In this inspiring episode of the Self Love Podcast, Kim welcomes Briar Kirkby, founder of Briar Loves Bali Retreats, to share her extraordinary journey of healing, resilience, and transformation. After navigating a difficult divorce and a life changing diagnosis of tonsil cancer, Briar discovered profound healing in Bali, where the island’s culture, spirituality, and deep sense of community helped her recover physically, emotionally and spiritually. She opens up about her cancer treatment, the alternative healing modalities she embraced, and how Bali became a sanctuary that ultimately inspired a whole new chapter of her life.

This conversation explores the intimate women’s retreats Briar now hosts in Bali, designed to help participants slow down, reconnect with themselves and experience genuine healing in a supportive environment. With small group sizes, personalised care, and a focus on rest, connection, and self-discovery, Briar’s retreats offer women a unique opportunity to step away from the busyness of life and return home feeling refreshed, empowered, and deeply connected to themselves.

About Briar:
Briar Kirkby is the founder of Briar Loves Bali Retreats. After navigating divorce, single parenting and a cancer diagnosis in midlife, she found herself completely reassessing the life she had built and the pressure she had placed on herself for so many years.

A trip to Bali at the end of her cancer treatment became a turning point. It gave her space to slow down, reconnect with herself and begin creating a different way of living, one built around rest, simplicity and choosing herself more intentionally.

Today, Briar splits her time between Perth and Bali, where she renovates villas and hosts small group retreats for women who feel stretched too thin and disconnected from themselves. Her retreats focus on creating space for women to slow down, reflect and reconnect, without pressure to constantly perform or keep pushing through.

Briar speaks openly about midlife, resilience, rebuilding after major life change, and the importance of rest, self-love and learning to come back to yourself after difficult seasons of life.

Her definition of Self Love is: Self love is filling my cup. Everyday waking up and finding something positive about my day.

Her favourite quote is: Challenged accepted! Favourite Saying! Come on Bridget!

Links to follow:
Website: www.briarlovesbali.com.au
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briarlovesbaliretreats/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Briar-loves-Bali-Retreats-100089427948890/

Quotes:
My heart has always been there, but I think it is deeper now.
The people there have got this beautiful sense, they have got nothing and they give you so much.
Every time I went back there, it changed me.
I changed how I thought, how I lived, what I wanted, and when I go there, I just feel peace.
They do it with absolute unconditional love.
I think they are born with love. They live with belief and hope.
It is such an honour to go and be in that environment and watch these people truly believe that these blessings are for the better.
Bali is the heart chakra of the planet
We get one shot, that’s it. We don’t get a comeback. This is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
Balinese people held my hand.
Bali has that sense of allowing you to be you. Just you.
I found it for a reason, and I am here for a reason.
Your body actually sends messages and allows me to pass them back to you.
I wasn’t using my voice. I wasn’t speaking my truth.
I was full of shit. I was lying to myself. The more bullshit I believed, I think the sicker I got.
I realised that I wasn’t telling people how I really felt.
I wasn’t being honest about me.
I believe that toxicity in my environment got me to that day.
After cancer and after a nasty divorce, and to find myself again, and to be this happy human that I wake up every day happy to be here.
I am grateful to my ex-husband because he has made me who I am. Because of him, I found myself.
I thought everything was over. So becoming the phoenix and rising to who I am today.
I guarantee you that I am going listen to you.
I want you to leave and feel a little bit lighter.
Love who you are, where you are at, the body you are in
You can change your mind, your path, your priorities, your friends at any time because that is my choice.
Stop being hard on you. Be kind to you.

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