Carly Rae: The Devotion to Remember What the World Has Forgotten
Oct 31, 2026Carly Rae Beaudry
The Devotion to Remember What the World Has Forgotten
There are women who teach us how to change our lives. And then there are women who invite us to remember what life was before we learned to question our own nature.
Carly Rae Beaudry is one of those women.
A woman of impeccable devotion. To the body, to the earth, to the intelligence of nature, and to the ancient, intricate experience of being a woman, written into our biology long before anyone attempted to define what womanhood should mean.
And perhaps most importantly, devotion to living in accordance with what she believes to be true.
There is something fascinating about a woman who has spent so much of her life studying the natural world while simultaneously challenging the ideas we have inherited about how we are supposed to live within it. Carly's work exists at the intersection of biology, embodiment, spirituality, and the intimate relationship between human beings and the environments that sustain them.
At the center of it all is a question that has the power to change how we experience almost everything.
What if life has been speaking to us all along?
Through the trees, the waters moving within our bodies, the food we eat, and the land that nourishes it. Through the rhythms of our cycles, the intimacy of our relationships, the wisdom of our desires, and the quiet signals of a body that has never stopped communicating.
What if these are not separate conversations? What if there is an extraordinary relationship between our biology and the living world, one we have become so accustomed to overlooking that we have forgotten how to recognize it?
And what might become possible if we began listening again?
This is the territory Carly has devoted her work to exploring.
Through her teachings in female biology, body literacy, and the relationship between science and spirit, she invites women into a more intimate understanding of their own bodies. Not as problems to be solved or appearances to maintain, but as living systems worthy of curiosity, attention, and care.
Her work asks women to consider what they have inherited, what they have accepted without examination, and what they might discover by developing a more informed and personal relationship with their own biology.
There is something profoundly powerful about that invitation, because the way a woman relates to her body has the potential to influence how she relates to nearly everything else.
Her health, her relationships, her desires, her family, her decisions, and the life she chooses to build. The questions she asks. The authority she trusts. The responsibility she is willing to take for understanding her own experience.
Carly's work returns again and again to the possibility that women can become more active participants in their own lives, rather than remaining dependent on someone else to interpret every aspect of their experience for them.
Not somewhere outside of themselves, waiting for permission. In their own hands, their own bodies, and the lives they are willing to take responsibility for.
I have admired Carly for a long time, and I can still remember what it felt like to encounter her voice online.
Here was a woman saying things that challenged people. Ideas that provoked disagreement, discomfort, and sometimes outright outrage. She was willing to question widely accepted narratives, and she seemed remarkably uninterested in making herself easier to agree with simply to avoid the consequences of speaking.
I watched her remain planted in her feet.
I watched her continue to articulate her perspective, even when the response was anything but welcoming. And somewhere in that experience, I recognized something I wanted for myself.
I remember thinking, “Someday, I will be ready to say what I really mean and not be afraid.”
There are people whose courage changes something in us before we ever have a conversation with them. Carly was one of those people for me.
Not because I needed to agree with every word she spoke, but because I recognized something extraordinary in a woman who had decided that her voice belonged to her.
That she could be challenged without immediately abandoning herself. That she could stand inside her convictions while allowing other people the freedom to have their own. That she did not need to make her ideas smaller simply to make them easier for the world to receive.
And I began to wonder what might become possible in my own life if I learned to do the same.
There is a particular kind of strength required to build a world around ideas that not everyone is ready to welcome. It requires more than a powerful voice or the ability to withstand criticism. It requires the willingness to be misunderstood, the humility to keep learning, and the responsibility to examine what you believe as carefully as you ask others to examine what they have been taught.
It also requires something that I think is too often overlooked in conversations about conviction.
A life that can hold the weight of what you say.
And this is one of the things I admire most about Carly.
She has built her world with her hands.
Beyond the words, the teachings, and the conversations taking place online, there is land. Eighty acres to tend, horses to care for, seasons to move through, and a living landscape that cannot be persuaded by a beautiful argument or an impressive idea.
The land asks for presence. It asks for attention, consistency, and a relationship with forces that will never organize themselves around our convenience.
There is something deeply poetic about a woman whose work is devoted to the intelligence of nature choosing to live in such a close relationship with it. Because the earth has its own rhythms, its own requirements, and its own way of revealing what our ideas cannot teach us.
It teaches through repetition, through weather, through what grows and what refuses to grow.
Through the patience required to nurture something whose timing is not ours to command, and the humility of recognizing that we are participants in a living world rather than the authors of every outcome.
I imagine there is a particular kind of understanding that comes from tending land over time. Not the kind we acquire by collecting information, but the kind that emerges through participation.
And perhaps this is where devotion becomes more than a beautiful word.
It becomes a way of life.
A standard we return to through our choices, our work, our relationships, and the ordinary responsibilities that ask us to embody what we believe. A willingness to participate in the things we claim to honor, even when that participation requires more of us than we anticipated.
Carly's world is not always an easy one to enter. Her ideas can be confronting, her convictions are strong, and she asks questions that challenge assumptions many of us have learned to live inside.
But I don't believe the purpose of a powerful voice is always to make us comfortable.
Sometimes its purpose is to awaken our curiosity. To interrupt what we have accepted without examination. To remind us that we are allowed to ask bigger questions about the way we live, the systems we participate in, and the authority we give away.
And that with the freedom to question comes the responsibility to discover, discern, and decide what is true for ourselves.
I think about the women who encounter Carly's work and begin looking at their bodies differently. Women who become curious about their biology, who begin asking more informed questions, who pay closer attention to their experiences, and who consider what kind of relationship they want to cultivate with their own nature.
I think about the mothers, leaders, partners, and women building families and futures who bring that curiosity into other parts of their lives. Women who begin recognizing that their bodies are not separate from the lives they are creating, and that understanding themselves is part of participating more consciously in those lives.
And I think about what happens when a woman stops waiting for permission to take herself seriously.
There is an entirely different world that becomes possible from that place.
A world in which devotion is not submission, but a deliberate choice about what we will honor. Where sovereignty is not separation from life, but a deeper responsibility to participate in it. Where the body is not an obstacle to overcome, but part of the extraordinary experience of being alive.
And where a woman can belong to herself so completely that her life begins to reflect it.
That is the world I recognize Carly building.
Not simply through what she teaches, but through the standard she is willing to live.
When I think about why I wanted her voice inside the first God Built Summit, I return to the woman I was when I first encountered her words. The woman who was still learning how to say what she meant, who saw another woman standing firmly in her own voice and recognized a possibility for herself.
I know now that courage is not something we acquire once and possess forever. It is something we choose repeatedly, in the moments when it would be easier to soften what we know, abandon what matters, or let the fear of being misunderstood decide how fully we show up.
Whether that something is our body, our voice, the land we live on, the people we love, or the work we know we are here to create.
We cannot build a life that belongs to us while remaining strangers to the very things that make us who we are.
To recognize that the world we build is shaped not only by the ideas we believe, but by the relationships we are willing to cultivate, the responsibilities we choose to carry, and the standards we return to when no one is watching.
Carly reminds me that building a world begins with being willing to inhabit your own. To tend it, to honor it, to question what no longer belongs there, and to take responsibility for what grows.
That, to me, is what makes her a World Builder.
Because sometimes the most revolutionary world we can build is one in which a woman remembers that her life, her body, and her voice belong to her.
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