Meet Jeremiah Marshall | Introspective Breathwork Therapist®

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jeremiah Marshall and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jeremiah, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
This is a Journal entry I’ve written I feel comfortable for you guys to use as material. Some parts may repeat but rephrased.

I’ve completed my 12 Week Personal Journey with the One Breath Institute. Reflecting on those 12 weeks and my Self-Actualization journey as a whole that started in 2021 on Thursday May 13th at 10:14 PM. After my first experience with a psychedelic called DMT. DMT revealed to me a plethora of things that I was convinced wasn’t possible for me to experience or feel. One feeling being, in total and complete relief from my chronic pain. My chronic pain the one sensation I’ve never not once EVER! been able to fully unburden myself from and make nonexistent. In that moment I was cured of anything that had ever caused me anguish or misery or despair. The clarity I experienced in that moment being absolutely free of my chronic pain and limitations of my disabled disfigured body. It felt like 20 years of therapy in 10 minutes.

Being a individual born with a incurable disease having only ever experienced life in this manner and having a majority of my mental health affected by this disease. Having a moment of being absolutely enveloped, lifted up, removed and ripped away from my physical and emotional suffering and dunked into a euphoric joyful place of painless, boundless and limitless, loving, ecstasy. Essentially my entire body experienced the complete polar opposite physiology of cortisol poisoning, breaking a “Survival Mode Fever”.

Afterwards and during that experience one question stuck with me that on repeat I kept asking myself “Without a physical disability and physical debilitating chronic pain. Why are so many people so stuck, miserable and unhappy with life? When it’s been created for humans to thrive, dominate and master it, with ease. There is nothing physically keeping and stopping people from doing, going, acting, living, trying, failing etc. What is it that’s keeping the most limitless and most capable people limited and incapable of living life how they want?”

My experience with DMT spurred, inspired and catapulted me into gathering any and all information I could find about DMT. Which lead me to read Joe Dispenza’s book “Becoming Supernatural” and his research on the science of breathing exercises and meditation. Reading Becoming Supernatural and doing Joe Dispenza’s techniques and methods taught me I could reach that exact same painless, limitless, boundless, loving euphoria I had experienced on DMT by simply breathing.

I felt so deeply impacted by my experience and felt the call to find out a way I could help people have the same profound life changing experience I had as a career. I figured if I could do what I’ve achieved despite my unfortunate debilitating chronic delicate circumstance then I’m more than qualified to be a support to others in finding different ways in changing how they think, feel and experience their life, themselves, other people. Enabling them to feel safe again in this big scary world we live in, After dropping out of 2 year college video and audio production program for an associates degree. I came across the One Breath Institute in a Facebook ad. They were offering a extensive thorough trauma informed Introspective Breathwork Therapy® certification class. Everything about the name of the school, how conscious and sensitive they were to trauma aligned with the passion I have to help people with their mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

I’ve learned a lot about myself, I’ve had a lot of internal shifts, fundamental transformations in perspectives, perceptions of self and others that have changed how I think, feel and view the world.

I’ve learned that there’s not one answer to life but many. It’s too intricate, complex and nuanced for there to be just one singular answer. As you live life you’re going to keep coming across answers. The more courage you have to be open, curious, and honest with yourself to that question the quicker you will come across those answers, especially the answers you weren’t seeking but they answer the question you’re asking, with the most gut wrenching truth. One of the many answers to life that I’ve come across is that. Life is Trauma and Trauma is Life. There’s no way around that. Coming to that understanding, lead me to another understanding, that the only way I’ve found to heal the Trauma of Life, is to have the courage to be curious and honest with yourself. I caught on quickly to “Asking Difficult Questions” being a large part of healing trauma but the being curious part wasn’t obvious to me. I was spending my time thinking about my trauma, thinking about my thoughts, feelings and emotions. Thinking about what good “Difficult Pointed Questions” I could ask my thoughts, feelings and emotions to help process them better. When I stopped thinking and started being curious about my thoughts, feelings and emotions is when breakthroughs, breakdowns, realizations, and epiphanies started happening sooner and more often. All of my previous breakthroughs, breakdowns, realizations, and epiphanies had only happened because I reached a point where I felt safe enough to be curious about the thought, feeling or emotion or rather, curious about the culmination of the trifecta of thought, feeling and emotion. I’ve learned that with every moment I allowed myself to sit with the traumatic thought, feeling and emotion. I was building up the courage, strength, confidence and resilience to bundle and wrap up the thought, feeling and emotion in curiosity to break through the barriers of fear fabricated by the traumatic experience that is life. Healing trauma doesn’t come with a processing bar with a percentage indicating how much trauma is left unprocessed. I’ve learned that if you think that you aren’t making any progress in your healing because it doesn’t “feel” like it, that feeling in itself is progress.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am most proud of several things:
My mental fortitude to persevere despite unimaginable continual setbacks, health scares and surgeries that I’ve managed to bounce back from stronger than before and I’ve changed the relationship I have with my incurable illness Epidermolysis Bullosa.

My disease Epidermolysis Bullosa isn’t called the worst disease you’ve never heard of for no reason. I’m not comparing traumatic life experiences. But this disease is the epitome of struggle and would give anyone a very valid reason to want to give up on life and succumb to never ending pain.

I’ve managed to transform my suffering, manage my chronic pain without the use of any prescription over the counter painkillers. I’ve experienced being sheltered from life in my teens and twenties stuck at home healing, or recovering from surgery. Doctors said I wasn’t going to survive past the age of 5. I started to have the courage to live my life at the age of 28. I had a lot of social development to catch up on. I went out into the world in my wheelchair to meet people, once I found my supportive people I started a growing online business at the age of 33 with a chronic incurable genetic mutation. It’s never too late to start something.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Coronado Island is a one of my favorite places to go with my friends, we’ll go to Claytons cafe and then walk over to the hotel del for live music.

Another great place is Lumi’s. It’s a Lively rooftop Japanese eatery spotlighting sushi, seafood & meat plates, plus cocktails & sake. in Downtown San Diego. They have awesome DJ’s.

The various massive famers markets all over San Diego to choose from scattered all through out the week. From Little Italy on Saturday’s, Ocean Beach on Thursdays, Downtown Chula Vista on Sundays.

The Music Box is also a really cool little venue in downtown San Diego worth checking out for live music shows.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
ShoutOut to Dr.Joe Dispenza and the teachings in his book Becoming Supernatural.

ShoutOut to Lisa McNett Founder and Deborah Dickey Co-Founder of One Breath Institute where I’m getting my certification training for my Life purpose.

ShoutOut Lexi Holly my close friend that’s a VP of sales in the Cannabis Industry for supporting me in all of my decisions and business endeavors and helping me experience the fullness of Life and putting my Service Dog Seymour in my Life.

ShoutOut to my Mother Erlinda for giving me life and being my caregiver through all of the trials of Epidermolysis Bullosa has put me through.

Website: https://butterfly-breath-work.com/

Instagram: @butterfly_breathwork

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ButterflyBuddhaBreathwork

Image Credits
The photo with the Debra watermark was taken by Ari Espay Chilean NYC Based photographer