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Guiding Courage, Palace Arcade , 8/133 Bourbong Street, Bundaberg (2026)

29/07/2026

Healing is Hectic but worth it!

For a long time, I believed love meant leaving pieces of myself behind.

I abandoned my own needs to keep the peace. I abandoned my own truth to preserve connection. I abandoned my own fire while hoping someone else would finally choose me.
But somewhere along the way, I realised something.

Every time I left myself... I taught the world that I could be left.

So these past two years haven't been about learning to live without love.

They've been about learning not to abandon myself.

To become someone who remains.
Someone who honours her own heart. Someone who tends her own Sacred Flame. Someone who understands that mutuality is not too much to ask.

Today, I choose differently.
I choose what chooses me.

In love.
In friendship.
In family.
In community.
In purpose.
Because the way I treat myself becomes the way I quietly teach others to treat me.

And perhaps that is one of the greatest legacies we can leave.

Not perfection.
Not performance.
But showing our children, our community, and the generations that follow that love never asks us to abandon ourselves in order to belong.

May they inherit a different way.
May they learn that a whole heart does not chase belonging...
It becomes a place where belonging begins.

I honour that I am finally becoming someone I would never leave.

And from that place...

The only thing I've ever wanted when i was younger in life was for my children and sister and my nieces to be safe.... Is now a reality..

If you ever needed a reminder to remember who is watching its now, your eco system watches how you allow people to treat you and then it acts accordingly ✨️ 😊 😉
❤️🔥❤️🔥

25/07/2026

My Life Statement

I have chosen to spend my life walking The Living Way.

I do not walk this path because my life has been perfect.

I walk it because I have known pain, dysfunction, loss, and the weight of choices I wish had been different.

There are parts of my story I cannot change.

There are people I cannot go back and protect.

There are moments I would live differently if I had the wisdom then that I carry today.

I honour those truths with humility.

I do not believe our past has the final word.

I believe healing begins when we are willing to tell the truth, take responsibility where it belongs, receive compassion, and choose a different way forward.

That is why I created The Living Way.

Not because I have all the answers, but because I have learned that restoration is possible.

My hope is that fewer children grow up carrying the burdens so many of us have carried.

That more families become places of safety instead of fear.

That cycles of violence, abuse, neglect, and shame are interrupted through courage, accountability, compassion, and connection.

If my life can help even one person create a safer home than the one they knew before, then something beautiful has grown from what once caused pain.

This is the work I choose for the rest of my life.

Not to erase my past.

But to let it become part of a future where more people experience safety, belonging, and love.

One person.

One family.

One generation at a time.

This is The Living Way.

— Renee Aceso also known as Anaya♡Stone Temple Guide & Founder of Guiding Courage

Ps......If this feels like it's a way you would like to explore also, there is a Gaurdian Gathering being formed to concentrate on Practicing Concious Presence, together as alot of us are very old school FUBAR from being at war for so long.....so we purposefully do things together. If this feels like something that resonates - reach out..we got this....to all the OG's thanks for sticking it out

24/07/2026

If I have to witness another person telling another person their way is wrong. Or because they are doing their shadow work, all of sudden they are superior- I just might decide its time for an ego face off.

What gives any of us the right to choose someone else's path or how someone partipcates and shows up in their life is wrong ????

Its a choose your own adventure ride guys! I have been enjoying my return.
When I say return - when I got to crash and burn by my own doing..when I finally stopped and had a good look at what was going on in my life and said Enough! 2 years of chosen dedication to cleaning up my act, my vessel and my timeline.hmm....

My natural essence was so busy doing for others what I naturally could of been doing for myself the entire last 30 years of carnival circus living!! It was intense! The reality check, the way I came to moments in life sheesh.

Hmmmm! How we live is no one else's business! But what I will say is - don't step in to another's adventure and then decide they are doing it all wrong ;)

For years I couldn't quite find the words for something I kept witnessing.
In recovery circles.
In spiritual communities.
In personal development days.
In relationship workshops.
And if I'm honest, within myself.
People were trying to become Kings and Queens while the family within remained fractured.
We spoke about sovereignty before safety.
Leadership before regulation.

Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine before healthy Inner Mother and healthy Inner Father.
I understand why.
The King and Queen are inspiring.
The child within is not.
The teenager within is not.
The critical parent within is certainly not.
Yet these are often the parts quietly running our lives.
For many years I sought healing through many different paths. Some helped me tremendously. Some gave me language. Some gave me belonging. Some gave me experiences that allowed me to feel things I had never felt before.

I don't regret any of the paths I walked.
They gave me exactly what I needed at the time.
They were all teachers.
Yet over time I began noticing something in myself.
I could speak about sovereignty before I felt safe.
I could speak about the Divine before I had restored the family within.

I could speak about Kings and Queens while parts of me were still longing to be mothered and fathered.

That wasn't failure.
It wasn't hypocrisy.
It was simply the next lesson waiting for me.
Looking back, I can see that much of my own journey was not a search for power.
It was a search for safety.
Not a search for enlightenment.
A search for belonging.
Not a search for a throne.

A search for a home within myself.

Over the years I watched people, including myself, step into powerful archetypes while carrying unhealed wounds underneath.
Not because we were pretending.
Not because we were doing it wrong.
Because we were human.
Because sometimes it feels easier to wear a crown than to sit beside the frightened child within.
Today I hold a different view.

I often stoke the fire and wonder if the ones who helped me to find this depth will return to sit in ceremony and heal the fractures? Anything can be restored with connection ✨️ ☺️

However - Before the throne is restored, the family within must be restored.
Before we become Kings and Queens, we must learn how to become healthy Mothers and Fathers to ourselves. And then to our offspring.
Before sovereignty comes stewardship.
Before leadership comes responsibility.
Before spiritual awakening comes honest self-awareness.

This is why at Stone Temple and Guiding Courage we do not allow spiritual bypassing through the front door.

Not because archetypes are wrong.
Not because spirituality is wrong.
Not because any path is wrong.

But because true embodiment asks us to build the foundation first.

The Inner Child.
The Inner Teen.
The Critical Parent.
The Healing Parent.

The family within.
Then something beautiful happens.
The throne no longer becomes a fantasy.

It becomes a natural expression of integration.
Not a crown placed upon woundedness.
A life built upon wholeness.

We do not allow spiritual bypassing through the front door because many of us spent years trying to reach the throne while the family within was still calling us home.

And perhaps that has been the lesson all along.
Not becoming something extraordinary.
But becoming trustworthy to the parts of ourselves that were never properly cared for.
From that place, the King and Queen arise naturally.
Not as performance.
Not as identity.
Not as status.
But as a living expression of a restored family within.

Over the next 3 weeks I will be embracing , packing up a beautiful office , to go back to my most favourite earth location to sit with people when we journey.. what was formerly known as the Bundaberg healing den is now a beautiful Heartstone Sanctuary , my eldest daughter has the most profound way to bring life to anything and that includes to what was at times a shadow only location..now we vibrate safely in frequencies with our shared Cosmic & Earth Wisdom.

Let's get this show on the road shall we.

Tonight we also have a monthly regular Close The Gates cermony - 6pm.

Time to burn my loves, the false distortions, the old ways of survival and welcome the steady Golden Soul truth ✨️

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19/07/2026

Looking forward to sharing my 2 years of journeying deeply and descending in to the light , through presence rather then performance.
So Women, time to gather and honour the spirial of creation xx
I found many pathways, I explored many activities, honoured the sacred holy Triad and now quite literally I'm coming home, in so many senses.

This so far is going to be landing mid September.

And yes MEN there will be a Men's only gathering- that you will be encouraged to attend 🙏

Comment or message and I'll put your name down to keep the space nice and warm around the shared ground Bonfire for you ✨️🌈✨️

19/07/2026

Stone Temple Guided Journeys

Presence On • Masks Off

A private online embodiment experience.
Some journeys begin with touch.
Others begin with presence.

Stone Temple Guided Journeys invite you into a quiet space of remembering. A place to slow down, breathe, and gently meet yourself beneath the stories you've carried for so long.
Shaped through years of counselling, somatic practice, sacred intimacy, power exchange dynamics, and lived experience, each journey is uniquely guided by what unfolds in the moment.

There is no script.
No expectation.
Only curiosity.
Together we listen.
We notice.
We remember.
Sometimes we laugh.
Sometimes we cry.
Sometimes we simply sit with what has been waiting to be seen.

This is not about becoming someone new.
It is about remembering who you have always been.

Because the screen can become the safety needed to explore deeply..

Guiding Courage – The Living Way

19/07/2026

Stone Temple Intensives

There comes a point where talking isn't enough.

The body remembers.

The body protects.

The body also knows how to soften when it feels truly safe.

Stone Temple Intensives are a unique one-to-one experience, individually tailored to you.

Blending therapeutic An-Mo massage, breathwork, embodied awareness, energy work and grounded ta***ic principles, each session gently follows your body's wisdom rather than a fixed routine.

Shaped through years of counselling, somatic practice, sacred intimacy, power exchange dynamics, and lived experience, each journey is uniquely guided by what unfolds.

No two sessions are ever the same.

Some people leave feeling deeply rested.

Some reconnect with parts of themselves they haven't felt in years.

Some simply remember what it feels like to truly arrive in their own body.

This is a space to slow down, receive, breathe, and reconnect with yourself—at your own pace, in your own way.

Bottoms On • Tops Off

Stone Temple Intensives follow a Bottoms On • Tops Off policy.

This simply means your underwear remains on throughout the entire session, while the upper body may be uncovered to allow for therapeutic bodywork.

Although underwear remains on, this is still a full-body experience, thoughtfully tailored to you using a unique combination of therapeutic An-Mo massage, breath, embodied presence and energy work.

Every session is guided by clear communication, ongoing consent, and deep respect for your comfort, boundaries and individual needs.

There is no script.

No expectation.

Just a safe space to arrive exactly as you are.

Some things can't be rushed.

Stone Temple Intensives have unfolded over many years and are now ready to be shared.

To celebrate their arrival, I'm offering an introductory price for a limited time.
The price is new. The experience isn't.

✨️🌈✨️🌈✨️

13/07/2026

A Bottom-Up Approach to Healing

Healing doesn't begin by trying to think differently.

It begins by helping the body feel safe.
When our nervous system has spent years protecting us, change isn't created through pressure or willpower. It begins with safety, curiosity and connection.
My work uses a bottom-up approach, combining counselling, creative therapies, breathwork and embodied practices to help restore the relationship with yourself.
Rather than asking,
"What's wrong with you?"
We begin by asking,

"What happened?"
and
"Who inside you is asking to be heard?"

As safety grows, the different parts of ourselves can begin to work together instead of against each other.
From there, lasting change becomes possible.
Not because we force it...
but because we create the conditions for it.

My Philosophy

The Living Way

The Living Way is the philosophy that guides all of my work.
It is a simple way of living that supports people to move from surviving toward living with greater awareness, connection and purpose.

Anchor — Create safety.
Restore — Restore the relationship within.
Connect — Live from your deeper values in everyday life.

My Framework

Inner Family Restore

Every person has an inner world.
An Inner Child.
An Inner Teen.
Protective parts that learned to survive.
Inner Family Restore helps these parts become understood, supported and integrated, so you can respond to life with greater clarity, compassion and steadiness.

The Journey

Awaken the Lovers Within

As the relationship within begins to heal, many people discover a deeper sense of inner balance.

This is what I call Awakening the Lovers Within—the capacity to relate to yourself with care, respect and integrity, and from that place, to build healthier relationships with others.

The Invitation

Stone Temple
Stone Temple is an experiential pathway for people who are ready to continue beyond restoration into deeper embodied practice, presence and personal growth.

Why I do this work

My work is grounded in both professional training and lived experience.

I know what it is like to live in survival mode. I know the impact of complex trauma, addiction, grief and rebuilding life from the ground up.

Today I live in long-term sobriety and continue to learn through my own journey as a neurodivergent woman. Living with autism and ADHD has deepened my appreciation that healing is not about becoming someone else—it is about understanding ourselves with greater compassion.

My hope is to offer a space where people feel safe enough to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and discover that lasting change begins with safety, relationship and courage. Both online and in person.

🌈✨️May you go gently about your day or night,
And so it is ✨️🌈

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