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The Brains Bio
The Brain’s Bio - the way I explain who I am, where I’ve come from and what I do in the “normal” world!
I am just shy of 30 - thank you and good riddance to the extended Saturn return. I live in a small town in the middle of the outback - which I have a love hate relationship with. The heat in summer makes me want to dig a hole to other side of the earth, then every winter I settle back into delight. I went to uni straight out of school and lived alone at the age of 17 after moving to my capital city. I studied nutrition and exercise science - considering I’ve never used the degree I’m happy I at least picked something interesting! Those 3 years I spent doing long distance with my high school boyfriend - who is now my husband (solidly in his conditioning for 15 years and counting now haha!).
I worked in a cafe out of uni (before doing some travel), a little admin, a few years as a part time travel agent, I partially studied some yoga teacher training, meditation teaching and life coaching. I have now realised I’m not built for formal education - the pressure of deadlines and assignments is a no for me! About 5 years ago I bought the cafe from a friend which I have since expanded into a new building (during covid - brilliant plan) during which I got to redesign the whole thing - my satiated creative mind thrived, my patience (or lack of) was a pain. I love having a small team. I love having a business that allows me to create and play. I love having the cafe as my system that I get to relate to. Business is my biggest expander. Nothing has made me grow and hold space for new iterations of myself more.
For 10 years travel was a big part of my heart. For some reason (cough cough) I have gravitated away from it in the last few years and now have a much greater desire for new roots. I loved the experience of newness. Seeing a new place through a wondrous lens. The joy of new tastes and smells. Old rich culture. Fresh air. I have been to 40 countries. Hiked to Mount Everest Base Camp. Gotten married in Vegas (not by Elvis.. but in front of the Bellagio fountains). Travelled internationally alone on at least 3 times. I have a love affair with Paris even though I hate cities. I know my way around there, we have a past life relationship. I also crave forests and frost. Snowboarding everyday if I could. At some point I realised most of what I wanted was nature. So now I crave a hut in the forest. I want to move somewhere where I can get fresh produce, visit the shores to one side and walk a cold beach. I want to be in reach of the mountains. Close enough civilisation but far enough away to feel alone in the stillness. For now, I’m aiming for Tasmania. It’s also the closest I’ll get to a northern hemisphere climate without moving out of the country.
I have always (even before human design) felt the deep need to understand myself and the people around me. Every modality I tried that helped me feel more myself or more at home in my body I thought I had to take on myself and share. I’ve learned to enjoy the benefits now and stop identifying with each one (except HD.. leave me alone!). I started what people call “the work” I guess in 2018 when it became blatantly obvious to me that I was ill equipped to run a team if I wasn’t comfortable in myself. I needed to learn to set boundaries, to know what was mine and what wasn’t. And to interact with the world in a way so that I didn’t self-abandon at each turn to avoid confrontation or to please some one else. But to also deepen in my capacity for compassion and understanding of those around me. I dip in and out of needing to know myself and falling into a hole of exploring who I am before remembering that this isn’t hard and if I just let go of anything that wasn’t me my answer would be clear (including sometimes the modality that had me in a hold).
Cue Human Design. On top of a few years of coaching now, my own dives in the yogic mindset and meditation, human design gives me a permission slip to let go of all the things I know aren’t me, but was trying to maintain because “I was supposed to”. It gives me a language to describe what I already know and live. And now it gives me a language and system to use to gift others the same permission. Through every modality all I wanted was to feel more myself and to help others feel more of theirselves. This does that. Then the Gene Keys came along and gave me a poetic take on parts of the system. Match made in heaven. I’ve been in relationship with these two systems for a few years now and it’s delicious. It’s a structure that stands sturdy to allow me to expand safely within it.
I love beautiful things. I love poetry. Music is essential. The right music for the right moment. Art and luxurious textures are necessary. I find joy in curating the life around me. I love deep conversations. I love long stories. I love writing. Hence the valley of musings.
And that’s me.
