15TH NOVEMBER - 17TH NOVEMBER 2026

THE GENTLE UNRAVELLING

Four virtual workshops. Four incredible facilitators. Three days to gently explore the questions you may have been carrying for months… or maybe years.

Virtual Workshop Series

$33 USD

Attend live or watch later + lifetime access to all four recordings

I’m Ready To Explore

Petria Leggo Field Founder of The Late Blooming Lounge

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.

That’s Why I Created

The Gentle Unravelling

I’m not a therapist, and I’m not your coming-out coach. My role is different.

Over the years of building this community, living through 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 November, I’m bringing together four incredible facilitators for four very different conversations that almost follow the unraveling itself.

We’re talking about the conditioning that can make trusting yourself feel so hard, the guilt that can come up when you start choosing yourself, the process of coming back into your body and learning to hear the signals you may have spent years overriding, and the very practical side of rebuilding, including money, housing and creating security for yourself.

Because sometimes the unraveling isn’t just about sexuality. It’s about learning how to hear yourself, trust yourself, choose yourself, and slowly build a life that feels like yours.

What Landed For The Women Who Joined Us

"The workshops helped me know more about myself, being an online platform, it's nice that you can see it in your safe place & whatever time is convenient to you"

Anonymous

Gentle Unravelling Participant

"Just wanted to say a big thank you to Petria for putting together this workshop series. It's bringing together all the facets of coming out later in life that need education, focus, tenderly meeting & accepting...everything so far in all the workshops has been much needed (even if I didn't know beforehand that I needed to hear these things)"

Anonymous

Gentle Unravelling Participant

"It's not just about the workshops, for me it's the people you meet when you join the workshop and LBL..these people are strangers but they will listen, laugh, support you without any judgement...and knowing that I am not alone in this journey is very comforting"

Anonymous

Gentle Unravelling Participant

What We’ll Explore Together

Save My Spot

SUNDAY 15TH NOVEMBER

6AM AEST

Why Is This So Hard? The Hidden Conditioning That's Keeping You From Yourself

With Samantha Fox; A Later in Life Lesbian, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Sexuality Doula and Lesbian Curiosity Coach.

If you’re questioning your sexuality and constantly wondering “Am I really gay?” or “Am I making this up?”, there may be far more going on than simple uncertainty.

Samantha will unpack how compulsory heterosexuality, social conditioning and deeply ingrained expectations can shape the way you understand yourself, and why it can feel so hard to trust what you’re feeling. You’ll begin identifying which voices are actually yours, which ones were handed to you, and how to create more space for your own truth to come through.

About Samantha

Samantha Fox is a psychotherapist and coach who has spent more than fifteen years supporting women coming out later in life. Her work helps women understand the conditioning, fear and internal conflict that can make discovering and accepting their sexuality feel so overwhelming.

MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER

9AM AEST

The Guilt of Choosing Yourself: Why Coming Out Later in Life Can Feel So Selfish

With Annie M Henderson; A Later in Life Lesbian, Life Coach, Author & Host of The Liberated Lesbian Lounge Podcast

Discovering your sexuality can bring up enormous guilt, about your partner, your children, your family and the life you’ve already built.

Annie will help you explore where that guilt comes from, the difference between guilt and shame, and why years of people-pleasing can make choosing yourself feel like hurting everyone else.

Through reflection, journaling and grounding practices, you’ll begin learning how to honour your own needs without feeling like you’re abandoning the people you love.

About Annie

Annie M Henderson is a professional life coach, author, former Licensed Professional Counselor and host of The Liberated Lesbian Lounge podcast.

As a later-in-life lesbian herself, Annie supports women navigating people-pleasing, boundaries, identity, relationships and rebuilding self-trust.

TUESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER

Rebuilding Financial Confidence: Preparing for Home Ownership After Life Changes

With Jessica Bailey; Mortgage Broker specialising in helping women, solo parents and LGBTQIA+ families navigate home ownership and finance

When life changes, the practical questions can feel just as overwhelming as the emotional ones.

In this workshop, Jessica will break down the foundations of preparing for home ownership, including understanding your financial position, borrowing capacity, savings, budgeting and what to start putting in place now.

Jessica is based in Australia, so lending rules will vary internationally, but the bigger principles around preparation, financial confidence and knowing what questions to ask are relevant wherever you live.

This session is about helping home ownership and financial independence feel less overwhelming and a little more possible after separating from your male partner.

About Jessica

Jessica Bailey is an Accredited Mortgage Broker and founder of Lending Solved, with a particular focus on supporting women, solo parents and LGBTQIA+ families through home ownership and major life transitions.

Jessica was also my own mortgage broker when I bought my home as a solo mum, so I know firsthand how supportive, practical and reassuring she is when the whole process feels overwhelming.

TUESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER

8PM AEST

Unpack Your Sass: Finding Your Way Back to Yourself Through Your Body’s Signals

With Brittany Leigh Walls; Later in Life Lesbian, Body-First Coach & NASM Certified Wellness Coach

Sometimes your body knows something before your brain is ready to admit it. The tight chest. The held breath. The irritation. The numbness. That quiet feeling that something isn’t quite right.

Through breathwork, guided reflection and her Sass Cycle framework, Brittany will help you recognise the signals your body has been sending, understand the ways you’ve learned to override them, and start rebuilding trust in yourself.

You’ll leave with a simple body-first practice you can use when things start to feel noisy or overwhelming.

About Brittany

Brittany Leigh Walls is a body-first coach, writer, founder of Unpack Your Sass and a NASM Certified Wellness Coach. Her work helps people reconnect with their bodies, understand their protective patterns and begin listening to themselves again.

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

YES I WANT TO JOIN THE UNRAVELLING

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.