Keith Brendan

Questioning the way we’re told to live.

Building a different life on 44 acres. 🌿

Family • Freedom • Food • Ceremony

🧡 Remembering how to live.

📍 Keith’s Gate | NSW

09/11/2026

When I look back I realise I’ve always wanted to live a little differently.

Even as a kid I questioned things, hated school, wanted to be homeschooled, and travelling overseas from a young age showed me there were so many different ways to live.

In 2017, Carol and I started dreaming about buying land, growing our own food and raising our kids differently, and then in 2022 my first deep ceremony opened up a whole other world and sparked a desire to start sharing these kinds of experiences with others.

Fast forward to today and here we are, living on 44 acres, raising our kids, growing food, holding gatherings and still figuring plenty of stuff out along the way.

I guess that’s why I share it all, because maybe something from our journey will remind someone else that there’s more than one way to live, and they’re free to find their own.

And if you’ve been following along and feel like coming out to experience some of what we’re building here for yourself, you’re more than welcome!

Come along to one of our breathwork gatherings, or spend a few days here for a private three night immersion at Keith’s Gate.

You can find more information through www.the-healing-breath.org or just send me a message.

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Carol | Homestead Mum of 4

07/11/2026

I just want my dad.

F**k me i idn’t expect to be saying that today! 😬🤣😭

My dad left before I was born. Even denied I was his after a DNA test proved otherwise.

I saw him twice when I was 13. The last time I did, he told me he was going overseas and he’d contact me and arrange to see me in two weeks.

I’m 38 now…. Still waiting on those two weeks lol.

This AM my mum sent me a video of him singing at a school reunion last year.

Watched it this morning and had a bit of a cry. Didn’t expect that either.

I noticed the guitarist had commented on the video, so I reached out hoping he could help us reconnect. Coz for a number of years I’ve been looking for someone that knows him and well today it fell in my lap.

I wasn’t expecting much, but there was a little bit of hope.

Maybe we’d have a chat, hear each other’s stories. Maybe just have a coffee. Who knows.

He passed my message on but couldn’t get permission to share his details.

And that actually fkn hurt.

My heart sank. My stomach knotted. Ended up crying in Carol’s arms.

I’m 38, a dad of four. Carol and I celebrated 15 years of marriage yesterday. We’re building a life on the land, chasing dreams and navigating all the stuff that comes with it.

Yet here I am, still just wanting my dad.

Not to make up for 38 years. Just to know him. Ask him why. Hear his story and tell him mine.

Maybe give him a hug.

After sitting with it, I sent one last message asking the fella to tell my dad I love him, forgive him and wish him well.

And I felt relief.

Who knows if I’ll ever hear from him.

Anyways I know there’s plenty of men (and of course ladies) out there who grew up without their dads.

I’m curious, does that feeling ever really go away?

Do you still wish you could have that connection, even after all these years?

Would love to hear your stories.

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06/11/2026

It’s always sold to us as being for our own good, isn’t it?

Our safety. Our protection. Catching criminals. Keeping the community safe… all the buzz words.

And most people go “yeah righto sounds good.”

But where does it stop?

We’ve had facial recognition cameras trialled in Perth and now Sydney is looking at AI surveillance cameras.

I get it. People want to feel safe…

I value my freedom and my privacy.

And I don’t think we should have to keep giving up more of one to supposedly get more of the other.

It’s not just about cameras either. It’s about how easily we accept these things when they’re introduced a little bit at a time.

Something that would’ve caused outrage 20 years ago barely raises an eyebrow today. Conditioned much?

We def need to start asking a few more questions instead of just accepting everything we’re told is good for us.

At what point does keeping people safe become keeping people under surveillance?

And who’s watching the ones doing the watching?

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30/10/2026

He’s a pretty wise little fella too. 🍄🤣

Sometimes the greatest teachers come in the most unexpected forms.

And if you’ve been feeling the call to explore a little deeper, perhaps it’s time we had a chat.

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30/10/2026

I’ve been thinking about the world we live in and how quickly things can change.

None of us really knows what tomorrow holds.

But one thing I do know is that we’re not meant to do life alone.

We’re pretty fortunate out here. We’ve got land, water, food growing, animals, generate our own power and have a lot of space to breathe.

And while we’re building all of this for our family, I’ve always known it was never meant to be just for us.

So I wanted to put this out there.

If life ever gets a little sideways and you find yourself needing a hand, somewhere to catch your breath or simply someone to turn to, please reach out.

I can’t promise we’ll have all the answers or that we can help everyone.

But where we can, we will. Always.

That’s what community is supposed to be about right?

Looking out for one another.

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29/10/2026

I look around and I really do think as a collective we have made life a hell of a lot more complicated than it needs to be.

Imagine if we stripped it all back to what we actually need.

A roof over our heads, food in our bellies, clean water and good people around us. That’s it right there…. Everything else is a bonus.

We could grow food, trade and barter for what we need, share our skills and help each other out. But that’s boring right? Not enough stimulation for our ever needy conditioned minds.

And whatever little money we did need, we wouldn’t have to slave away 5, 6, 7!!! days a week to earn it. You could probably work a day or two and be sweet..

Or better yet, find something you absolutely love doing and figure out a way to make a living from it.

That’s how I feel about creating and holding spaces for people. Giving people the opportunity to stop, slow down, go within and peel back the veil. With nothing else to do but simply be, to exist. How rare and beautiful that is.

I fkn love it! It’s not “work” to me, it’s just life.

Of course in the world we currently live in I need to monetise it. I’ve got a family to feed and bills to pay like everyone else.

But ultimately my mission is to create an ecosystem here on the land where I don’t have to charge much, if anything at all.

Where people can come together, share what they have, trade, barter, contribute in whatever way they can and EVERYONE benefits.

I dunno, I just feel there’s a much simpler way to live than constantly chasing money to consume and buy more s**t we probably don’t even need.

Anyways there’s my tangent for the day. All because I was standing here painting the cornices of Graces room haha.

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28/10/2026

Three coats on the walls ✅
First coat on the skirting boards and door frames ✅

Now we wait for it to dry so we can go again. 💪

I’m loving how it’s all turning out! 💜

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27/10/2026

Sometimes we get so caught up in everything we think we need to do, everywhere we need to be and everything we think we need to become, that we forget to actually enjoy the life we’re living.

✋ I’m guilty of it too! All the tabs open, the never ending list of things to do, always something else that needs doing. 😂

But really, sometimes we just need to slow down.

To play. To laugh. To feel the sun on our skin. To enjoy the little things.

The more I sit with this, the more I realise life isn’t something we’re trying to get to.

It’s happening right here, right now.

And I guess that’s what it is all about. The journey, the experiences, the moments along the way.

Being ourselves, doing a little good where we can and hopefully leaving the world a little better than we found it.

Anyways just a little reminder for whoever needs it today. Myself included!

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https://the-healing-breath.org/

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