Professional with Personality

I wrote these words a while ago at the back of my 2025 diary. I can’t remember exactly when. I didn’t even do it particularly consciously, it just happened.

Things have been evolving for some time now.

Back in 2016, there was no ‘Temple Divine’, my professional social media profiles were called ‘Clare Bennett’. I focused on coaching, and hosted sharing circles in Glasgow like Self Love Club and Authentic Connections. Whether in one-to-one sessions or in groups, my core intention was to create spaces where people could drop the mask and speak from the HEART. And I did the same

I hired physical spaces here and there, and some felt more like home than others.

Over the next 4 years, I gradually moved into more structured spiritual practices like REIKI, MEDITATION, and I started learning THERAPEUTIC MYTHIC TAROT.

Then 2020 happened, and it became clear how important it was to have a physical space to root and ground into. That’s when TEMPLE DIVINE was born, a temple in the physical world, but also a connection with the non-physical, the DIVINE.

And gradually, over time (that I’m not sure I was even conscious of at the time), I felt a deeper RESPONSIBILITY when posting. There was a WEIGHTINESS, not only in looking after a physical space, but in giving voice to Temple Divine itself. It felt BIGGER than me. GRANDER.

It wasn’t just about me.

I focused on being the PROFESSIONAL voice of Temple Divine, because high standards and INTEGRITY are important to me. This felt like building strong FOUNDATIONS.

But what about the PERSONALITY?

I’m very group-focused and community-minded and I take my responsibilities very seriously. But the work that I was doing back in 2016, that SELF-LOVE is the FOUNDATION for everything else.

Along the way, through prioritising the collective mission, I lost parts of myself.

I found myself always writing “WE” instead of “ME.” I felt like I was speaking on behalf of a whole community, not myself anymore. Somewhere in that, I silenced my own VOICE. Some of you know I even lost my PHYSICAL VOICE for a time.

Things have changed now.

As I write this in

LIBRA SEASON, I’m reminded of BALANCE. Libra is about the scales, the relationship between TWO. Not ‘this’ or ‘that’ but BOTH.

We need NIGHT and DAY.
HEAD and HEART.
LEFT and RIGHT (take that as you will).
The individual AND collective. Me AND We.

This is BALANCE.

Libra knows this. It seeks PEACE, it sees BOTH sides, it weighs things up. It knows that PARTNERSHIP is the truth, that BOTH are needed.

Another DUALITY shows up for me through GEMINI. My rising sign is Gemini, and my progressed Sun has moved into Gemini for the next 20-odd years. So yes, duality is a big theme in my life right now. BOTH. I want BOTH. I need BOTH.

My business needs to be PROFESSIONAL. But it also has PERSONALITY, and HEART, a great BIG HEART.

And I’m here for people with BIG HEARTS. Sensitive HEARTS. Courageous HEARTS. Strong HEARTS.

Professionalism is IMPORTANT. Honestly, it would be good to see more of it in the spiritual community. If people are paying for a service, they deserve QUALITY, and they should EXPECT it. This work deserves RESPECT, and it’s reasonable to charge for higher standards accordingly.

But here’s the thing: I don’t want to sound like every other wellness offering out there, carefully avoiding anything that might not look ‘high-vibe’ ‘nice’ or ‘kind.’

Many people are scared of posting the truth and carefully curate posts.

Raw and Real are fine with me.

Especially in this world of AI-generated content, many spiritual wellness brands are starting to really look and sound the same. A little BLAND.

REMEMBER…

You CAN be DIRECT and still have a GOOD HEART.
You CAN call things out with LOVE and INTEGRITY.
You CAN be PROFESSIONAL and have PERSONALITY.

We cannot be 100% SPIRITUAL. We are HUMAN. And our HUMANNESS must be experienced. If not, it slips into the SHADOW, abandoned, and grows into something distorted.