31/08/2026
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart to everyone who joined me for the sound healing on Saturday 🤍
As we moved through the transition from winter to spring, I wanted to weave the symbolism of that transition into our sessions.
At the beginning, I invited everyone to reflect on the winter they had just moved through - both literally and metaphorically. I asked them to write down what they had been carrying, what they had learned and most importantly, what they were ready to let go of.
Because before we can make space for something new, we often have to be willing to release what no longer serves us.
And that is the beautiful invitation of spring: new beginnings, renewal and growth.
By the end of each session, it felt as though a weight had been lifted from so many shoulders ✨
I want to touch on something from the final session of the day that really moved me…
The final session of the day was made up entirely of women, reflecting the demographic that so often fills my events - women between roughly 40 and 65.
At the end of the session, I asked them a question I had been curious about: “Why do you think you are drawn here at this stage of your life?”
Their answers were incredibly moving, and as a young woman approaching the next chapters of my own life, I found myself listening carefully.
They spoke about:
Exhaustion ~ the feeling of having spent years caring for everyone else and finally recognising the need to care for themselves too.
Connection ~ wanting a space where they could be seen, heard and connected to others without having to perform or fulfil a particular role.
Rediscovering identity ~ particularly for women whose children have grown up and left home, creating the space to ask, “Who am I now, outside of being a mother/wife?”
Making space for themselves while their children are still young ~ learning that self-care isn't something they have to earn once everyone else is taken care of.
The weight of over-giving ~ recognising how deeply motherhood can condition women to give, accommodate, nurture and put themselves last. And that becomes an expectation from those closest to them.
Learning to receive ~ understanding that continually pouring from an empty cup isn't sustainable, and that receiving support, rest, connection and nourishment is not selfish.
Coming back to themselves ~ choosing, perhaps for the first time in a long time, to invest energy into their own inner world.
They spoke about the challenges of perimenopause and menopause - physically, mentally and emotionally - and how these experiences, along with conversations about periods, were often taboo when they were growing up. Many reflected on how their parents never had the language, knowledge or space to talk openly about these things, and how they are now learning to find their own voice and ask for support to have the conversations that previous generations were never taught to have.
What stayed with me most was that beneath all of these different experiences was something remarkably simple:
They were ready to make themselves part of their own lives again.
And I think there is something deeply powerful in that.
There can be so many seasons of life where we are needed by others - as mothers, grandmothers, partners, daughters, leaders, caregivers and friends. But somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with the person underneath all of those roles.
Perhaps healing is not always about becoming someone new.
Sometimes, it is about creating enough quiet to remember who you were before you became everything everyone else needed you to be.
Thank you to every woman who trusted me with that space on Saturday. I left feeling incredibly grateful - and with so much to reflect on myself🤍
Here’s to releasing what has run its course, making space for what is next, and remembering that we are allowed to grow into every version of ourselves that life asks us to become.
Much love,
Cassie 🥰
