19–21 October 2026
THE GENTLE UNRAVELLING
Four virtual workshops. Four incredible lesbian facilitators. Three days to gently explore the questions you may have been carrying for months… or maybe years.
19–21 October 2026
Virtual Workshop Series
$33 USD
Attend live or watch later + lifetime access to all four recordings
ABOUT THE GENTLE UNRAVELLING
Maybe the hardest part of questioning your sexuality later in life isn’t the questioning itself.
Maybe it’s having absolutely no idea where to go with it.
Who do you talk to when you’re married to a man, raising children, working, paying bills, living an entire life everyone recognises… and quietly wondering whether you might be gay?
What do you Google?
Who can you trust?
And how do you explore what you’re feeling without believing you have to immediately blow up your entire life?
Maybe you’ve been quietly reading posts for months. Listening to queer podcasts with headphones in.
Following women online who make something inside you light up.
Typing “Am I gay?” into Google and hoping somehow the internet will give you a definitive answer.
Maybe you haven’t told your husband.
Maybe you have told him and now everything feels even more complicated.
Maybe you’ve already come out, but saying the words “I’m gay” didn’t magically answer every question about sex, desire, identity, relationships or what comes next.
Wherever you are in this journey, you do not need to have it all figured out before you’re allowed support.
19-21st October 2026
Virtual Workshop Series
That’s Why I Created
The Gentle Unravelling
I‘m not a therapist.
I’m not you’re coming-out coach
My role is different.
Over the years of building this community, living my own later -in-life coming out journey and connecting with incredible professionals along the way, I’ve met women whose work I genuinely trust.
And I can bring those people into the room for you.
People I would personally recommend to one of my closest friends if she suddenly found herself thinking:
“What the hell do I do with this?”
This October, I’m bringing together four incredible lesbian facilitators for four very different conversations.
And together, the workshops almost follow the emotional journey themselves:
Fear.
Sexuality.
Pleasure.
Possibility.
What We’ll Explore Together
Monday 19th October
What If This Changes Everything?
Navigating the fear, anxiety & uncertainty of questioning your sexuality later in life
With Jen Horak, RP Licensed Psychotherapist & Identity Integration Coach
6:00am Brisbane AEST
USA: Sunday 18 October
4:00pm Eastern | 3:00pm Central | 2:00pm Mountain | 1:00pm Pacific
If one question “What if I’m actually gay?” has opened the door to a hundred more, start here. What does this mean about my marriage? My kids? What if I’m wrong? What if I hurt people I love? What if I change everything and regret it?
Jen will help you separate what you actually know from what you fear, quiet some of the pressure to figure everything out immediately, and explore your sexuality without believing you need to choose a label, come out or leave your relationship before you’re ready.
You’ll also be guided through practical exercises to help you reconnect with what feels true for you right now and identify a next step that feels manageable rather than overwhelming.
You are allowed to be curious without having all the answers.
Tuesday 20th October
The Sex Ed You Wish You Had in High School
With Dr. Mallory Hanfling
Queer Therapist & Doctor of Human Sexuality
8:00am Brisbane AEST
USA: Monday 19 October
6:00pm Eastern | 5:00pm Central | 4:00pm Mountain | 3:00pm Pacific
Queer sex can feel like suddenly becoming a teenager again, curious, excited and also wondering whether everyone else received an instruction manual you somehow missed.
Dr. Mal will take you through queer anatomy, different kinds of sex, toys, consent, communication and pleasure, while also helping you reconnect with your sexual self and learn to listen to and trust your body.
There will also be an anonymous Q&A, so you really can ask the things you’ve been too nervous to say out loud.
No embarrassment.
No assumption that you should already know.
Just the queer sex education so many of us wish we’d received years ago.
Tuesday 20th October
Slow Burn:
Coming home to pleasure and desire through the body With Kate Mellis Somatic Coach & Embodiment Practitioner
7:00pm Brisbane AEST
USA: Tuesday 20th October
5:00am Eastern | 4:00am Central | 3:00am Mountain | 2:00am Pacific
What does desire feel like when you stop thinking about what you should want and begin listening to your own body?
Through gentle movement, breath, sound and optional self-touch, Kate will help you reconnect with pleasure, desire and your body in a way that centres choice, agency and consent.
This isn’t about performing.
It isn’t about pushing yourself.
Everything is optional.
It’s simply an invitation to become curious about what pleasure and desire feel like in your own body, outside of the old stories, rules and expectations you may have carried for years.
Wednesday 21st October
Write Your Future Story
Start imagining your truest, most authentic life
With Suzette Mullen Speaker, Book Coach & Author of The Only Way Through Is Out
6:00am Brisbane AEST
USA: Tuesday 20 October
4:00pm Eastern | 3:00pm Central | 2:00pm Mountain | 1:00pm Pacific
When you’re standing at the edge of change, sometimes the scariest part is not knowing what could exist on the other side. Do I have the courage to leave my marriage? Live on my own?Come out? Choose myself? Start again?
None of us gets a crystal ball.
But we can begin imagining.
Through guided writing, Suzette will help you tap into your own inner wisdom and begin imagining a future that feels more authentic to you, without requiring you to make any decisions today.
You do not need to consider yourself a writer.
You do not have to share anything you write. Just bring a pen, some paper and a little willingness to wonder:
What could my life look like if I allowed myself to imagine it?
All four workshops + lifetime access
$33
That’s for the
whole series.
Not $33 per workshop
YOU’LL ALSO GET:
Lifetime access to all four workshop recordings, so you can revisit them when ever you need them
The option to attend live and be part of the conversations as they happen
The ability to submit questions beforehand, including questions you may not feel comfortable asking live
A low pressure way to explore, with no expectation to speak, turn your camera on, share your story or have anything figured out
Me there with you throughout the series, hosting, learning and gentle unravelling alongside you.
Access to a private group chat for the series, where you can connect with other women, share reflections, ask questions & feel less alone in the process
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
I’m Petria, founder of The Late Blooming Lounge, retreat host and community builder, with my own lived experience of questioning and coming out later in life.
I’m not a therapist or coach. My purpose is to help women feel less alone while they work out what’s true for them, by creating safe spaces, starting meaningful conversations and bringing trusted experts into the room to support them through this wild, tender journey.
You Can Be Completely Private
I know how tender this space is.
You might be reading this with your husband sitting beside you.
You might not have told anyone.
You might not even know weather the word lesbian belongs to you.
That’s completely okay.
You do not have a turn your camera on.
You do not have to speak.
You do not have to tell us your story.
You do not have to publicly ask a question.
You’ll be able to submit questions before the workshop, so if there is something you desperately want one of the facilitators to answer but you don’t feel ready to ask it yourself, we can bring it into the conversation for you.
And if live attendance isn’t possibly?
You can watch it privately afterwards.
Maybe you’ll join because you’re terrified about what questioning means.
Maybe you want someone to finally explain queer sex without making you feel ridiculous for not knowing.
Maybe you’re ready to connect with your body.
Maybe you want to imagine a future that feels more like you.
Or maybe you don’t actually know what you need yet.
That’s okay too.
You don’t need to know the ending of the story to start listening to yourself.
Come exactly as you are, we’ll meet you there.
Petria xx
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