#169 Reclaiming Control: Heal from Within and Rewrite Your Story with Kel-Anne Brandt

What if everything you need to reclaim your life is already within you?

In this inspiring episode of Healing Through Love, Rose Davidson speaks with singer, mentor, and wellness coach Kel-Anne Brandt—a woman who not only survived emotional abuse and coercive control but emerged stronger, wiser, and more grounded than ever before. 

Kel-Anne opens up about how personal trauma led her to a breakthrough: healing begins from within. Through powerful mindset work, emotional resilience, and cellular-level wellness, she reclaimed her life—and now teaches others how to do the same. 

In this episode, you’ll explore:

✨ How our thoughts shape our reality and how gratitude can transform your mindset
 ✨ The six intellectual faculties—imagination, will, intuition, and more—and how they influence your results
 ✨ Why true healing isn’t just emotional or mental—it’s also physical, and it begins at the cellular level 

Whether you’re facing trauma, feeling stuck, or simply seeking more vitality and clarity, this conversation will remind you of your power. Kel-Anne doesn’t just talk about transformation—she embodies it. 

From her celebrated music career to her passionate coaching practice, she proves that healing is possible when we commit to doing the inner work. You’ll leave this episode feeling empowered, grounded, and ready to write a new chapter. 

Are you ready to reclaim control and transform from the inside out?

 Then this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

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Transcript

Intro | 00:00
The Healing Through Love podcast with Sharlene Lynch and Rose Davidson. 

 Sharlene | 00:08
Welcome to the Healing Through Love podcast. I'm Sharlene Lynch and together we're shining a light on hope, resilience and transformation in the journey to end domestic violence. Each week we bring you inspiring interviews with change makers, survivors, advocates and experts who are making a difference in the lives of those affected by domestic and family violence. Welcome to the Whether you're on this healing journey yourself or you're supporting someone who is, this is a safe space. For powerful stories, practical tools and heartfelt inspiration, let's heal through love together. Today I've got a very exciting guest. We've got Kel-Anne. She is a seasoned speaker and recording artist with over 30 years of experience. She doesn't look that old to have 30 years of experience. She must have started singing when she was two and multiple records across Australia, the UK and the USA. Alongside her music career, she is trained wellness and mindset coach and Passionate about helping others transform from the inside out. This is the way we like to do business. Drawing from her own journey of overcoming challenges and her professional training. Kel-Anne blends mindset, mastery, emotional resilience and cellular wellness to guide people into lasting healing empowerment. That's exactly the words we love to hear. Using proven tools like NLP, So that's neuro-linguistic programming. Six intellect factors. We've got to dive in and find out about that. The gratitude practice. She helps others shift their mindset, unlock potential and create meaningful change with heart-led approach. Kel-Anne empowers others to reclaim their inner strength, embrace holistic healing and live with purpose, vitality and confidence. Hello and welcome. 

 Kel-Anne | 02:09
Thank you, Sharlene. Nice to meet you.
 Sharlene | 02:14
It's so great to have you and thank you so much for joining us for this podcast. So wow, what a journey and the outcome is amazing, but can you reach back and tell us a little bit about your journey? 

 Kel-Anne | 02:28
Ugh. Okay, so it's been a while. And thank you for the compliment of I must have been too when that happened. Bye. I'm having fun and have all my children where I always say, that's two when I had them. 
 So thank you. Yeah, so... I won't go back too far because there's nearly 68 years worth to go back to. But I, I came from a home where my parents divorced when I was a baby. And lived with My mom and my grandmother and my great-great-grandmother, my grandfather and... Then my mother remarried. And when I was about five and then when I was about 16. Things started to go a little bit. Downhill at home. And due to, you know, what was going on at home, I ended up meeting my first husband. 
 So he was older. And I was 16, I'd left school and I was working. And I was just, you know, swept away with it. My mother let us get engaged and But I think she realized, no, I'd either come to my senses or we'd end up marrying later on, but it ended up we ended up, you know, getting married and I didn't have to get married as they used to say in those days, I wasn't pregnant or anything. But I ended up getting married and Honestly, that 16-year-old girl, if only she knew. 
 So he would, he was a drinker. And I learnt the hard way. Not to argue with him when he was drinking. 
 So basically, He was 21, I was 16. And We had, I ended up having two children. 
 So that was the gift from that marriage was my two beautiful children. But there was violence, especially with the drinking. 
 You know, I was... I was alone. There was a lot of as women in the middle of domestic violence know it's not just the physical abuse, it's the mental abuse. Because I was so young, so immature emotionally. And I was believing what he was saying about me, you know, that I was, you know, useless basically and just everything I did wasn't right and whatever. And I really had no confidence and such low self-esteem at the time. I didn't even know what self-esteem was. It all came to a head when my daughter was a baby and He'd we went next door to a neighbor's and he'd been working came and back and he just started drinking at this party. And I was breastfeeding my daughter at the time. And I left the party to, you know, to feed her and everything and he was just really getting stuck into the alcohol And anyway, I was questioning him about some things that he was doing. Which were quite embarrassing at this party. He lost it with me. And next minute I'm being dragged along the floor by my hair. And, yeah, it was really bad because he always used to say before that, when I punch you in places, people aren't going to see the bruises. No one's going to know. But this time he lost it. And I had bruises all over me. And so I hid in the house for a few days. Because I didn't want people to see the bruises because I felt it was my fault. I shouldn't have argued with him when he'd been drinking, you know, all this stuff. And by this time I was my early twenties. And... My neighbour... Came and I forgot about the bruises on my arm because it was warm weather and I didn't have. My arm cabin and she saw you know, the bruising and everything. She took me to a doctor. The doctor said I'd have to, you know, they were going to put me on Valium because I was a bit of a nervous wreck. They, they were going to nurse that I should press charges and all this sort of stuff and Yeah, I was too scared to because... Every other time I tried to get away from him, he threatened to hurt the children. He even held my son over a... An embankment one time and said, if you don't get in the car, I'm going to drop him when he was a baby. 
 So I was really frightened and scared of what he was capable of doing. I didn't want to put him to the test. 
 So. Anyway, I didn't report it and I ended up, you know, continuing on, but we, you know, we sort of separated at times, but, you know, we get back together and all this sort of thing in house separations, because he wouldn't leave and I couldn't leave the kids. And so it was always, Yeah. Very... Traumatic, you know, for 17 years I put up with it and then I finally got away after 17 years. But when I was going through all that, I ended up being sent for treatment because I... One day I'd fed my daughter and I put her down. And I started to feel like I was having a heart attack or a stroke or something. And I was at a friend's house and they rang an ambulance and It ended up being a panic attack. And that was the first time I'd ever had one. I didn't know what they were then. I knew that I'd had you know, bad nerves and everything with what had happened to me as a child. 
 And then And, you know, so on. So I, you know, my grandmother used to say that I was a nervous child, but I learned later there was a reason for the way my body was reacting to things. But it took a lot of therapy. 
 So, yeah. The therapist and one of the things he suggested. Because he knew that, you know, my mum was a singer. He knew that I used to sing in choirs and things like that when I was a kid, and that I could sing. And He suggested that I get up on stage and I sing. 
 So it, that. Therapy, I mean, when I first got up on stage and saying, you would have thought that there was an earthquake, you know, it was ridiculous. I was just shaking so much that it ended up being a 30 plus, nearly 40 year earthquake. 
 You know, recording, singing recording careers. So Absolutely. That was the opportunity that came out of that. And that helped me heal. But singing is a two-way street. I'm still healing when I sing. It really does raise your vibration. And I'm helping the audiences as well. They always say, I felt such a healing today. 
 So I'm not singing spiritual songs, but it's just music itself. Excuse me, I was going to get a tissue. I love it. I'm not crying. It's just it's cold here. 
 Yeah. No. 

 Sharlene | 09:59
I love it. I love it. Wow. What a journey. That's fantastic. And I must confess, I do love to sing, but usually in the shower, no one else can hear or at the very front row at church where I can just sing and there's no one in front of me. And I do bellow it out, but I can't keep it true. But I do love how singing makes us feel, especially when you're singing something that's at a high frequency that makes you feel good. I love it. Wow, so that's a huge journey from where you were to where you are now. And now on top of that, you've obviously lent into different healing modalities. And now you've come full circle and helping others to move forward. I know that our audience would be curious. Yes, that first step was getting you to sing, but inside, what was the really first step for you to sort of see that this was not supporting you anymore and that you had other choices? Was it the singing came first or did you make the choice first? 

 Kel-Anne | 11:01
The choice to sing. 

 Sharlene | 11:02
No, the choice to be in a different place and be a different person and turn up differently and not let that stop you from moving forward. 

 Kel-Anne | 11:14
Yeah, it was a gradual process. And because I was getting that therapy, they were doing hypnotherapy. And so, He was actually the therapist in the sessions. Would be feeding into me about self-esteem. And about doing things that I love to do and all this sort of stuff. It was a gradual process. It wasn't until... And I used to think once the kids have grown up, then I'd be able to get out. And I kept staying. 
 You know, and try, I tried really hard for that marriage to work, but it was just, even when. You know, he stopped sort of hitting me. He would rise up as if he was going to. 
 So that fear was always there, but there was still that emotional fear. Abuse happening. And it was something that happened with my son. That instigated me thinking, I'm staying because of the kids, but it's not doing them any favours. 
 You know, a therapist of my son's. Said, you know, To me, it's affecting... Them because of the temper this man had and So, you know, I've, I eventually got out of that situation. And started to to move forward separately. It wasn't an easy time. It was a very tumultuous time. And there was a time when, Gap. Where the kids weren't with me, even though they were teenagers, they weren't with me because they had school, they had this, that and the other. And even though I was around them, I wasn't, they weren't with me. And I found that extremely hard. And I hit rock bottom again. And I said to my mum, she rang me and I said, mum, I can't cope with this. 
 You know, I'm trying really hard to. But I'm just so drawn to walk out onto the balcony. And I'm feeling drawn to it and it's frightening me. She rang her doctor. Who was nearby. He rang. What are they called? It was in Parramatta. 
 Anyway, it was not Lifeline, but it was an emergency thing. Within 15 minutes, there was a lady knocking on my door. To come and help me. And her therapy. Helped me get through that. 
 So I learned more tools. So I learned tools from the first therapist. Then I learned tools from this angel of a lady that came and saved me. And... There was a whole lot of things. Actually, there was another tool I got. Just before, no, it would have been just after the singing part of it. The therapist that I had then, had prescribed Serapax and Valium for because that's what they did in those days. It was like, here's a script, this will calm you down. 
 And then they talk to you, whereas I really needed... Something a little bit different. But anyway, that's how it was. I think there are doctors that do that today as well. 
 So then I wanted to get off them because I didn't want to be addicted to those things. So I took myself off to a place in Newcastle to get off those. They gave me some tapes, which actually helped me. 
 And then this lady came in. Years later and gave me another lot of tapes and one of them was Louise Haight. 
 So that got me on the Louise Hay path about looking in the mirror and loving yourself and doing all that. Beautiful work. And that took me on another journey. 
 And then... In 1997, placing a near-death experience and being told that I had a malignant disease and, you know, Probably would never sing again. They found a tumour in my thyroid. They thought it was malignant. When they operated, it was benign. But I was facing that. 
 So that led me to another... Another journey. And that's when I decided I wouldn't just sing, have a day job and sing part time. That's when I decided... To do singing full time. And that's when I became, you know, that recording artist. 
 So there's been just one thing. And then COVID happened in 2020. And you I had burnt vocal cords during that period. I was doing concerts on Facebook for my fans. Because all the shows were stopped for the year because of all those lockdowns. And had trouble and they found, they, that I had this, these burnt vocal cords. 
 So that sent me on another journey, but I had to be quiet, Sharlene. So instead of, you know, Thinking all the time. I thought I'll do this and I'll do that and I was setting up my dining room with lights and getting all dressed up and doing shows all the time for the fans. I couldn't do that. I had to be still and I had to really go within. And I'd studied with Tony Robbins. I'd studied with Bob Proctor. I used to have weekly calls with Bob Proctor. And I'd studied with a lady here in Australia called Sandy Forster, who's absolutely amazing. And other mentors. Because I was interested because of all I'd learned and what I'd been through. I felt like I could help someone else. In the same positions. And so I wanted to pass it forward. But because I was managing myself and touring and doing all these things with my singing, I could never really do anything about being a mindset or life coach. Than I could during the 2020. 
 So I went and did more studies online. With the Coaching Institute. And that's where I learned, you know, the metadynamics and the NLP and positive psychology and all these other wonderful modalities. 
 And then I ended up mixing all that up with what I learned from Bob Proctor and Tony Robbins and all the other and life experience and everything else. And that's later on in 2020, that's when I launched the mindset. Coaching. 
 And then the health journey was continuing and then That led me on to another path and then I ended up incorporating the wellness and the mindset together. When I learnt about cellular activation and the natural cellular activation and that path. Wow. 

 Sharlene | 18:06
So this is decades of information. Woven together into a proven process that incorporates not just mindset but wellness to create an opportunity for people to shift through the gap from where they are to where they want to be so if you're looking for more context on this and you know this has piqued your curiosity please reach out to the links that we've got in the show notes and in the show description as well i'm going to ask kel and a question in a moment but before I do. If you're listening today and you are a survivor of family and or domestic violence, reach out to Healing Through Love. We have pamper days, think day spa on steroids in your local cities. You come for free and beautiful practitioners hold the space, hold the frequency for you for a day of beautiful healing all for free. 
 So reach out to us. We'd love to have a conversation with you and point you into the right direction to a local one near you. Now, if you're listening today and you yourself are a survivor of family and or domestic violence, a practitioner, hey, reach out to Healing Through Love. We'd love to have you on the podcast. But reach out to us if you've got a heart for change and you would like to hold the space at one of these Pamper Days. We can connect you to your local organizer and you can pay it forward for that day and make a difference for a woman that will change her life. I love it. I love it. Kell Anne, I've got a question for you. Just in this closing minutes, what would be your final words of wisdom to our audience? 

 Kel-Anne | 19:36
Ghosts and many. First, Trust your intuition. Listen to yourself. Go within. The power is within. It's not out there. It's in here. 

 Sharlene | 19:54
I love that. I love that. I love that. And it is so true. My catchphrase is that you've got this. And because we look, we're vibrating at the same frequency, Kellan, that we believe that the answer is inside of our audiences listening. Thank you so much for joining us today on Healing Through Love. And we look forward to connecting with you soon. Goodbye from me and goodbye from Kel-Anne. 

 Kel-Anne | 20:17
Bye. 

 Outro | 20:21
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