This week, the microphone gets turned around as Mel sits down with our very own Nat for the latest instalment of The Local Women Next Door.

It was an interesting reflection for me to move through the breadcrumbs that led me to where I am today.

My love for community, connection and creating spaces for presence, has been a pretty incredible journey really.

As I trace my path to the work I do today, it became pretty clear that the clues were there long before She Breathes existed.

From teaching and social work to motherhood, music, learning and a lifelong love of bringing people together, I share how seemingly separate parts of my life eventually begin to make sense as one story. At the centre of it all has always been people, understanding them, creating connection, asking good questions and making space for people to show up as they really are.

Breathwork arrived later and became another piece of the puzzle. Not as a way to "fix" women, but as a way to slow things down enough to hear what's really there.

We talk about why so many thoughtful, self-aware women can know themselves incredibly well and still feel like they're somehow not enough. And what might become possible when women have spaces where they don't have to perform, prove, hold everything together or continually make themselves the next project.

There's also a beautiful conversation about growth and how sometimes we don't realise how much we've changed until we turn around and see how far we've come.

Ultimately, this is a conversation about community, curiosity, self-trust and possibility and how my own winding path has led me to create the kind of spaces I've always needed for myself. Places where women can breathe, speak honestly, connect deeply and come home to themselves.

Live your Passion

Nat and Mel

You can find Nat and Mel here:

https://www.instagram.com/grabyourkeysandgo/

NAT: https://www.instagram.com/shebreathesnow/

NAT: https://shebreathes.as.me/BreathingRoom

MEL: https://www.instagram.com/splashoflifephotography/

MEL: https://www.instagram.com/the_home_yogi/