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Templestone Wellbeing, Sutherland Shire, Sydney (2026)

24/12/2025

✨Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas. A time for reflection, gratitude, self love, and sharing with loved ones.
✨Think about this year and those experiences that made an impression on you. What have you learned about yourself in those situations?
✨celebrate your wins and acknowledge your challenges with honesty, kindness, compassion and forgiveness.
✨Be the best expression of yourself, live your truth.
✨Choose peace and happiness

15/12/2025

✨ Creative therapies invite healing beyond words✨

Creative therapies — including creative art therapy, sand tray therapy, and role play— use the expressive power of the arts to support healing, self-discovery, and emotional wellbeing.

✨Through non-verbal expression, individuals can safely explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences that may feel difficult to articulate. These evidence-based therapies access deeper parts of the brain, encouraging self-reflection, insight, and personal growth.

✨By engaging in the creative process, clients are supported to explore their inner world, gain clarity around feelings and behaviours, and develop healthier coping strategies.

✨Templestone Wellbeing offers a safe, supportive, and trauma-informed space where emotional tension can be released and personal stories gently explored.
Angelina guides clients through art-making, sand tray work, role play, and movement-based practices — holding space for reflection and meaning-making.

Creative expression is not about producing a masterpiece — it’s about the process, presence, and insight gained along the way.

✨The benefits extend beyond the session, supporting greater self-awareness, resilience, self-esteem, and emotional balance.

✨ If you’re experiencing stress, anxiety, or navigating trauma, creative therapies may offer a powerful and gentle path toward healing and growth.
✨ Go to bio for links
(photos are Angelina’s personal works or otherwise of consent)

09/12/2025

✨Corporate Wellbeing Workshops with Templestone Wellbeing✨

We support workplaces to feel more connected, creative and mentally well through holistic art therapy, mindfulness and guided reflection.

✨Our workshops offer a welcome pause from daily demands — inviting teams to slow down, explore creativity and strengthen emotional awareness in a safe and supportive space.

✨Benefits for your team:
• Reduces stress and supports mental wellbeing
• Builds trust, empathy and psychological safety
• Boosts communication and collaboration
• Encourages fresh thinking and resilience
• Enhances workplace culture and morale

✨Half-day or full-day sessions can be delivered onsite or off-site, tailored to your organisation’s needs.

🧠 Supporting wellbeing
🎨 Encouraging expression
🤝 Strengthening teams

✨The creative process provides opportunities to explore and share insights, cultivating deeper understandings of team members.

✨Let’s create a healthier and more connected workplace together.
✨DM to enquire

04/12/2025

✨ Poetry as Healing: Why Writing Helps the Mind✨

Poetry isn’t just about words—it’s a powerful creative process that can support emotional wellbeing and mental health. Through rhythm, imagery and metaphor, poetry gives shape to experiences that are often hard to express in everyday language.

✨Why Poetry Supports Mental Health
•Emotional Release: Writing helps release feelings that may feel stuck or overwhelming.
• Meaning-Making: Metaphors and symbols make it easier to explore complex emotions in a safe, creative way.
• Clarity & Insight: Putting feelings into words can bring understanding, perspective and new awareness.
• Self-Connection: Poetry invites honesty, reflection and a deeper relationship with your inner world.
• Empowerment: Creating something from your lived experience fosters confidence and a sense of agency.
• Regulation: The gentle rhythm of writing can calm the nervous system and support mindfulness.

✨Poetry becomes a bridge between the unconscious and conscious mind—allowing what’s unspoken to be gently expressed, witnessed and transformed.

✨As a holistic creative arts therapist, I often write poetry and also see how poetry allows others to find their voice, reclaim their story and reconnect with themselves in meaningful ways.
(This poem, by me, written during a challenging time)

✨If you’d like to explore creative expression as part of your wellbeing journey, you’re welcome to connect through the link in my bio.

01/12/2025

✨Sand Tray Therapy: Where Your Inner World Speaks
Sand tray (or sandplay) therapy offers a gentle, non-verbal way to explore emotions, beliefs and stories held in the unconscious. By creating scenes with symbols and miniatures, clients often discover clarity, healing and insight without needing to find the “right” words.

✨Benefits of Sand Tray / Play Therapy
• Supports emotional expression
• Reduces anxiety and calms the nervous system
• Helps process trauma safely
• Builds confidence and problem-solving skills
• Encourages self-awareness and inner clarity
• Gives form to feelings that are hard to articulate

Symbolic Insights From a Scene

✨A pterodactyl on a bridge, a lion, and a treasure box… what might they reveal?
Every symbol is personal, but these are common themes:

✨Pterodactyl on a Bridge
Bridges symbolise transitions or moving from one stage of life to another.
A pterodactyl may suggest:
• Seeing life from a higher perspective
• Holding ancient or intuitive wisdom
• Being “between worlds,” preparing for change
• Observing before stepping forward

✨The Lion
Often represents:
• Courage and inner strength
• Protection
• Personal power and boundaries
• A desire to stand confidently in one’s truth

✨The Treasure Box
A closed box may reflect hidden potential, guarded emotions, or inner gifts not yet explored.
An open box can symbolise discovery, readiness, abundance or self-worth.

✨Together, these symbols may express a journey of stepping into personal power, standing at a threshold, and uncovering inner treasures.
Sand tray therapy allows these messages to emerge naturally and safely.

✨If you're curious about exploring your own symbolic landscape, you're welcome to connect via the link in my bio.

(All scenes created and photographed by Angelina)

26/11/2025

✨ Why Can Happiness Feel So Hard to Reach?
So many people chase happiness believing they must achieve, become, or have something before they can finally feel it. But happiness isn’t a destination—it’s a practice.
Psychologist Abraham Maslow taught us about the Hierarchy of Needs: a journey from safety and belonging all the way to self-actualisation—the place where our highest potential is fulfilled. But if that level feels out of reach, does happiness become unreachable too?
💛 Freud believed happiness comes from the absence of pain and the presence of meaningful pleasure.
💛 Positive psychology reminds us that with intention and awareness, happiness can be cultivated, one choice at a time.
As a holistic therapist, here are some key principles that genuinely support emotional wellbeing:
✨ Gratitude & Appreciation
A few minutes each day can change everything. Notice what you’re grateful for, write it down, or express it to someone. Gratitude strengthens our connection to ourselves and others.
✨ Know Your Strengths
What qualities make you you? Which ones would you like to grow? Happiness deepens when we feel aligned with who we truly are.
✨ Meaningful Goals
Set goals that matter—not big, not perfect, just meaningful. Achievable steps build confidence, energy, and joy.
✨ Create an Action Plan
Support is always available. Break your dreams into doable steps and enjoy the process—because the journey is where growth happens.
✨ Identify & Communicate Your Needs
Speak your needs with clarity and love. Healthy communication supports healthy emotions.
✨ Choose Happiness, Gently and Daily
✨Have you considered all your parts- mind, body, spirit, what needs balancing?

✨If you’d like support in creating your own Happiness Plan, you’re welcome to connect with me through the link in my bio.

25/11/2025

🌿 The Healing Science of Nature
When we step into nature, something remarkable happens—our whole system begins to recalibrate.

Research shows that spending time outdoors lowers cortisol levels, reduces blood pressure, and activates the parasympathetic nervous system—the body’s natural “rest and restore” mode.

Nature doesn’t just soothe the mind; it supports emotional regulation, creativity, and overall wellbeing. The colours, sounds, textures, and rhythms of the natural world gently guide us back into balance.

Whether it’s a slow walk, grounding your feet in the earth, or simply noticing the breeze on your skin, nature offers a quiet medicine that reconnects us with ourselves.

🌿 When we return to nature, we connect to everything that supports us, we return to our own inner nature.

✨If you would like support in creating a new wellbeing lifestyle plan for yourself why don’t you try the holistic approach with me where I work creatively with you in rewriting the old pathways with a new mindset to achieve your real goals ✨

21/11/2025

✨ Meditation has been a cornerstone of my wellbeing practice for over 20 years.
What I’ve witnessed personally is now backed by science—meditation and mindfulness genuinely transform the mind, body and spirit.

Mindfulness is the simple, powerful act of returning to the present moment.
It’s choosing to connect with your body, your breath, your environment and the people around you… without drifting into the past, future, worries or expectations.

When we practice mindfulness, everyday life becomes richer, calmer and more meaningful.

✨The Benefits
Holistically, meditation supports physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
Physically, it can help lower blood pressure and heart rate, and support healthy serotonin production—lifting mood and improving overall emotional balance.
It also enhances creativity, intuition, happiness and inner clarity, allowing us to feel more connected and conscious in our daily lives.

✨ Meditation is one of the most natural ways to bring the mind and body into deep relaxation.

✨At Templestone Wellbeing, I offer a range of wellbeing workshops—including ‘An Introduction to Meditation’ (perfect for workplaces)—where individuals can explore different meditation styles and find what resonates.

✨ For more information, head to the link in my bio.

17/11/2025

✨ The Power of Symbols & Archetypes in Healing ✨

✨Symbols and archetypes speak a language deeper than words—they connect directly to the unconscious mind, where our hidden stories, fears, strengths, and longings live.

✨When we work with imagery in art therapy or sand tray, something powerful happens:

🪽Symbols bypass the thinking mind
They slip past logic and tap into emotion, intuition, and memory—allowing us to explore parts of ourselves we don’t always have language for.

🪽Archetypes mirror universal human experiences
Figures like “the Inner Child,” “the Wise Woman,” or “the Warrior” help us understand our own patterns and strengths through shared, timeless stories.

🪽This exploration builds resilience
By giving shape to inner experiences, we process challenges, reclaim lost parts of ourselves, and discover new possibilities for healing and growth.

✨Working symbolically invites the psyche to speak freely, and when the inner world becomes visible, transformations begin ✨

✨This piece, explores natural cycles and the inner creative power of the feminine, an innate ability and gift, something that I needed to remember and appreciate in my life ✨
Textiles are a medium that I love working with as it stimulates the sensory experience and creates a unique feeling✨

11/11/2025

✨A day to connect, learn, and celebrate the sacred transition of menopause.
> Walk away inspired, informed, and empowered — grounded in wisdom, supported in community, and reconnected to your inner strength.
✨limited spots.
We’d love to have you join us — book your place and be apart of this empowering day.

✨Go to the Bio-linktree to book your place for this event.

❣️

05/11/2025

✨Sand Tray Therapy✨

✨A gentle, creative approach that gives shape to what words can’t express.
Through symbols, movement, and play, the sand tray becomes a mirror of the inner world — helping release emotions, uncover insights, and restore balance.

✨ It’s not about analysing… it’s about feeling, seeing, and transforming from within.

30/10/2025

How Negative Thoughts Shape Our Perception..

✨Our thoughts filter how we see the world.
When we dwell in negativity, the mind begins to look for proof of what it believes — colouring reality through a lens of fear, doubt, or limitation.

This doesn’t mean our experiences aren’t real — only that our focus shapes what we notice most.

✨By bringing awareness to these patterns and gently shifting them, we open space for new perspectives, balance, and emotional healing.

✨Mindfulness, creative expression, and self-compassion can help reframe how we see — and how we feel.

✨Would you like to overcome negative thoughts by exploring creative therapies?

✨Go to the Bio for Templestone Wellbeing’s holistic art therapy services.

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