About Romy
Romy Limenes is a trauma-informed somatic and breathwork practitioner, educator, and author of Broken to Breathful.
With more than two decades of experience as a registered nurse, alongside her lived experience as a mother and survivor of drug-facilitated assault and the profound and disorienting aftermath that followed, Romy’s work explores the intersection of nervous system regulation, embodiment, and self-reclamation.
What began as a personal unraveling became a deeper inquiry into what it truly means to heal. Over time, she discovered that lasting change could not come through insight alone. It required learning how to reconnect with the body, stay present with herself, and build resilience from the inside out.
Her work is rooted in the belief that self-connection is not something we achieve once and for all, but a practice we return to every day through breath, awareness, movement, and compassionate presence.
Today, Romy supports women navigating life’s hardest seasons to cultivate greater grounding, clarity, resilience, and trust in themselves—so they can meet what is changing without losing themselves in the process.
Broken to Breathful
After surviving an assault and then being arrested when she called for help, Romy found herself navigating a profound loss of safety, identity, and voice. Being disbelieved and unable to fully tell her story became its own kind of trauma.
Writing Broken to Breathful became her first act of reclaiming that voice.
What began as a way to make sense of an unimaginable experience slowly evolved into something much bigger. Through the process of writing, Romy discovered that the practices she had instinctively turned to - breath, movement, nature, creativity, self-expression, and connection - weren't random. Together, they became the foundation of her Lifelines and the Root, Reframe, Rise framework that now guides all of her work.
Broken to Breathful is both a deeply personal memoir and an invitation to return to yourself. It reminds us that healing doesn't begin when life is fixed - it begins the moment we reconnect with ourselves.
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Breathwork became my guide.
Through simple, intentional breathing practices, I began to reconnect with my body, release old patterns, and remember who I am beneath the noise. What I came to understand is that lasting transformation is rarely built through a single breakthrough - it’s shaped through the small, steady practices we return to over time.
From this, I began developing what I now call Lifelines - grounding practices and intentional ways of being that help you navigate stress, overwhelm, and life’s transitions without losing yourself in the process.
Lifelines are the things we choose to make sacred through consistent attention and intention. They are the anchors we return to daily - supporting the nervous system, reconnecting us with the body, and creating steadiness from within.
How I Support Women
Now, I walk beside women navigating their own seasons of hardship, identity disruption, and threshold moments - those spaces where the old way no longer fits, but the path forward has not yet fully revealed itself.
Together, we don’t rush toward answers or transformation. We slow down. We breathe. We learn how to return to ourselves - and from that steadier place, move forward one intentional step at a time.
This work isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about reconnecting with what has always been there beneath the noise, survival patterns, and self-abandonment: your clarity, your courage, your intuition, and your capacity to trust yourself again.
Across all of my spaces - from workshops and 1:1 coaching to Bend & Breathe - this work is rooted in safety, authenticity, embodiment, and self-connection. These are not spaces to perform, push, or become someone else. They are spaces to build a more honest and sustainable relationship with yourself, cultivate practices that support your nervous system, and expand your capacity to meet life with greater presence and steadiness.