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Nat Carey
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BTS in our studio sessions in Margaret River recording 'This Place Your Soul'. This was a beautiful experience for me. We saved this song til last, it felt like the climax of the whole week of music making and we all knew that the track was extra special and wanted to give it every ounce of our love. We all dug deep for this song. I was so invested but each vocal take wasn't really getting me there and i started to feel really frustrated like i'd pushed my voice too hard during the week and couldn't reach the freedom i was hoping for to let this song really soar. I was trying way too hard! My heart was so in it but my head was getting in the way. We took a moment and my intuitive and soulful producer Danielle @mamakinpics said to me, "Who are you singing this for? Connect to them. Speak their names". I needed that. I needed to drop into the intention of why i had even written this song. Who was this for? Could i reach them across the country from WA to NT with the love in my heart in that moment? I spoke their names out loud. People who had taken me and my family into their lives and generously shared so much of themselves with us in a way that we will never be able to repay. Many of those people have now passed away. I wrote this for the people of the little community at the edge of the world. Maningrida. This is for them.
🎥 @pollyloveslife by @valentinabrave

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SO MUCH FUN to make this with an all female crew of badass babes! Featuring insane artists @artist_mlak + @camilla_croft !

Making art with my girls is the best and @pollyloveslife @renaesaxbymusic and @erin_aya_lee slayed this one with me!

Might be time to make some more wild art!!!! by @valentinabrave

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6 years ago

Happy Mothers Day my loves. To all of you, all feeling, loving and brave mamas, grandmothers, aunties and sisters. Here’s a song from a while ago but it always comes up on these days along with these thoughts - No one tells you that your heart will forever walk outside of your body. No one tells you that the soul contract you have made will hold you hostage in away that is equally divine and terrifying.
No one tells you that you will feel everything they feel. Dive into the icy cold waters of fear when they do. Soar the beautiful air streams above the clouds when they do. Crawl through the darkness along side them. No one tells you that you will hold your breath each time they leave the house and come up for air each time they come home. No one tells you a new universe will be born inside you, where storms and hurricanes are as common as rainbows and flowers unfurling. And it’s everything. Sometimes it feels as easy as breathing. Sometimes it feels like it’s all too hard. But they keep growing me and stretching me, expanding my soul. My everything’s. Everything I need x by @valentinabrave

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Reely (yes that’s an insta-pun) enjoying airing my internal musings with you all.

Midwifing thru suffering is the topic here. The act of dedicating to ourselves across the passage of suffering and being committed to seeking out the answers, the path, the tools.

My life has been heavy laden with big chunky passages of deep quiet dense anchoring depression, the kind no one sees (other than my husband 🥹🙏🏽), the kind that tries to drown me, the kind that I’ve been near swallowed up by.

BUT - I kept breathing underwater and midwifed my way through. Did not let go of my own hand as much as I sometimes fantasised about it. (Titanic fantasy?!)

Seeking answers. Seeking keys. Seeking uplift. Seeking buoyancy. Seeking strategies.

That’s the midwifing part.

Keep going my friend. Keep going.

Keep seeking.

Know when to just rest. Know when to push!

There is a light seeking you as purposefully as you are seeking it.

💛

#midwifinglife #hormonesupport #latediagnosisadhd #breathingunderwater by @valentinabrave

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I realised today that I’m midwifing myself through my midlife.

I’m a bit obsessed with this idea now (hence my cute but maybe actually super dorky reel).

I think this is a beautiful way to see it, this transformation from mother to crone.

Midwives, the skilled healers, tending to, ushering in, nurturing and nourishing, fiercely protecting, trusting the process, leaning in where needed or staying away if not, riding the tidal wave surges with grace and dignity, knowing the end justifies the means.

The idea that this perimenopausal portal is actually a birth makes perfect sense to my brain. So I’m going to treat it as such..

Like a wild, thrashing, universe opening, moaning, fault line shifting, reckoning, sacred, sensuous, divinity evoking, world changing birth.

So behold🙌🏽 A new life, new skin. The crone, the sage, the seer, the village bitch and the soothsayer all rolled into one🧚🏼‍♀️

#midwifingthroughmidlife #perimeopause #croneera by @valentinabrave

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11 days ago

Wow💥 I just realised there’s 58.6K views on this perimenopause post! (Or is cause of my 80’s baddie rockstar hair!?)

This was my first really honest post about the peri peri spicy-ness zero fuckery club and how it crashes in takes away your last dying inch of tolerance for bullshit.

So fun 😂… by @valentinabrave

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Women have always looked after each other. We have always shared our vulnerabilities and our deepest fears but we did it in the sacred safety of our purpose built containers. Crone tents, rituals, fields, ceremonies.

We were also punished and killed for that.

So of course being out in the open feels scary, feels exposed.

We learned to dilute and silence our voices - along with our wisdom and strength to make it palatable and dim our mighty magic that truly expands the limits of our humanity into vast healing collective power.

I’m still tender as I openly discuss these personally sacred parts of me in this public way but I am genuinely feeling and seeing how it can contribute to the fabric of change as more and more women share and build our own temples of truth and trust.

The messages and comments coming through are so beautiful and raw and brave. I’ll continue to keep being brave to meet them where they are in the deep water of unknowing and searching for the golden sun rays that light the way to the surface. I’m here for it 💛 by @valentinabrave

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A month ago I stood in line at the chemist waiting to pick up two prescriptions. After years of suffering with anxiety, sadness, exhaustion and hopelessness I had surrendered to needing a different kind of help. I am only a few weeks in but I feel fundamentally shifted. I am lighter, clearer and am genuinely accessing real joy. I can’t tell you how that makes me feel after carrying heavy shadows for years.
Hormones and ADHD have rocked my foundations from the beginning and I have been flying blind trying to solve a puzzle in a world that had hidden all the pieces.
When I was little, girls never had ADHD and women’s health has NEVER been comprehensively researched, funded or prioritised until like... yesterday.
I share this because when we heal loudly, hopefully others don’t have to suffer in silently. by @valentinabrave

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Hieeee again. Sharing again. In its essence this vulnerability and visibility is about dedicating to shift and change and growth and movement. Through weeds and mud and darkness and fear to a promise to keep searching for what helps rise and heal. I want to feel joy. I want to feel hope. I know that so many women are in my shoes looking ahead at more questions than answers. So here it is. It’s vulnerable AF but if it helps anyone - it’s worth it. Another share about the ADHD and Perimenopausey things. by @valentinabrave

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18 days ago

Join the Violet Post 😍💌
Editions of The Violet Post from the last 5 months sitting in the beautiful home of collector and dearest friend @valentinabrave 🖤🙏
Captures sent to me via the incredible @ziiancarey
Thank you both for being part of this project since the very beginning 🥹🫂💪🏼💋

If you'd like to join the post you can find 12 month collections, 6 month collections and a monthly subscription all on my website- link is in my bio 💌 by @valentinabrave

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Life update! Today ADHD stands for:
AM DIVINE HAVE DIRECTION ☀️

#vyvanse #adhdinwomen #lateadhddiagnosis #hopeful by @valentinabrave

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a month ago

morning - very early morning singing.
one little verse.

not for praise.
not for views.
for medicine.
just enough to help.

when the tide of sadness feels like it’s breaking the bank there needs to be somewhere for it to flow.

words hold healing - as they hurt as they arrive - and as they leave again.

the bigness of holding onto many truths at once is a human weight hard to quantify.
these words are about two truths.

love’s contradiction all bundled up.

the act of making something from this flooding feeling within me - the instrument’s wood and resonance pushing on my heart and the words forming any kind of sense around the feeling is all this is.

I think it’s worth sharing because polished isn’t always where it’s at.

sometimes just raw dogging the process and sitting in the muck of it is all that we need to get over the hump enough to carry on with the rest of our life - where we bear the weight of the parts of us that don’t get a voice otherwise.

#beingbrave #songwriting #musicmedicine #vulnerabilityisstrength #valentinabrave by @valentinabrave

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