Ellie Bracken, Author at Phi Dang, Human Design Life Coach Sydney

You’re breaking through

There are seasons of life that don’t look like blooming – they look like breaking. Rebirth doesn’t come wrapped in soft light – it comes in the dark, when you’re not sure what comes next. It comes after the letting go, the falling apart, the questions you didn’t want to ask… this is the magic: it teaches you that your power isn’t in perfection, it’s in your willingness to transform. So if you’re feeling cracked open, if it all feels heavier than you expected… trust that this isn’t the end. It’s the middle of your becoming. You’re not broken; you’re breaking through.

This kind of growth won’t ask you to bloom before you’re ready 👀 It will ask you to feel deeply, to trust what’s falling away and to honour the quiet wisdom rising within.

We have times in our lives where the most profound transformations aren’t loud or visible — they’re the quiet rebuilds that happen in the dark, where you become whole again, piece by piece, without needing to rush the light.

Thus there are seasons when your strength isn’t in how brightly you shine, but in how you can hold yourself in the transformation with such love and self compassion. When rest feels more honest than striving.

The breakdowns lead to the breakthroughs.

Always.

It can just take time 🧡

If you’re moving through a season that feels more like breaking than blooming, you don’t have to do it alone 🌻 Let’s walk through the unknown together — begin gently rebuilding from the inside out and if you’re looking for help, support and guidance. I can help you through 1:1 coaching and/or a human design reading. Message me, let’s chat!

For the women whose love knows no end

For the women whose love knows no end, whose hands hold the world and whose hearts beat with a devotion that defies time and space. We appreciate you. To the mothers, soon-to-be mothers, those longing to be mothers, mothers in spirit and the women who nurture: your love doesn’t ask for recognition, yet it is felt deeply in every gesture, every word, every sacrifice. You give without hesitation and in your enduring strength, you shape the world around you. In your embrace, the world feels safe; in your words, there is wisdom that heals. Your sacrifices are the foundation upon which many stand, yet, you ask for nothing in return. Today, we celebrate you – not just for what you give but for who you are. Your love is a quiet revolution, shaping lives in ways that will never be fully known, but always felt. So if no one’s told you today: thank you. You deserve to be honoured, not just with flowers or cards, but with real recognition of how your love is a gift that transforms the world and the legacy you create will continue to ripple through generations. Happy Mother’s Day.

Happy Mothers Day 🤍🌸 There’s something sacred about the way women love. It’s not just care — it’s devotion. An energy that extends far beyond roles or titles, reaching into the heart of those in their presence. On Mother’s Day, we honour that essence.

The women who hold space, who listen between the lines, who sense what’s needed before it’s ever spoken.

You don’t have to be a mother to embody it. You just have to lead with your heart.

This day is for the ones who are healing ancestral lines while raising the next generation. The ones doing the deep inner work while still showing up for others. The ones who walk through their own storms, and somehow manage to be a safe place for others to land.

You don’t have to get it perfect. You don’t have to match someone else’s version of motherhood or womanhood. What you offer: your presence, your energy, your care counts in ways that ripple far beyond what you see.

Thank you — I see you; we see you 💐

Embody your highest self

Life has a funny way of giving you exactly what you need – just not always in the package you asked for. You might want ease but life hands you a challenge to build your strength. You might crave certainty, but life gives you mystery so you can learn to trust. It’s not punishment. It’s preparation. Real growth doesn’t always arrive wrapped in comfort. There’s a deeper wisdom at play, even when things feel unfair or off track. The detour, the delay, the breakup, the breakdown – they carry the medicine your soul quietly needs but the ego resists. It’s when you stop resisting what is, you begin to see the gifts in what’s unfolding. Life isn’t being cruel; it’s being precise. It’s shaping you for what you’re truly here to embody. Your highest self.

Want is often shaped by ego, comfort or comparison 🫣 We want what looks good, feels easy or matches the timeline we think we should be on.

But need?

Need speaks to your evolution. It challenges you to stretch. It invites you to meet parts of yourself you didn’t know you had.

That’s why what you need can feel so inconvenient —because it’s not here to soothe you, it’s here to shape you.

You’re not behind. You’re not off path. You’re just in the part of the story that doesn’t make sense… yet.

And that’s okay…

Keep listening. Keep your faith in the bigger picture.

One day, you’ll look back and see how it all added because what you need was finding its way to you even amongst the chaos, drama and resistance of your mind.

Life has an intelligence itself beyond our understanding and comprehension 💫

Looking for support and guidance in your life? Someone to talk to and help you. I’d love to help you — I offer 1:1 coaching, human design readings and retreats. Message me to chat further 🧡

Your life is meant to be felt

Your heart is not here to be reasonable. It is not here to be efficient, to make the right choice on paper or to fit neatly into timelines or expectations. It beats for what is real – for what moves you, stirs you, softens you. It bets for what is alive. Even when your mind is busy justifying what makes sense, your heart keeps tugging at the quiet, inconvenient truth. It knows when you’re pretending. It knows when you’re settling. Even so, it will keep pulsing until you remember that your life is meant to be felt.

Your heart doesn’t speak in bullet points or spreadsheets — it speaks in longing, in goosebumps, in tears you weren’t expecting.

It pulls you toward moments that don’t always look logical but feel undeniably right.

The kind of love that doesn’t fit your checklist.

The career path that no one understands but lights you up inside.

The pause you crave even when the world tells you to keep going.

When you stop silencing your heart in favour of what you should or what’s so called right… you make space for something far more powerful: your deepest truth that vibrates through your entire being.

You are not here to simply manage your life — you are here to live it. Not to tick boxes but to be alive. To be human.

If you’re ready to tune in more to your heart and live a life that your heart yearns for and beats blissfully for — I’d love to help. I offer 1:1 coaching, human design readings and retreats 🧡

Unlocking Unlearning – Episode 2 💫

🔑 They say healing your inner child means digging up your deepest wounds, facing your shadows and doing the heavy emotional lifting. Yes, there’s a time, place and need for this but that’s not the whole story and honestly that version of healing can scare people off before they even begin.

Here’s the truth no one tells you: inner child healing can be light. Playful. Creative. 🤸🏼‍♀️

Some of the biggest breakthroughs I’ve seen with coaching clients didn’t come from emotional excavations — they came from laughter, imagination and doing things their inner child actually enjoyed.

Healing doesn’t always look like shadow work. Sometimes, it looks like dancing in your lounge room, finger painting or making up a silly game for no reason at all.

So here’s a question to sit with today: What’s one fun thing your inner child would love to do with you this week? Start there. Let that be your medicine.

I do things differently in my world 🥳 if you’re ready for different let’s work together — I offer 1:1 coaching 💃🏼 (life, business, career, dating etc not dancing 😂) human design readings + retreats. Message me for more info — let’s chat 💬

You’re arguing with your expansion

You’re not stuck, you’re just arguing with your expansion.

That tension you feel? That restless swirl of frustration and doubt? It’s not failure. It’s not regression. It’s the resistance that rises right before you grow.

Expansion rarely feels like freedom at first — it often feels like discomfort, like everything you thought was solid is bending, cracking, asking to change…

Of course it feels tight. You’re outgrowing an old version of yourself.

What you call “stuck” is often just the part of the path where your soul and your conditioning are negotiating terms.

One wants safety. The other wants truth.

In that negotiation, you might pause, overthink, loop— but even the looping, spiraling is part of the work.

You’re gathering the courage to stop betraying what you know, to say yes to what’s calling you forward even when it doesn’t come with guarantees.

You don’t need to force a breakthrough.

This isn’t a dead end — it’s a threshold.

The moment you stop arguing with your expansion is the moment everything starts to flow.

Ready for your next level of expansion? Let’s go — I offer 1:1 coaching, human design readings and retreats. I’d love to work together, apply on my website or message me to set up a call to chat 🧡

Not every step forward is visible

Not every step forward will be visible – trust the unseen growth. There are times when it feels like you’re standing still, like nothing is changing and it’s easy to doubt whether any progress is being made… Growth isn’t always loud or obvious. Sometimes it’s happening in the quiet moments, the small invisible shifts within your heart and mind. The most profound growth often happens beneath the surface – out of sight, in the spaces where you are becoming compassionate and patient with yourself, changing your ways of thinking. The visible changes will come. Keep going, even when it feels like nothing is happening. The changes are already underway.

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean you’re not growing… 👀 There will be seasons when it feels like you’re standing still, when the shifts are so subtle they seem nonexistent.

It’s in those moments that doubt creeps in, whispering that nothing’s moving.

Growth doesn’t always shout.

Sometimes it hums quietly beneath the surface, unfolding in your thoughts, softening your heart and reshaping the way you see the world.

You’re doing important work in the stillness… the quiet.

You’re unlearning, reimagining, creating space for new patterns to emerge.

It may not look like much on the outside, but inside, roots are forming. Just like a tree that anchors itself before it reaches toward the sky, you’re preparing for your next expansion.

So if you’re not seeing clear signs yet, be gentle with yourself and your heart.

The transformation is already in motion. The quiet days, the reflective pauses, the inner shifts — they all matter.

Trust the process.

Even when it feels like nothing is happening, everything is happening.

Ready to have growth internally and externally? I got you — I offer 1:1 coaching, human design readings and retreats. Message me for more details 🧡

Sometimes messy is the medicine

Sometimes messy is the medicine.

It’s in the chaos that we find the courage to let go of what no longer serves us. The spills, the tangles, the moments when everything feels like it’s falling apart — these are the places where growth takes root. When life is unpolished and raw, it’s a reminder that healing doesn’t always come in neat packages or perfect plans. Sometimes, it’s the mess that breaks us open, allowing us to feel, to process, to shed old skin and emerge stronger. In the mess, there is freedom. It’s the space where you stop pretending to have it all together, where you allow yourself to be human. It’s the cluttered room of your heart that needs sorting out, the unraveling that leads to understanding, the mistakes that become wisdom. Don’t be afraid of the messy moments. Let them teach you. Let them remind you that even when things aren’t perfect, they are exactly what you need to grow. Sometimes, messy is exactly what the soul needs to heal, to shift, to evolve.

Allow it to be. Seriously don’t fix it. Don’t tie it in a bow. Don’t rush it. For now. Why? Sometimes the most radical act of healing isn’t found in trying to clean everything up — but in giving yourself permission to sit in the middle of it, exactly as it is.

The discomfort, the questions, the not sure not yet knowing… these are fertile places. The fertile void. This is where the old starts to crumble, and the real transformation begins.

Life rarely moves in neat lines. Though we’ve been conditioned to think it works that way. Real growth often looks like chaos at first. If you can breathe inside the uncertainty instead of running from it, if you can stop trying to rescue yourself from feeling “too much”… you might just meet a deeper part of you.

The part that doesn’t need to be polished to be powerful.

The wholeness that is being human and sometimes the mess is the way.

If you’re ready to stop fighting the mess and start finding yourself inside it — this is the work I guide you through. DM me or hit the link in bio to explore 1:1 coaching with me 🧡

Unlocking Unlearning 💫 Episode 1

🔑 STOP auditioning for a role you already own 🛑 you are not the extra, a stand in or an option.

You’re the one the story was written for.
The one the audience is screaming for.
The one who walks into the room and knows they belongs — even if your knees are shaking.

Waiting for permission, holding back, trying to be agreeable, digestible, non…disruptive. Hoping someone would choose you. Approve of you. Pick you for the lead…

But here’s the truth: you don’t need to be chosen. You are the main character. The role is already yours — you just have to stop playing small and step into it.

Main character energy is about owning who you are naturally (hello human design!) It’s about being unforgettable because you know who you are.

It’s about taking up space without apology, and making choices that are true to you — not what’s expected.

We have been conditioned to downplay, to wait, to keep the peace. The real work? Unlearning all of that. Reclaiming your voice. Asking yourself, “What would the audience scream for me to do right now?” Then doing it — scared, messy, real.

If you’re done living on the sidelines of your own life… that’s where I come in. 1:1 coaching, human design reading or come on a retreat (the vibe of the recharge & renew retreat in Bali this August — only 1 room remains!!) Message me for more details.

love & positivity ✨ phi

📖 The Great Unlearning
🎧 Grow Through It Podcast with Phi Dang

There’s time to shift your story

Can you believe a third of the year is already over? 😳 If you’re feeling like you blinked and suddenly April happened and it’s now come May, you’re not alone — but this moment can either be a wake up call or another scroll past.

What have the first 4 months shown you about what’s really working… and what’s just been noise?

This isn’t about judging yourself for where you are — it’s an invitation to actually pause. To zoom out, to breathe, to get honest.

You’re not behind. You’re not late.

This isn’t about panic — it’s about power. You’ve still got 8 full months to shift your story, set a new tone and show up with intention.

If you’re craving clarity, accountability and soulful momentum, life coaching might be your next right step. Let’s chat, message me 🧡

Ellie Bracken