I'm Lynne.

How I got here

Meditation came into my life when my mother was dying. With so much I couldn't change, I needed a way to be with everything I was feeling, and meditation gave me a little space to breathe.

After eight years of trying to get pregnant, I gave birth to twin girls too soon. They lived for two days. I later became a mother to three children, two of whom I adopted, and through all the love, grief, and uncertainty that came with growing our family, meditation became something I could return to. Eventually, I wanted my children to have those same tools to help them navigate their own lives.

Voilà, an app was born

When I began teaching meditation in schools, teachers started asking for something they could take home to continue the practice. Their question sparked an idea that became Breethe.

As co-founder and the person behind the original idea, I helped shape Breethe from the ground up, bringing my approach to meditation into the app's content and experience. I developed the meditation library and became a public voice for Breethe, sharing our work through media, interviews, and speaking. What began with wanting to help my own family grew into a way to help millions of people find a little more calm in their everyday lives. Creating Breethe has been one of the most meaningful parts of mine.

Then life changed again

Years later, I faced cancer. About six months after finishing treatment, my husband asked for a divorce on New Year's Eve. After our marriage ended, I received a second cancer diagnosis, and my daughter left for school.

As so much of my familiar life changed, I began asking questions I suspect many of us come to at some point: Who am I now? What do I want? And what am I going to do with this precious life of mine?

Years of meditation hadn't supplied me with a handy set of instructions, although I would have welcomed one. I still had big feelings, familiar reactions, and days when the future felt overwhelming. But my practice helped me slow down enough to hear myself more clearly and begin making choices that reflected what mattered to me.

Gradually, alongside the grief and uncertainty, there was room for curiosity about what might come next.

Catching my breath. Choosing what came next.

I began writing Catching Your Breath to make sense of those changes. Over the four years it took to write, I explored how we navigate upheaval, reconnect with ourselves, and open up to possibilities we might never have considered.

That exploration deepened my understanding of Choicefulness: using the awareness we develop through mindfulness to make intentional choices in everyday life.

It can be as ordinary as taking a breath before pressing send, or as consequential as deciding what you want your next chapter to look like. Each pause gives us a chance to listen to ourselves and consider how we want to respond.

Building on 20 years of teaching meditation and creating practices that have reached millions through Breethe, I developed The Soul Shift Method to help you navigate life's changes. It brings together meditation, reflection, and practical tools to help you understand what you're feeling, reconnect with what matters to you, and make thoughtful choices about what comes next.

If you're lying awake wondering what comes next, or looking at a life that no longer quite fits, I hope you'll find something here that helps you catch your breath and hear what matters to you.

There is still so much to discover about ourselves, and so much life to live.

Catch your breath.
Choose what's next.