to slow down, breathe, and meet yourself in stillness.Inspired by the Lighthouse Principle, this is not a “how-to” co...
11 Tammi 18min
Mum Rage, Shame & Nervous System Healing: The Truth About Modern Motherhood
Motherhood, mum rage, guilt, grief and… Breathwork.In this episode, Verity sits down with shadow work + Breathwork coach Steph Beers, mum of three, to talk honestly about what really happens behind cl...
4 Tammi 34min
