With Love from Tess

04/06/2026

Initiation done ✔️ first blood nose 🥳

03/06/2026

29 people said yes to something last week.

To a whisper they had been trying to unhear for a long time.

You know the one.

The quiet stir in the soul that arrives at 2am, or in the middle of a perfectly ordinary Tuesday, or in the pause between one version of your life and the next. The one that says — not loudly, never loudly —

this is not it.
there is more.
you were made for more than this.

That whisper is not anxiety. It is not ambition. It is not restlessness for its own sake.

It is a calling. And it is divinely placed.

I know because I felt it too — for longer than I want to admit. Living a life that looked fine from the outside while something deep inside me kept stirring, kept reaching, kept asking a question I didn't yet have the courage to answer.

I got a coach. Said yes to an in-person event that felt too expensive, too far, too inconvenient. My old self had a hundred reasons not to go. But something older than my fear said — go.

Within months, my life looked completely different. Dream work. Motherhood. A version of myself I had glimpsed in prayer but hadn't yet dared to fully inhabit. Today, I barely recognise the old version of myself.

I am so glad I didn't stay where it was safe. Same worries, same hidden heart pain. Because safe — when it's actually survival dressed up as wisdom — doesn't feel like safety. It just feels like less.

And you were not made for less. Fact.

Here's what I've learned after years of walking alongside and holding hands with people through this threshold:

The objections are rarely about other people in their life, money or time or their mindset. They are about the part of us that has learned — very skillfully — to silence the whisper of their truth. To defer the calling until the conditions are perfect. To be reasonable. It's not about timing or money - and the honest truth is that it is simply FEAR. False Expectations Appearing Real.

This one thing shapes the trajectory of your life, closing doors and blocking joy. And fear has had a hand in your life and that of your ancestors for hundreds of years.

The conditions will never be perfect. But the calling doesn't stop.

It just gets quieter.
And the cost of not listening gets higher.

If something moved in you last week — if you've been watching, wondering, almost saying yes — that movement is not coincidence.

It is the same whisper. Still here. Still faithful. Still calling you forward.

It is not too late. To love, to create, to live your passions, to cultivate personal strength and courage, to give, to lead, to thrive.

The Naked Truth Coaching Programme is open. And the truest thing I can offer you is this:

The life you are being called toward is not on the other side of more waiting.

It is on the other side of one honest yes.

DM me TRUTH and let's begin. 🤍

— Tess, The Naked Truth Coach™

30/05/2026

30/05/2026

The screen went black while I was still speaking.

And I learned — nothing spoken in truth is ever lost. 🖤

Four days of showing up as the Peaceful Negotiator. Four days of holding the line, dismantling chaos, and learning to speak from a place deeper than performance.

Tonight I am shaking — not from fear, but from the beautiful, terrifying feeling of old armour falling away.

The Sovereign Voice doesn't need to be loud.
It doesn't need to arrive first.
It simply carries weight. Gravity. Truth.

And when you speak from that place?
People don't just hear you.
They feel you in their own bodies.

Grateful for every soul in the room this week. You were my mirror. 🤍

Day 5 tomorrow. ✨

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28/05/2026

Visibility has always been a negatively charged topic for me. Wanting it and then not wanting it 😄.
My solution- become so embodied in my truth that all resistance dissolves.

27/05/2026

How long have you been waiting?

Because I know what it's like to watch other people step into the thing you know is for you and tell yourself "maybe next time" or "I'm not quite ready" or "I'll do it when things settle down."

Love, things don't settle down. Life doesn't pause. And you deserve to stop waiting.

What we are doing inside the Naked Truth Activation Challenge right now is something I haven't seen done quite like this before. We're not doing mindset work. We're going into the body. Into the nervous system. Into the real reasons why you've felt stuck, disconnected, or like you're living someone else's life.

Because that's where the truth actually lives. Not in your head. In you.

If you want to see the magic in action comment 'Me' and I'll makes sure you're in 💜

26/05/2026

Okay, I'm going to be real with you. 🙋‍♀️

I am currently lying on a table having my 15th self-led colonic experience and it has been... a journey. (Technical difficulties and all 😅.)

But here's what keeps moving through me as I watch the old literally moving away from the body -

The more authentic we become, the more our true power wants to emerge. And the more it emerges, the more we are called to clear out what has been stored — physically, emotionally, energetically.

Colonic number one and colonic number fifteen are two very different experiences. There is a journey between them. A physical journey through the entire digestive system — but also a metaphysical one. A cleansing of old ways of thinking. Old identities. Old limitations.

And here's what's sitting with me today in this forced stillness —
There is something incredibly unconscious that happens below the level of our awareness. We don't pay enough attention to the unconscious parts of ourselves. And I mean... that's the whole point. It's unconscious. But so is our body — and yet our body is speaking to us very, very clearly. If only we were still enough to listen.

Sometimes stillness is forced. You book the session. You lay on the table. You pay for the experience and someone else holds the space. But the most powerful stillness? The kind that actually changes you? That comes from deliberate choice. From within.

Because every single day we are choosing. We choose love or we choose fear. We choose open-hearted or we choose retreat. We choose connection or we choose the comfortable separateness — that illusion that keeping our distance somehow keeps us safe, keeps us protected. Playing by the rules.

And I'm here to tell you — the rules suck.

I don't want you playing by rules. I want you being your amazing, audacious, out-there self. Spreading joy. Magic. Sparkles. Bringing real change to the people around you — which brings real change back to you. To your purpose. To your finances. To your family.

Because it is only when we are doing what we are actually here to do — when we are brave enough to write the book, paint the painting, launch the business, put our quirky crazy magic into the world — that everything begins to flow.
What is it that your heart really wants to do?

You know. You've always known.
And just understand this — once you say yes, you've got to give your body time to catch up. The mind commits first. The body follows. Be patient with the journey between the two. 💛

If you're sitting in your nine to five right now feeling that quiet nudge — you are here for more than this — listen to it.

That whisper knows.

The end result is always worth it. It's just the journey between point A and point B that asks everything of us.

25/05/2026

I spent years believing " being grounded" meant becoming polished, more confident, speaking with conviction and looking cool and succesful on the outside.

Turns out that it just means
🌈 moving my body daily
🌈 giving myself permission to rest
🌈 stop overplaying last year's drama in my head
🌈 deliberately loving myself
🌈 owning my worthiness and speaking kindness daily
🌈 not giving a d*mn what others think of me
Spiritual growth sometimes feels like you're riding a tsunami, yet the ocean is the most beautiful after a storm has ended.

22/05/2026

Under the pump with member edits on my work today as submissions close at 5pm. I began this piece 4 days ago from a fractured dream. I love writing about the metaphysical. And today I'm super pumped to be entering this into the 2026 in house competition for my club. I keep thanking myself because what I have before me is the result of my embodiment work over the last few years. It works! Cool under pressure! Thank you Karrinyup Writers' Club Inc.