The Breathe Sober Method: Sobriety Without the Struggle | Ep 232
🎙️ Healing Alcohol Dependency Through Breathwork w/ Hamza Najam 🌬️🧘♂️
In this powerful episode, Hamza Najam shares his raw journey from secret drinking in Pakistan 🇵🇰 to full-blown addiction in Canada 🇨🇦—and how he found lasting freedom through breathwork, meditation, and inner transformation.
✨ What you'll discover:
🔹 The breathwork technique that calms cravings in minutes
🔹 Why mindset shifts and nervous system regulation are essential to long-term sobriety
🔹 Hamza’s 3-phase program to build an alcohol-free life
🔹 Why change must come from within, not for anyone else
If you're navigating your own healing path—or supporting someone who is—this conversation is a must-listen 💡💖
🎧 Tune in now and breathe into a new way of being.
📲 Connect with Hamza & join his free masterclass to go deeper.
Hazam’s FREE masterclass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7g7zvCx1M&t=205s&ab_channel=BreatheSober%E2%84%A2
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Episode Summary:
Key Takeaways
- Hamza overcame severe alcohol addiction through meditation, breathwork, and inner work
- Breathwork techniques like alternate nostril breathing can help manage alcohol cravings in minutes
- Hamza's year-long program helps people build an alcohol-free life through mindset shifts, habit changes, and nervous system regulation
- Lasting change comes from doing the work for yourself, not for others
Topics
Hamza's Personal Journey with Alcohol
- Started drinking heavily as a teen in Pakistan where alcohol was illegal
- Continued binge drinking in Canada, escalating over ~8 years
- Had a near-death experience at age 27 that sparked initial attempts to quit
- Relapsed after 9 months of "white-knuckling" sobriety without addressing root causes
- Finally achieved lasting sobriety in March 2020 through meditation and inner work
Using Breathwork to Manage Cravings
- Alternate nostril breathing can shift nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic state in ~10 minutes
- This provides a healthy alternative to alcohol for relaxation/stress relief
- Breathwork allows examining true needs behind alcohol cravings
- Can be applied to manage other life stressors beyond alcohol
Hamza's Alcohol Recovery Program
- Year-long program focused on mindset, habits, and nervous system regulation
- Phases: 1) Identify patterns/beliefs 2) Interrupt patterns 3) Build new habits/routines
- Uses visualization, James Clear's habit stacking, chakra work
- Encourages real-world testing of new alcohol-free identity
Keys to Lasting Change
- Must want change for yourself, not others
- Focus on behavior change first; thoughts/feelings will follow
- Trust gut instinct over fear-based mental chatter
- Taking action is easier than imagining it will be
Next Steps
- Listeners struggling with alcohol can reach out to Hamza on Instagram or YouTube
- Free masterclass available to learn more about Hamza's approach
- Follow Hamza for ongoing transformation stories and resources
About the Guest:
Hamza Najam is a Certified Breathwork Teacher and Nationally Certified Recovery Coach (Levels 1 & 2) and holds a certification in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. With years of experience helping individuals break free from alcohol dependence, Hamza combines breathwork, neuroscience, and personal transformation strategies to guide his clients toward lasting change. After struggling with alcohol himself and trying AA, he deeply understands the emotional and physiological grip it can have. While traditional recovery methods helped some, they didn’t resonate with him—leading him to explore breathwork, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation as a path to healing. His journey led him to create Breathesober, a coaching program that helps career-driven parents regain control over their drinking, reduce stress, and build a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Today, he continues to share his insights through coaching, speaking, and online programs, helping others find the freedom and clarity they deserve.
Contact:
IG: hamzanajam.sobrietycoaching
Website: www.breathesober.com
e-mail: Connect@breathesober.com
Youtube: Breathesober
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherapy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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