Come Home

Nov 21, 2025

NOT ANOTHER REBRAND! LOL. But this one is different. It’s a homecoming.

See, I am a multi passionate. Many of us creatives are - and holistic people, I think they are even more so - so what chance did I have?! I have always struggled to nail down what my thing is, and that therefore extends to what is my name, my brand etc. It’s exhausting - and so distracting from actually doing the work.

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However I think many of you understand, no matter if I called myself shit on a stick (I won’t don’t worry) it’s always still just be me, doing my thing, evolving and taking shape.

We are all, always in flux, anyway, and that’s just a universal truth. That said, I do recognize that one must make sense to others, to reach them and make magic.

Hence, a little brand tweakage. I want to explain why, and what that means. And hopefully share some wisdom and life updates, too.

As I wind down into the last months of 2025 and reflect on my first year as a yoga teacher, out there doing the work of yoga teaching in all its different forms, testing this way and that, seeing what resonates, I have a strong desire to just bring it ALL in, to one, sustainable place, one home, one grounded bank of work, including all the yoga, the writing, the speaking, the retreats. As multi passionate and digressive as it is - and it is, by its very nature. We’re talking about big life themes, here. That shit will diverge and go wide and then, snap, be about the moments, the minutiae, the introspective. It’s hard to contain the message. But contain we must, as we need to make sense of things, right? To attract my people and make impact. But my work will always be wandering, because I am that, and so my work must be that too! We need to be true to ourselves.

Just a quick note to say, I won’t always be talking in this ‘breaking the fourth wall’ way about my business. I simply need to set out my stall as 1) I haven’t been on substack for ages. 2) I am renaming my shit, again. 3) I want to get clear myself and extend that to you, my few but treasured readers!

I want to CREATE. That’s what I do. Whether that’s a yoga class or retreat or a blog post. Historically I made videos and wrote blog posts. I used to be known as a creator on stay at home mum life, and homemaking.

HOME has always been my, well, home.

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In my life, as I started to heal after my depression (that I never massively talked about as said mum blogger) got really bad around the age of 40, I started to bring in wellbeing, and for a while my strapline as Mrs Rachel Brady (my old blogger persona) was Wellbeing & Home. My two greatest passions. Then last year I put down the creating for a while, I got very clear about yoga being my focus, and started that business - Rachel Brady Yoga - and it has been a success! It’s been really hard, though, transitioning from Home stuff to only Yoga stuff. And I lost a lot of people on the way! One in, one out was the trend over on my Instagram (honestly, I don’t really care - not in a mean way - but it’s not how many people you have with you, but whether they are actually engaged with what you offer, is what really matters). But I never felt or feel that RBYoga was ALL of me.

Very recently as part of my yoga business element of what I do - and will continue to do - I ran my first retreat, the picture above is me and my co-host, Cybele Botran (the retreat deserves its own post and I will do that, soon). On said retreat the author of The Sober Diaries (one of the first quit lit books I ever read) and since then many other fictional books, Claire Pooley, came to see us. She did a talk on publishing. It was so interesting, and it woke up another part of myself - the writer, who I had kind of ignored for a while. I remembered that I wanted to share my story in a book form. Clare gave me food for thought on whether I had to do this necessarily as a memoir, or a factual book - or, maybe to consider writing it as a fictional novel. Massive lightbulb moment! What freedom this would allow. It was just the permission I needed to awaken my creativity. I WANTED to write again. A few years back I started - and almost finished actually - a novel. But I didn’t think it was good enough, so I dropped it. I used to describe my writing as ‘cosy novels about hard things’. I kept realizing that I was actually writing a novel about myself - and trying to stop myself doing that. It was about a blogger who moved to the country with her (then) two crazy kids, charming husband, who drank too much and struggled with mental health, all whilst maintaining a pristine image online of the perfect domestic goddess who radiated pure joy (but silently struggled). ‘FFS, why do I keep making this story about me?!’ I used to think, berating myself for not being able to see beyond my own narrative and experiences. And now, I see, maybe I was always trying to write my own story in a way that felt safe and at the same time, expansive.

This realization made me reflect - am I fencing myself in too much by calling my business Rachel Brady Yoga. The answer was yes. I went back and forth between the truths I was faced with: ‘yoga is my life, it’s my passion, my method of living, my hyperfocus, my practice - it’s why I am OK’… and then I would go: ‘but is your truth, your work, in what you share, is it about yoga specifically, or is it about your story: a dysregulated, undiagnosed (then late diagnosed) neurodivergent women self-medicating for years with alcohol to manage her fluctuating energies and out of whack nervous system, then discovering a toolkit, a way of living - yoga and sobriety - and finding peace, at last?’

Yeah, it’s the latter! The yoga, as much as I adore it, is the toolkit. And I share that with you. But the way I share it is my offering, really. A blog post, a podcast episode, a video. Maybe you’ll decide to do coaching or a retreat with me. But really, I can reach most people with words, spoken and written.

Come Home is now the name of this substack and it will be the new name of my podcast, previously called Conscious but Grounded. Honestly, I have spent WAY too much mental time fretting over changing the name of things. Calling it ONE thing is my answer, my call to simplicity. This releases that time to actually create and help the people I want to help - and ultimately, to live my purpose.

Why Come Home? Well, it’s what it’s all about. I learned, through these embodiment practices and by being more in my body day to day, minute to minute, by practicing staying with myself, that I could create a sense of home in my body - and that this is what I needed more than anything else. To feel at peace in myself. So that no matter where I go, what I do, I can come home. To me.

Come Home incorporates all of what I do. It covers all of what I share. When we aren’t coming home to ourselves, we are escaping ourselves. We are abandoning. We run from what we know we’ve got to face. It gives me such a sense of strength, to know I can do anything because I can overcome that sense of fear that used to lead the way. This sense of fear would stop me from doing things, from saying things. It would also make me do things and say things that weren’t from a place of love. But now I know, the fear was trying to protect me. It’s not the enemy.

When you come home to yourself, your fear can take a seat. Fear can stay, but it can chill out. You can reassure fear, I’ve got this. And by actually having this, having your own back, creating boundaries, returning to self, over and over, you build trust with yourself and then fear sees this, and relaxes a bit.

So yes, I just completed by first ever retreat. I came home a few days ago. I am still high off all the love that was in that group. It was beyond words. Today, in a few hours, I begin my first ever online program with yoga, sharing circle and rest. This is a chakra education and experiential program. Both the retreats and the program are called The Embodied Queen. Why? Well because when we become more embodied, when we play, we connect, we move, we breathe - we step into the queens we truly are, beneath all that fear. This doesn’t mean we never do stupid shit, or lose our temper. But it definitely happens less, and when it does, we have compassion for our inner parts that need some love and reassurance.

And guess what? When you step into this more embodied self, and do scary things, they don’t feel scary. They feel expansive. They feel fun. Sure, you have some nerves, but they are more like excitement than dread. When you live your purpose because you have stopped abandoning yourself and started listening inwards to what you really want, really need, and really feel, you start to show up authentically - and that shit is magnetic. People want to know, what’s her secret?

The secret is that I stopped running away and I came home. I started loving myself, all of me, so fiercely that it became truth and my go to and not an effort. I looked at a photo of my young self, aged about 3, on retreat as my amazing co-host Cybele asked us to bring photos of our child selves to help us when doing reparenting work. And I felt such deep maternal love for her. Soft, chubby cheeks, curly blonde pigtails. Looking up at the parent or photographer just out of sight with such innocence and wonder. The child is me - and the person she is looking up to, I like to think, now, is also me. And your childhood photo - go find one, look at it, and direct the love you have for that little one, right back at yourself, now. She’s still in there.

And she wants you to come home.

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Please bear with me whilst I make this mini rebrand make sense, my URLs will redirect soon, my logo etc will be done properly etc in time. I love you. Leave a note to say hi!

Rachel Brady

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