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This is a sanctuary for starry-eyed souls who want to build a more beautiful world and enjoy being human.
Let's rock this apocalypse
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Let's rock this apocalypse
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Let's rock this apocalypse ✦ Let's rock this apocalypse ✦
You don’t fit in the “normal” world. A “regular job” is not an option any more, but your soul-powered work isn’t landing the way you imagined.
You feel things more strongly than other people do, so intense moments leave deeper scars. You’ve spent a small fortune on healing, but your nervous system still gets stuck in old trauma loops and freeze patterns that never end. And your family can be a nightmare.
You see news of the latest assassination and wonder if the mission you came here for is really too much for you, again. It’s hard to imagine there could ever be a place where you feel truly at home on this planet, surrounded by people who actually get you and have your back.
The truth is, your soul’s mission here is more than healing your own trauma and ancestral lineage…
Your soul's mission is to live with delight
Your soul's mission is to live with delight
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While doing all the healing work is part of your mission - it’s not the whole point of being here…
Delight is the point of being human… whatever “delight” looks like to you.
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Thing is, many starry-eyed humans are used to living without delight.
TinyBrave is here to help you change that.
I lived without delight for years. To change that, I had to stop processing trauma by talking about it… and start paying attention to what was actually happening in my body. Body awareness is now my first response when something glitches. And I had to practice saying no, to make more space for delight.
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Meet Belinda
Hey lovely human! My name is Belinda Joy Noakes. And I thrive on helping other humans to make friends with delight.
After 20+ years of training and working with a lot of different healing tools, I’ve had to “unlearn” most of it. Here’s what’s working for me now:
Tiny - the smallest possible shift in attention
Brave - towards your body and what’s happening right now
Moments - in the event stream of Life…
daisychained together into a life filled with delight
I created TinyBrave and 30 Days of Delight to share this approach with you.
When it hurts just to exist in this world, delight can feel like an impossible dream. But when you practice microdosing the difficult stuff, your experience of life here transforms.
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Ready to rediscover delight?
My Story
Like you, the story of my life so far includes fear and courage, love and loss, rage and delight. It traverses deep grief and profound joy.
While my mother was pregnant with me, my parents were in a serious car accident. My brain and nervous system got wired in some interesting ways, but I didn’t even begin to understand that until I was 40 years old.
I spent my early childhood on a 40,000 acre sheep and cattle station in North West Queensland, Australia. My early memories involve UHF radios, horses, Blue Heelers and kelpies, snakes, endless stars and many hours spent on dusty outback roads in the back seat of our Holden station wagon, listening to Charley Pride and Willie Nelson and Boney M on cassette.
When I was 16 my younger sister died after a long fight with leukemia. We all did our best, but no-one in our family knew how to deal with loss like that. So for the next 20 years, I just kept the grief locked away inside.
The year I turned 30, I started working for Microsoft. After 10 years working inside the corporate machine in Australia, Singapore and the UK, my adrenals collapsed. And I decided to do whatever it took to get to the bottom of why I had pushed myself so hard, for so long… and lost my soul in the process.
My search for answers took me from ice bathing in the Ganges outside Rishikesh, to shitting my pants in the mountains of Montana with only my soul for company, to meditating with a wizard monk in Myanmar while he insisted I had a lifetime as a long-dead Burmese queen. I burned through a few passports, tangled with several charismatic narcissists, and tried so many different healing modalities I can’t remember them all.
Through all of that, I kept accumulating practitioner certifications and working with clients. (It turns out that hypervigilance helps make you very good at noticing and sensing what other people need.)
It's taken me 20 years to understand hyper-sensitivity… and I’m still learning all the time.
For so long, I couldn't figure out why my body and my life still felt so painful, even after doing SO MUCH INNER WORK! I was convinced there must be something seriously wrong with me. Learning to recognise when I was out of my body has changed everything.
Learning about the markers of high masking autism helped too. Before that, I didn’t realise how much discomfort I’d been suppressing and how hard I’d been working at pretending to be “normal”. (I’m doing that much less these days.)
The final piece - which brings us to the present day - was my decision to stop seeing myself as broken and start focusing on delight instead.
And get this - Joy is my middle name, which suggests that my purpose was written on the label this whole time!
Sometimes the answers you seek are hiding in plain sight.
Where you'll find me
Where you'll find me
Where you'll find me Where you'll find me
When I’m not in my home office doing sessions or group calls, you may find me…
Being Auntie Bel and watching my niece and nephew playing sports or music.
Watching fantasy, sci-fi or spy-thriller shows (like Stranger Things and Reacher - or possibly Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the 6th time).
Walking on an almost-deserted beach.
Studying energetic practices and role playing with my favourite alter egos.
Reading fantasy fiction and cosmic non-fiction (like Robin Hobb’s Elderlings series and Laura Knight-Jadczyk’s Wave series).
Obsessing over bathroom finishes and Colourbond swatches for my tiny house build.
Getting my hands in the dirt learning to grow food and medicinal herbs.
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I’m done hiding.
Qualifications
I have a heap of practitioner certifications, but I don’t use most of those tools any more. I’m currently studying neuro-somatic processing.
I’ve had the shit kicked out of me by life, repeatedly. Every time, I rise.
I love a research deep dive. After my corporate career ended, I got a PhD in geopolitical and exopolitical conspiracies. Current fascinations include energy alchemy, psychological warfare, astrology, homeopathy, astronomy (hello 3I/ATLAS), community design and guerilla permaculture.