Rae Willingham

18/09/2025

Is there a better way?

08/09/2025

📍Hammersley Gorge, Karijini, WA

Total WTF on how slippery the rocks are 😳
There’s a spa pool up the top of some epically smooth and slidey slabs of stone; good grip is an absolute must.
There’s nothing graceful about getting up or down there, definitely not an outing for your buttkinis 😂

The pool is arctic. Wetsuits were totally needed for an extended time in here. Our 50c op shop wetties won the day here! It took a lot of deep breathing to get me in here, but I’m so glad I did. STUNNING!!!!
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The colours and ripples in the rock are mind blowing. I could have spent hours gazing around.

We stayed at Buddhas free camp which is an absolute winner. You must be fully self contained.
Hammersley is a 5 minute drive from camp, so we went twice!

We celebrated 14 years of marriage ❤️❤️ and a last first tooth 😭😭

5 stars for this place!

07/09/2025

📍Kalamina Gorge, Karijini, WA

We had originally planned to tow into this one as we moved on from the Eco Lodge to Dales Campground and thank sweet baby Jesus and his manger that we didn’t.
The road in is a bit naff, not naff naff, but naff enough to not tow anything in, it’s also not van friendly for parking.

We went on Margot’s Birthday and spent the most amount of time for any of the Gorges here.
It’s GORGEOUS 🥁

The water is a bit meh, there wasn’t a sign not to swim but I was in the fence; but we all swam anyways. Zero diarrhoea to date so we may have dodged a bullet. 😂

Really easy walk, super beautiful.
We adored this one, definitely don’t miss x

07/09/2025

📍Joffre Falls, Karijini, WA

We almost didn’t make this happen after a day of Birthday celebrating the day before, but I’m so glad we made it.

Super quick and easy walk from the Eco Lodge. We left at 6:30am which for us is EPIC!
It’s truly the best time to walk and I so wish we had it in us to make it happen more often 😂

The water was stagnant and not suitable for a dip, but the water in Karijini makes grown men lose their berries in the heat of the day let alone this early!

There’s a bit of silly business to get around the rocks and into that INSANELY amazing amphitheater set up but it’s doable, and I am a right baby when it comes to things like this so don’t take my word that it’s hard 😂

Absolute pinch me moment.

07/09/2025

📍Dales Gorge, Karijini, WA

Best swimming holes in the whole of Karijini. Incredible, amazing, freezing, also wow!

This is definitely one of the easiest walks in Karijini, I think it’s 200 and something stairs down into the gorge, but they’re manmade and easy peasy.
There’s a bit of rock hopping over some soggy bits, but all of it is worth it (although I did middle finger the stairs from the gorge to the rim walk; not manmade, not easy peasy)

We stayed at Dales Campground and walked in from our site.

This was the last stop on our Karijini leg and it was fabulous.
10/10 ✔️ 👌

02/09/2025

My new TRX and I are getting acquainted.
I am PRAYING that this wave of fitness focus lasts, because this cycle of self sabotage is getting old.

I am so over being overweight.
I also don’t really care.
In equal measure.
My head is a jungle of contradictions.
Send help!

After building a following and a career on being a weight loss pin up girl, and then seeing how farked up the weight loss industry makes people, I don’t where to lay my bloody anchor.

Consciously (and IMO, so don’t get your knickers in a twist) I don’t think there is much attractive about my overweight and under strained body. I think it goes against nature and is a byproduct of overwhelm, convenience based living, people profiting off of our poor health, and disconnected Souls.

I want to have a body that is vital, viral and vivacious.
But my subconscious be throwing bombs! And because the subconscious is so sneaky, they kinda sound logical and sane.
“You are more than your body”
“Life is too short to not indulge”
“You are fit and healthy enough”
“Now just isn’t your chapter”
“Your body has achieved and given so much, let it rest into age”
They all sound fine and dandy, and perhaps they are a lil’ bit true; but they don’t FEEL truthful, not deep down.

I KNOW I am better when I’m strong.
I KNOW I feel like s**t when I eat sugar.
I KNOW my body operates better on a lower quantity of food.
I KNOW that a taut body makes me feel sexy AF.
I KNOW my mental clarity is on fire when I’m working out hard.
I KNOW. I KNOW. I KNOW.

But cheese, but cake, but raspberry liquorice twists……..

This isn’t a declaration of change, because all I ever really know is exactly where my feet are right now.
But perhaps it’s a flag laid in the hill of hope?

It’s definitely an intuitive call to get my act together and dig into the fear programs which are keeping me fat and sassy, and not feeling my best.

Ya know??

31/08/2025

📍Cleaverville, Point Samson, Roebourne, Dampier, Karratha, WA.

What a glorious way to welcome in my 38th lap around the sun. Sea, exploration, cheese, crab, steak & pots on the fire 🤤, petroglyphs, wind (wind,wind, wind, wind!!!)

We bloody loved this leg of the trip. I’m not a huge fan of the mining industry, but by golly do they know how to build a playground! I’ve never in my life seen such impressive play equipment. My kids have been entertained for hours.

We stayed at Cleaverville beach camping. Site 142 is glorious with both sunset and sunrise over the point. We saw octopus in the rock pools and some really cool rocks and shells. We caught plenty of fish, albeit teeny ones. I caught a seagull…. That was farked! We also grabbed our very first crab, which was delicious but I really don’t know if they’re worth the effort?!?

We scored 4 perfect fit wetsuits from the Roebourne Op shop for 50c each. I bloody love a good oppy! Ningaloo just got so much better. We have definitely acclimatised to the warm weather, these 18 degree nights are bone chilling 😂

Karratha overflow was a fab lil’ spot. We strolled over the road to watch the local footy, and the girls once again lost themselves to another fab playground.

I’ve got a bit of a sweet spot for this neck of the woods……

28/08/2025

#2 for me! 🍞🥖🥯

What number have you claimed?!

20/08/2025

18/08/2025

Feeling gloriously on track right now, and THANK YOU to all of you who are playing along with Rae builds a Podcast.

It’s been a few months since I spoke about rebuilding my business after a couple of years of hiatus, and so much is happening.

Including.
Rae builds a podcast!

I have so many incredible things on the horizon, and in good time they’ll be coming at ya.
I’m deep in business planning as we speak.

It truly feels so lovely to be back.

Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you x

18/08/2025

Help me choose the Artwork for MY NEW PODCAST?!
What the actual right?!?!?

I have been asked to do a Podcast for YEARS.
So many time, and it finally feels like the right time to do it.

We are going to build this thing together as a team, because this community is the reason that I do everything in my business.

Help me choose the cover art.
In order as you see them here 👇

Give me a 1,2,3,4, or 5 in the comments.

And THANK YOU beyond words for riding the wave of life with me xx

18/08/2025

SO MUCH EXCITING NEWS!!!!
Here all about my latest addition (NOT a baby!!) and get your invite to, what I’m sure will be, a gloriously wonderful conversation with Ricci-Jane Adams of the The Institute for Intuitive Intelligence on Wednesday at 9 am WA time x