Free clinically validated breathing questionnaire
Some symptoms have no obvious cause. Your
breathing might
be the one nobody’s checked.
This isn’t a wellness quiz.
It’s the same assessment used in clinical practice.
Around one in ten people live with a breathing-driven stress pattern that quietly amplifies anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, broken sleep, and tension — often for years — without ever knowing their breath is involved. The Nijmegen Questionnaire is the clinically validated screening tool used in breathing clinics worldwide. In a few minutes, it tells you whether your breathing is a likely driver of the symptoms you’ve been managing.
Dysfunctional breathing rarely looks like breathlessness. It looks like this.
Anxiety or panic that seems to arrive out of nowhere
• Fatigue or brain fog that rest doesn’t fix
• Wired at bedtime, awake at 3am
• A tight chest, frequent sighing or yawning, or never quite getting a full breath
• On edge, unable to switch off, always braced for the next thing If three or more sound familiar, the Nijmegen is worth a few minutes of your time.
The mechanism most assessments miss
Your breath and your nervous system are in constant conversation.
Your breath and your nervous
system are in constant
conversation.
When stress hits, your breathing changes first — faster, higher in the chest, with a shorter exhale. That’s useful in a real emergency. But when stress becomes chronic, that pattern gets locked in, and your nervous system keeps reading the altered breath as: threat still present.
The emergency never quite ends. This is hyperventilation in its quiet, chronic form — anxiety, fatigue, broken sleep, tension — and most people have never had their breathing checked.
When stress hits, your breathing changes first — faster, higher in the chest, with a shorter exhale. That’s useful in a real emergency. But when stress becomes chronic, that pattern gets locked in, and your nervous system keeps reading the altered breath as: threat still present.
The emergency never quite ends. This is hyperventilation in its quiet, chronic form — anxiety, fatigue, broken sleep, tension — and most people have never had their breathing checked.
It’s not Who you are. It’s a pattern. And patterns can change.
Why I'm sharing this
Why I'm sharing this
I’m Emma Ferris — a physiotherapist of 20+ years and a nervous system coach. Of all the tools I use, the Nijmegen is one of the most functional — because it joins the dots.
The brain fog, the anxiety, the shortness of breath, the broken sleep — symptoms that feel scattered and unexplained — can all trace back to one clinically validated pattern: dysfunctional breathing.
Most women never realise they’re connected. You don’t know what you don’t know — which is exactly why I’m sharing it: so you can see the link for yourself, then take the tools to shift it into your own hands.
I’m Emma Ferris — a physiotherapist of 20+ years and a nervous system coach. Of all the tools I use, the Nijmegen is one of the most functional — because it joins the dots.
The brain fog, the anxiety, the shortness of breath, the broken sleep — symptoms that feel scattered and unexplained — can all trace back to one clinically validated pattern: dysfunctional breathing. Most women never realise they’re connected.
You don’t know what you don’t know — which is exactly why I’m sharing it: so you can see the link for yourself, then take the tools to shift it into your own hands.
Emma Ferris
Take it back into your hands
Your symptoms aren't random — and they're not fixed.
The anxiety, the fatigue, the brain fog, the broken sleep have felt separate, and out of your control. They’re not. They trace back to a breathing pattern that’s been holding your nervous system on high alert — and that pattern can change. As you retrain it, your body comes off alert, and the symptoms start to lift.
The 30 Day Breath Reset is how you take control — a guided program that retrains your breathing and teaches your nervous system to feel safe again, so how you feel is back in your hands.
