Meet Temple

Founder of Walking With Wisdom

My work has been shaped by lived experience, deep reflection, curiosity about people, and many years spent in conversation with people as they navigated life's decisions, challenges and changes.

From an early age, I carried a quiet curiosity about life. Two questions stayed with me:

Why can't anybody tell me how life works?
Why do people do what they do?

Those questions never led me to one single framework or method. Instead, the answers unfolded through life itself — through listening, observing, asking questions and becoming curious about what sits beneath the surface of our experiences.

I became fascinated by the way our experiences shape the way we think, react, respond, make choices and move through the world.

Much of my working life was spent in people-facing roles, where I was in daily conversation with people navigating pressure, uncertainty, change and the many decisions life asks of us. Looking back, I can see how those years were quietly preparing me for the work I do today.

Life experience deepened that understanding further.

There have been moments in my own life when simply understanding something wasn't enough. I had to learn how to sit with uncertainty, listen more deeply, look within and find my way forward.

This was one of those times when life was asking me to go inward, not outward — to quiet the noise, sit with the feelings, and become still enough to see what life was trying to show me.

One of the most profound experiences that called me inward was losing custody of my son.

It was a ten-year journey through grief, helplessness, uncertainty, indecisiveness, judgement, criticism and anger — and through circumstances I could not simply change.

There were moments when I felt knocked down by life, and I had to learn that moving forward wasn't simply about getting back up again. It was about finding the inner strength to keep showing up, day after day, and continuing to navigate a situation that did not resolve quickly.

I also knew that how I showed up mattered. I wanted to be a role model for my son — to show him that life can knock you down, that you can experience anger, grief and uncertainty, and still find the strength to keep moving forward with integrity and courage.

For a long time, it would have been easy to become caught in the question of why this happened to me, or to see myself only through what had happened.

But as I began to understand the way life works, I found another way to meet the experience.

I became curious.

Rather than staying in blame or seeing myself as a victim with no way forward, I began asking different questions:

What is this experience showing me?
What am I carrying because of it?
What beliefs are underneath my pain?
What am I being invited to understand?

One of the deepest beliefs I discovered within myself was a story I had carried for years:

“Everything I love gets taken away from me.”

I began to see that this wasn't a truth about who I was or how my life had to be. It was a story shaped by past experiences and a thought and a belief — one that had quietly influenced the way I saw myself and the world around me.

I also had to learn something incredibly important: losing custody of my son did not make me a bad mother.

Acceptance, for me, did not mean accepting that everything that happened was okay. It meant accepting what I could not change, while becoming conscious of what the experience was showing me and choosing how I wanted to move forward.

That shift changed everything.

I learned to navigate the experience with curiosity rather than blame, and to look for the lessons within it rather than allowing the experience to define me.

Today, I am deeply grateful to be in my son's life, and I always have been. The journey changed me, but it did not take away who I am or the love between us.

It taught me that even when life takes us somewhere we never expected to go, we can still find our way forward.

We may not always be able to choose what life brings us, but we can become more conscious of how we meet it.

Sometimes the path forward begins when we stop fighting what we cannot change and become willing to listen to what the experience is showing us.

It is in that space — where awareness meets acceptance — that real change can begin.

The Heart of Walking With Wisdom

Through these experiences, and through years of being curious and observing life, I began to understand something that answered those two questions for me.

Why can't anybody tell me how life works?
Why do people do what they do?

I came to understand that so much of what shapes us is carried through our experiences — the things we've lived through, the beliefs we've formed, the conditioning we've received and the patterns we've learned along the way.

These influences become part of the way we see ourselves, respond to situations, make decisions and navigate the world around us.

And beneath all of this is energy.

The more I learned to observe, feel and listen, the more I came to understand life as an energetic experience — one in which everything is connected and constantly influencing everything else.

For me, this changed the way I looked at life.

Instead of seeing ourselves only as victims of our circumstances, we can become curious about what our experiences are showing us.

Curiosity gives us another perspective.

It allows us to pause and ask:

What is this showing me?
What am I being invited to understand?
What is mine to learn, change or accept?

This doesn't mean that difficult experiences are our fault, or that we should deny what has happened to us.

It means we can begin to distinguish between acceptance and suffering.

We may not be able to change what has happened, but we can become more conscious of how we carry it, what we believe because of it, and how we choose to move forward.

Life is always showing us something.

Through our relationships, our experiences, the patterns we repeat, the choices we face and even the things that no longer feel right.

When we become curious enough to look, rather than afraid of what we might find, we can begin to understand what life may be showing us.

We don't always need another person's answer.

Sometimes we need the space to hear our own.

How I Work

Walking With Wisdom grew from this understanding — that healing, clarity and greater awareness can begin when we turn our attention inward.

My work is not about telling you what you should do or giving you all the answers.

It is about creating a space where you can pause, become curious, reconnect with yourself and listen to the wisdom already within you.

Together, we explore what is happening beneath the surface — noticing the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and patterns that may be influencing how you experience life.

Sometimes, a recurring situation is inviting us to look more closely at a pattern that is ready to be understood and resolved.

Once we begin to recognise what is happening within us, we can meet it with greater awareness and choice, rather than continuing to move through the same patterns unconsciously.

Sometimes this means exploring what you're experiencing and finding your way through a decision, transition or challenging situation.

Sometimes it means simply slowing down enough to reconnect with yourself.

And sometimes the pathway is Reiki — offering a gentle space to receive, restore balance and allow what is no longer serving you to shift.

Whatever brings you here, the intention is the same:

to help you understand what is happening within you, reconnect with your own wisdom, and find your way forward with greater awareness.

Different paths, one intention:

Listen. Reconnect. Trust. Heal.

Today, I offer calm, one-on-one sessions for women who are navigating life, seeking clarity, wanting to understand themselves more deeply, or simply feeling that something within them is ready to shift.

You don't need to have it all figured out before you begin.

We begin where you are.

Temple
Founder, Walking With Wisdom

Based in Corlette, Port Stephens, NSW
Online sessions available