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Take A Breath

Take A Breath

By: Polly Warren
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Summary

A podcast for creating practical calm in the messy middle of midlife.


This is your space to pause.

Because life in midlife is full-on. Between work, family, menopause, and the mental load, your nervous system can easily end up in constant overdrive — leaving you feeling exhausted, reactive, and overwhelmed by even the smallest things.


Each week, I’ll share my own tools, alongside honest conversations and practical nervous system support — to help you create more calm, peace, joy, and inner steadiness. Not by escaping your life, because that’s totally unrealistic, but by meeting it differently.


So when you're ready, let’s take a breath together…

© 2026 Take A Breath
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Episodes
  • Thursday Thoughts - Self Doubt
    May 14 2026

    On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about something every single one of us experiences at some point…self-doubt.

    We discuss why it’s so common and why it stops us speaking up, going for things, or trusting ourselves fully.

    We also share some of the things that have genuinely helped us quiet our inner critic and build more self-trust over time.

    Because life is far too short to spend it constantly second-guessing yourself, shrinking yourself, or waiting until you feel “ready.”

    We hope you find something useful in here.

    Love Polly & Lucy x

    Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.

    Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.

    Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.

    To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspace

    Email me at: info@pollywarren.com
    https://www.pollywarren.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

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    32 mins
  • Healing, Grief & Trusting Yourself: Carly’s Story
    May 12 2026

    In this episode of Take a Breath, I’m joined by my lovely friend Carly for a deeply honest conversation about her journey through breast cancer and everything that came with it.

    Nearly three years ago, Carly was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy. Instead, she chose a very different path, one that focused on radically changing her lifestyle.

    And of course, it wasn’t easy.

    We talk openly about the reality of what that looked like day-to-day, cutting out sugar, preparing everything from scratch, trying to reduce toxins, learning to slow down, and turning inward through meditation.

    During this time, Carly also lost her mum to cancer, while continuing to navigate her own diagnosis and the fear and uncertainty that came with it. At one stage, the cancer spread, yet Carly continued to trust the path she was on and doubled down on caring for her body and mind in a completely different way.

    Now, two years later, after recent scans, doctors could find no trace of cancer.

    This episode is not about telling anyone what they should or shouldn’t do medically, and Carly’s experience is uniquely her own. But it is a powerful conversation about trust, intuition, resilience, lifestyle, emotional wellbeing, and the incredible connection between mind and body.

    We talk about:

    • Carly’s diagnosis and the emotions that followed
    • Why she chose a different route
    • The intense lifestyle changes she made
    • Stress, grief, and the nervous system
    • Meditation and emotional healing
    • Learning to trust herself
    • What this experience taught her about life

    It’s a raw, moving, hopeful conversation and one I know so many of you will take something meaningful from.

    Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.

    Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.

    Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.

    To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspace

    Email me at: info@pollywarren.com
    https://www.pollywarren.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

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    55 mins
  • Thursday Thoughts - Small Steps When Noone's Watching
    May 7 2026

    On this week's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about the small, unglamorous steps that we take when nobody’s watching, that ultimately get us to where we want to go.

    For example, I talks about the tiny, seemingly insignificant physio exercises I'm doing every day to help heal from my knee operation - it would be easy to feel like they weren’t doing anything, but I'm trusting the process, showing up every day, knowing that they will pay off eventually.

    So if there’s something you’d like to do, remember that it’s those baby steps you take that nobody else sees that are actually having the biggest impact of all.

    We hope you’ll find something useful in here.

    Love,
    Polly & Lucy x

    Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.

    Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.

    Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.

    To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspace

    Email me at: info@pollywarren.com
    https://www.pollywarren.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

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    30 mins
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Love listening to Polly and her interesting guests. I needed to learn more about my body changing and this podcast gave me a lot of useful information from guests with such different backgrounds as well as approaches to women's health. Listening to Polly with her sweet voice and wise choice of questions feels like such an uplifting way to spend my drive home. Putting up her podcast makes me even more motivated to get outside for a walk, feeling like I brought a friend along.

Great supportive and informative podcast

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