The Subconscious Architect
Kylie-Anne Nel
Hi, I'm Kylie
Founder of That Manifestation mama
Before I taught women to rewire their inner world, I spent years redesigning their outer one.
I trained as an interior architect, studying the psychology of space. Colour temperature and how it shifts emotional states. Ceiling height and how it affects confidence. Acoustic design and how sound shapes what we're capable of feeling. My last project was an arts centre for a school: an arts centre that house a drama centre built to draw out natural flair, a music wing designed with sound engineers to make the auditorium feel like something the moment you walked in. Quiet corners built deliberately safe for children from broken homes. Open, unstructured spaces built to feel free for children who had never been allowed to be.
I knew then what I know now: environment shapes behaviour.
But, the most powerful environment is the one inside you.
The run that changed everything
At 27, I hit my Saturn return and did what most of us do at that threshold.
I started questioning everything.
What is my purpose? What do I actually want? I knew I wanted a family and the financial and time freedom to do it well. I just had no idea what that would look like. So I started following breadcrumbs: property development courses, business podcasts, conversations that pushed me past the edge of my comfort zone. I didn't know where I was going. I just kept moving.
Then I ran across South Africa. Eight half marathons in a row, Johannesburg to Cape Town, raising funds for charity. Somewhere on that road, between the pain and the horizon, a seed dropped: create a manifestation journal.
A few months later I launched my first physical product under Mind Your Hero, the company I founded from scratch. That journal became a brand, the brand became an online coaching business, and everything I had quietly, privately been dreaming of started to arrive.
By 31 I was married to the love of my life, the man I had actively and intentionally manifested, honeymooning in the Maldives, building a seven-figure business, and pregnant with my first son.
I thought I had arrived...
The four years that cracked
everything open
Then the universe handed me my next evolution.
I gave birth to two beautiful boys, my shining stars and guiding lights. My husband and I raised them without family support, without childcare for the first two and a half years, in a country we had never even visited before we moved here. I navigated the loss of my old identity. The relentless duality of loving motherhood and grieving the woman I used to be. The void. A full dark night of the soul. Postpartum rage. And the quiet, private embarrassment of being someone who had taught manifestation for years while struggling to access it for herself.
It tested everything I knew. And on the other side of it, I found a depth of understanding I could not have manufactured any other way.
Something else surfaced in that stillness too. My psychic gifts, which had always been present, grew louder. I began receiving information I couldn't have accessed through intellect alone. I started working with them deliberately, developing them daily, and eventually bringing them into my client work. What I can do in a Human Design reading now goes significantly beyond chart interpretation. I tune into your energy directly. I can feel where it has stopped moving, what it has been protecting, and what it is ready to release. That is not something I was trained into. It is something I came here with, and finally stopped apologising for.
Mind Your Hero had to evolve. The work is the same. The woman teaching it just needed four more years of becoming before she was ready to offer it at this level.
My youngest is about to start school. For the first time since we moved to Dublin, I have the space to fully step into what I am here to build.
Who I Am Now
I am a psychic Human Design reader and NLP Practitioner based in Dublin, working with women worldwide.
My formal training includes a full suite of qualifications completed in person in Cape Town through NLP World in 2019: NLP Practitioner, Life Coaching, Time-Based Techniques, and Hypnotherapy. I have been a registered member of the ANLP (Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming) since 2019. I hold Human Design Level 1 and Level 2 certifications through Brittany Eastman (2021), and am trained in Meta Medicine through Susanne Billander in collaboration with NLP World (2020).
In Human Design terms, I am a 3/5 Emotional Generator with the Right Angle Cross of Planning 1: designed, quite literally, to build communities and pour energy into the work I love.
In practice, I work at the intersection of the scientific and the sacred. The mechanics of how the brain forms belief and resists change. The universal laws and ancient wisdom I am learning more of every single day. The soul codes in your Human Design chart. Shadow work. Inner child healing. And the intuitive gifts that let me feel what is happening beneath the surface of your energy, not just analyse it.
I do not have it all figured out. I am constantly evolving and I will always be honest with you about that. But I have the training, the tools, and the lived experience to walk beside you through the work, and I know these methods produce results because I have used every single one of them on my own life.
You already know manifestation is real. What you are ready for now is to go deeper, into the dimensions, the layers, the parts of yourself you have not yet been brave enough to meet.
That is what I am here for. Welcome to my world.
Certifications and Training
Completed in person, Cape Town. NLP World (2019). ANLP Registered Member since 2019.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner
Life Coaching
Time-Based Techniques
Hypnotherapy
Human Design Level 1 and Level 2, Brittany Eastman (2021)
Meta Medicine, Susanne Billander in collaboration with NLP World (2020)
Ongoing training and self-study
Gene Keys (since 2021, working toward Guide certification) · Shadow Work · Inner Child Healing · Akashic Record Reading · Sports Psychology · Chakra Healing · Reiki Level 1 and 2 · EFT Tapping
