The woman behind the retreat
I created the retreat I once needed myself
Hi, I’m Tee.
Where it began
Long before Your Velvet Passport, I learned how to be the strong one.
From a very young age, I became responsible for caring for other people. I learned to notice what everyone needed, to keep things moving and to carry more than anyone realised. That pattern followed me into adulthood.
I spent twenty two years in a relationship, raised two beautiful daughters and built a full life. From the outside, I looked capable, resilient and completely in control. I was the woman who could handle everything.
And I did handle everything.
But somewhere beneath the responsibilities, the routines and the constant focus on everyone else, I had slowly lost touch with myself.
I could tell you what the people I loved needed. I could remember the appointments, carry the worries and make sure everyone else was okay. But I could no longer tell you what I wanted, what I needed or what made me feel truly alive. My identity had become wrapped around the roles I played for other people.
The turning point
It came during a solo trip to Ubud.
Away from the noise of everyday life and all the roles I was used to carrying, I finally became quiet enough to hear the truth I had been avoiding. I was deeply unhappy, and the life I had built could not continue in the same way.
It was not a neat or comfortable realisation. It was frightening, painful and, in some ways, deeply freeing. I knew that if I continued ignoring what I felt, I would disappear even further from myself.
That realisation eventually led me to leave my relationship and step into a life I had never imagined I would be living. I was still a mother. I was still responsible for other people. I still had work, bills, fear and uncertainty. But for the first time in a very long time, I had begun listening to myself.
Finding my way back
It was not one dramatic breakthrough. It happened through small, honest choices.
Learning to understand what my body was holding, and allowing myself to be supported instead of always being the one providing the support.
A day at Premalaya became one of those deeply significant moments for me. Surrounded by nature and experiencing Reiki, the sauna, the ice bath and the space to simply be, I felt something within me begin to soften.
Healing does not always happen when we push harder. Sometimes it begins when we finally feel safe enough to stop holding everything together.
Counselling
Breathwork
Reiki
Sound healing
Movement
Rest I did not have to earn
Travel
Somatic work
Massage
Meditation
Time in nature
Learning to be supported
Why I created it
At first I thought this would be about travel. Travel was only ever the vehicle.
The purpose was to create beautifully held spaces for women who had spent so much of their lives caring for everyone else that they could no longer clearly hear themselves. They simply need enough space, support and safety to remember who they already are.
It is a permission slip to step away from the roles you carry, let yourself be cared for and come home to the woman underneath all of them.
Women standing at the edge of change.
Women moving through separation, burnout, grief or an empty nest.
Women with a quiet knowing that the life they have been living no longer feels like their own.
Women who do not need to be fixed, rescued or told who to become.
My role
I do not pretend to have all the answers, and I am not here to tell you how to live your life.
I am the founder, the host and the woman behind every carefully considered detail of your experience. I bring together qualified, experienced facilitators to guide the deeper work, while my role is to create a space where you feel welcomed, cared for, emotionally safe and genuinely seen.
I want you to arrive knowing that you do not have to perform, explain yourself or be the strong one here. You can laugh. You can cry. You can rest. You can be quiet. You can reconnect with your body, listen to your own voice and begin trusting yourself again.
My hope is that you leave feeling lighter, clearer and more alive. Not with every answer, but with the confidence to take your next step.
An invitation
If some part of you has been quietly thinking, this is me
Please know that you do not have to have your next chapter figured out. You are welcome to arrive exactly as you are. It would be my privilege to welcome you.
Your Velvet Passport
Your Velvet Passport creates intimate women’s retreats designed to help you pause, reconnect and come home to yourself.
Based in Western Australia. Created for women ready to choose themselves.