Ben Carlyle is a Relationships Coach and Marriage Celebrant based just north of Byron Bay. He has spent sixteen years in the business of love — officiating over 1,500 weddings and sitting with couples at every stage, from first commitment to last repair.
He is married for fifteen years to Tarnie, father to two teenage boys, and — as he'll tell you plainly — spent the better part of a decade being a reactive, difficult husband and father before he understood what was actually driving it.
His father was murdered in 1997, when Ben was seventeen. The case went unsolved for over twenty years. When the trial finally came — in 2020, the same year Covid erased his wedding business overnight — the verdict was not guilty.
It was the year everything converged. And the year Ben stopped running from the pattern he'd inherited and started understanding it.
What followed was serious inner work: Men's Circles, somatic practice, shadow work, a 10-day Vipassana retreat, and a qualification in positive psychology. Not as credentials — as a man finding his way home.
The Coming Home Method is what he built from that walk.
He is not a levitating monk. He still gets triggered. He still catches himself three moves into the old pattern sometimes.
The difference is that now, when he goes somewhere, he knows how to come back.