{"id":21,"date":"2025-11-19T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bydagna.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:55:36","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bydagna.com\/pl\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Hero Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;90deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;rgba(244,240,233,0.9) 30%|rgba(244,240,233,0) 100%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(244,240,233,0.9)&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position=&#8221;30%&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(244,240,233,0)&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/bydagna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_7897-1-scaled.webp&#8221; 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I&#8217;d cancel things. Lie on the bathroom floor. Then get up, go to work, and act normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"20:1-20:68;401-468\">The tests found nothing. I was told it was just how some women are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"22:1-22:177;470-646\">Then came a cancer scare &#8211; a lump, removed, benign, but with a family history that means I don&#8217;t get to be casual about it. And ovarian cysts I was told weren&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"24:1-24:106;648-753\">I started breathwork and cold showers in 2020. Not for any of that. I just wanted to feel less exhausted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"26:1-26:226;755-980\">Within months, the period pain stopped. A year later, a scan showed the cysts were gone. The doctor asked what I&#8217;d done. I said breathwork and cold exposure. She looked at me like I was winding her up, so I said I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"28:1-28:12;982-993\">But I knew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"30:1-30:220;995-1214\">I&#8217;m not selling a miracle. Bodies are complicated and I&#8217;m one person, not a study. But I spent years being told nothing was wrong while something was clearly wrong, and then found tools nobody had ever mentioned to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"30:1-30:220;995-1214\">\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"36:1-36:40;1237-1276\"><strong>Before this, I worked in corporate.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"38:1-38:158;1278-1435\">Years of it. Boards, executives, long hours, and the particular kind of pressure that doesn&#8217;t look like pressure from the outside because you&#8217;re handling it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"40:1-40:82;1437-1518\">Until I wasn&#8217;t. I burned out badly enough that it took me two years to come back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"42:1-42:127;1520-1646\">I understand what sustained pressure does to a body, because it happened to mine while I was busy telling everyone I was fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"44:1-44:130;1648-1777\">That&#8217;s why I do this work the way I do. Not as wellness. As physiology &#8211; practical, teachable, and useful on an ordinary Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"30:1-30:220;995-1214\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; text_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; min_height=&#8221;556.3px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|-39px||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|||0px||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;top&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;10%&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;100%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How I trained<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"52:1-52:205;1821-2025\">My turning point came in January 2023, on my first Winter Expedition in Poland. In the icy wilderness. Breath, cold, and raw human connection &#8211; something clicked, and I knew I couldn&#8217;t keep it to myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\" data-sourcepos=\"54:1-54:315;2027-2341\">Over the following year I trained relentlessly, travelling across Europe to attend every Wim Hof Method event I could, and learning from elite instructors. 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