BreathLoop by ShiftRelease
Close the shift. Come home whole.
Built by a Registered Nurse for healthcare professionals who need to regulate stress in real time, without stepping away from their patients.
✓ Built by a Registered Nurse
✓ Patent Pending
✓ 100+ Healthcare Workers Served
✓ Free Guided Breathing Resources
Healthcare professionals spend every shift caring for others. The BreathLoop was created to make it easier to care for yourself.
Designed to clip directly onto your badge, the BreathLoop uses a simple tactile pattern to guide you through box breathing anytime you need to reset, refocus, or regulate stress. No app required. No stepping away. No extra equipment. Just your badge, your breath, and 16 seconds.
The BreathLoop guides you through one complete 16 second box breathing reset using four raised dome clusters. Each cluster has four domes. Each dome represents 1 second.
Trace each dome with your finger as you breathe. The domes give you a simple tactile guide for timing the reset without needing to count in your head.
Four clusters. Four domes per cluster. One dome per second. One complete reset in 16 seconds.
Repeat as needed, right where you stand.
No app required. No stepping away. No extra equipment.
ShiftRelease is the trusted stress reset system for healthcare workers, beginning with the BreathLoop and built to grow with every clinician who wants to close the shift and come home whole.
We are not just building a product. We are building the category.
The BreathLoop is built around box breathing, a widely recognized breathing technique used to support stress regulation, improve focus, and calm the nervous system. Research published in Cell Reports Medicine (Balban et al., 2023) found that structured breathing techniques produced measurable improvements in mood and physiological markers of stress.
The BreathLoop does not treat or cure any condition. It is designed as a simple tactile guide that makes an evidence-supported breathing practice easier to access during a busy clinical shift.
"This brought my focus back immediately mid-shift."
— PCA, Houston Methodist
"I have never seen anything like this. Every nurse needs one."
— Registered Nurse
"I already ordered one for my whole team."
— Healthcare Professional
Buying for a hospital, nursing school, EMS agency, fire department, or healthcare organization?
Visit our For Organizations page to learn about institutional orders, team pricing, and custom quote requests.
I am a bedside Registered Nurse. I built the BreathLoop because I needed it myself.
After years of high-stakes shifts, I knew that the tools we use to survive them had to change. The BreathLoop is the first step. ShiftRelease is the system we are building to support every clinician who gives everything at work and still wants to come home whole.
Thank you for being part of this.
Andres Doctor, RN
Founder, ShiftRelease
