06/07/2025
PLEASE LIKE & FOLLOW my new Breathwork Page: Timothy Pratt
Hello all,
Many of you know that alongside training dogs, I’m also a certified breathwork coach. What some of you might not know is how much this work has shaped my own journey.
After nearly two decades in Corrective Services as a tactical response and dog handler, I left carrying the weight of cumulative PTSD. Breathwork became my lifeline—it helped me regulate my nervous system, take control of my emotions, and step out of survival mode. For the first time in years, I felt grounded, present, and truly connected—with myself, with others, and with life.
Since then, I’ve quietly supported individuals through breathwork—guiding them to find calm, clarity, and emotional balance in their own lives. But lately, I’ve felt a stronger calling to do more. To work with people who are carrying stress, anxiety, or the weight of past experiences. To help them regulate their nervous systems, reconnect with themselves, and navigate life with a deeper sense of presence and purpose.
This new page won’t replace Diverse Dogs—it’s simply a dedicated space for me to share more about breathwork, nervous system regulation, and presence, and how these practices can support anyone on their own journey.
If this speaks to you—or you’re curious about how breathwork might support your life—I’d love you to follow me.
🌱 In time, I’ll also be sharing ways we can work together. For now if you would please support me by liking the introductory post below and following the page I would be very grateful.
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🌀 Hey, I’m Tim – and “this is where we create space for change, growth, and a new chapter.”
For 15 years, I worked in Corrective Services as a Tactical Response and Drug Detection Dog Handler and Instructor. It was a career I loved – one that gave me purpose, pride, and an identity I carried with me everywhere.
But behind the uniform, life wasn’t as steady as it seemed.
Years of high-stress environments and exposure to trauma left me carrying more than I realised. Over time, cumulative PTSD began to erode not just my mental health, but also the life I’d built around my career. When I lost that role, it felt like I’d lost a part of myself.
My identity was in chaos. I was filled with shame, guilt, and a deep sense of failure. The work I loved was gone, and with it, the only version of myself I knew.
My world became small and dark.
I was stuck in a loop of negative thoughts and emotions – guilt, shame, anger, hopelessness. My self-worth felt shattered. I withdrew from the people around me because I didn’t want to talk, didn’t want to burden anyone. I tried to keep moving forward the way the system told me to: talk therapy and medication. But neither gave me the sense of relief or healing I was so desperate for.
I felt broken.
Then, BREATHWORK found me.
Ironically, I wasn’t even there for myself. I’d gone along to support a friend, skeptical and guarded. I wasn’t looking for a miracle – I didn’t even believe there was one.
But what happened in that session changed everything.
I can’t fully explain it here, and I’ll share more about that experience with you another time. But I will say this: it wasn’t a gradual shift. It felt like all the tension and heaviness I’d carried for years finally cracked open, and in its place there was quiet. There was stillness.
That first experience lit a spark in me. It sent me down a rabbit hole of discovery, a hunger to understand more. Breathwork became the gateway that led me to PRESENCE – the here and now – and from there to a deeper truth: the awareness behind the thoughts.
I realised I wasn’t my thoughts or the stories I’d been telling myself. There was something deeper – a conscious awareness, calm and unchanging, that had been there all along, buried under the constant mental chatter and the roles I thought defined me.
That awareness, paired with breathwork, shaped an entirely new version of me. One that felt calmer, more grounded, and deeply connected to life.
My nervous system began to settle. The hypervigilance and tension that had been my constant companions started to ease. My PTSD symptoms didn’t just reduce; over time, they disappeared.
That first experience opened a door I didn’t even know existed. I left the room no longer skeptical, but deeply curious – and with a sense of hope I hadn’t felt in years.
Now, as a certified breathwork coach, I guide others on their own journeys. I work with people one-on-one in private sessions and also facilitate group breathwork workshops – helping others find the same shift I experienced.
Breathwork has also become a key part of my work with Diverse Dogs , where along side training and rehabilitating dogs for troubling behaviours, I help dog owners regulate their own nervous systems to create calmer, more connected relationships with their dogs. Working with both humans and animals has taught me this: when we find presence and awaken to the awareness beyond our thoughts, everything begins to change. The layers of ego and old stories dissolve, and we reconnect with the part of ourselves that has always been whole.
Your breath is the gateway to that awareness – and from there, transformation ripples outward into your relationship with yourself, with others, with your animals, and the world around you.
This page is where I’ll share my journey, insights, and opportunities to breathe together.
🌬️ Your breath is your anchor. Your medicine. Your way home.
