Tea & Taboo - The Gathering with Special Guest Speaker - Briana Bowley

Real Women. Real Conversations. Depth, Truth and Everything In Between. TEA & TABOO: THE GATHERING with Guest Speaker: Briana Bowley TRUSTING THE UNFOLDING Learning how to move through the unexpected Our final gathering of 2026. Tea & Taboo has always been a space for truth. Not the polished version. Not the version where we have it all figured out. But the truth of what it actually means to be a woman moving through her own cycles, seasons, chapters and becoming. Because womanhood is an ever-evolving journey. There are trials and tribulations. There are endings and beginnings. There are moments that break us open, moments that bring us back to ourselves, and moments worth raising a glass to. Tea & Taboo is an intentionally created space for women to gather, connect and be witnessed through the art and medicine of storytelling. Each gathering, I invite a special guest speaker to share a significant part of her own becoming story the experiences that shaped her, the lessons she learned, the wisdom she gained and the woman she has become along the way. And in witnessing another woman’s story, something happens. We see ourselves. We realise we’re not the only ones navigating the messy middle. We’re not broken. We’re not behind. We are becoming. TRUSTING THE UNFOLDING Because sometimes life doesn’t gently redirect us. Sometimes it pulls the rug out from underneath us. A diagnosis. A relationship ending. A loss. A move we never planned. A door closing. A conversation that changes everything. A moment that leaves us standing there thinking: “What the F*#! just happened?” Life is constantly changing around us. And while we may not get to choose what happens, we can choose how we meet what is happening. This November, we’re gathering with Briana Bowley to explore what it means to trust the unfolding and how we can learn to move through the unexpected moments of life with greater presence, awareness and resilience. For those of us who are committed to growing through our experiences, there is often another layer to the unexpected. Not a need to find a silver lining. Not a belief that everything happens for a reason. And certainly not a reason to minimise what we’re going through. But a willingness to become curious. What is this experience showing me? What is it asking me to see differently? What can I learn from this? What is this moment revealing about the way I want to live? BRIANA’S STORY In November, Briana will gently invite us into a conversation about her experience of navigating an unexpected cancer diagnosis, and the ways this chapter has unfolded through her relationships, her life, her business and her relationship with herself. Through sharing her lived experience, alongside her work in nervous system regulation, her work with athletes and her practice of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Briana will offer a space to reflect on what it means to meet the moments we never would have chosen and how we find our way through them, one breath and one step at a time. In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, you quickly learn that you cannot control your opponent’s next move. You have to feel. You have to breathe. You have to regulate. You have to adapt. You have to move with what is happening. And perhaps life is much the same. When our plans change. When our certainty disappears. When our survival mechanisms are activated. When we’re faced with something we never saw coming. How do we come back to ourselves? How do we stay present with what is actually happening? How do we surrender to what we cannot control without becoming passive? How do we move through the experience rather than getting stuck inside it? And how might we allow the unexpected moments of our lives to deepen our awareness of who we are, how we want to live and what truly matters? This is a conversation about the unexpected. About surrender. About nervous system regulation. About resilience. About perspective. About the moments that change us. And about learning to move with life, rather than constantly fighting against the fact that it has changed. Because trusting the unfolding doesn’t mean knowing where you’re going. It means learning how to meet where you are. THIS GATHERING IS FOR YOU IF… • You’ve ever found yourself in a season you didn’t choose. • You’ve ever had the rug pulled out from underneath you. • You’re navigating change, uncertainty or a new chapter. • You’re learning to regulate yourself through life’s unexpected moments. • You’re someone who wants to grow through your experiences rather than simply get through them. • You’re curious about what your experiences might be here to reveal. • Or perhaps you’re simply craving an evening of honest conversation, connection, good women and the reminder that you are not alone in this becoming. Come exactly as you are. There is nothing to perform here. Nothing to prove. Just women, stories, truth, tea, conversation and the beautiful mess of becoming. Let’s gather. Let’s witness. Let’s tell the truth. Let’s trust the unfolding. THE FINAL GATHERING OF 2026 TRUSTING THE UNFOLDING Learning how to move through the unexpected With special guest speaker Briana Bowley