Cas Watene

Cas Watene Holding space for you to truly relax and embody your feminine energy. Reiki and holisitic healing services.

The more honest you are with yourself, the more honest you can be with those around you.For a long time I thought love m...
23/09/2025

The more honest you are with yourself, the more honest you can be with those around you.

For a long time I thought love meant pleasing, performing, keeping the peace at all costs. I shaped myself into what others needed, even if it meant silencing the parts of me that longed to grow. She was easy to love, but she wasn’t all of me.

True self acceptance doesn’t demand perfection. It asks for honesty. The honesty to admit when I’m scared of being unlovable. The honesty to share the dreams that haunt me. The honesty to cry in Jared’s arms and tell him I’ve been protecting myself by putting up walls I didn’t even know were there.

When I’m brave enough to meet myself with that honesty, I can meet him, and others, with more softness, more truth, and more presence.

This season is teaching me that evolving doesn’t mean leaving love behind. It means letting the people who love me have the chance to grow with me.

It’s all I want for you ❤️✨
17/09/2025

It’s all I want for you ❤️✨

Part 11 ✨ Back to the story. I promise we’ll get there eventually. Sometimes I pause, because I’ve realised I don’t have...
16/09/2025

Part 11 ✨ Back to the story. I promise we’ll get there eventually. Sometimes I pause, because I’ve realised I don’t have to keep showing up every single day for others. My priority now is tending to myself first, and I’m learning that is more than enough.

In May 2021, I attended the International Cake Show. I was awarded Rising Star and in that very moment, all of my dreams, aspirations, and even my sense of self-worth felt validated. Because in the eyes of the people who mattered most to me at that point in my journey, I was the winner.

It was an important milestone, because although I was still looking for validation outside of myself, I was receiving it. And for someone who had been yearning, longing, and searching for that, it meant something. It was given to me in that moment and it filled a gap I had been carrying for years.

This was the very first cake show I ever attended. I was able to interact with people, which I loved, and it became the beginning of the expansion of my career into teaching, into shows, and into what would eventually grow into a huge part of my journey.

It felt deeply important that my family, my husband and my children, were there for that show. The pain was still there, the head tension was still there, and I still hadn’t addressed what was really going on beneath the surface… but I felt important. And for someone who had spent so much of her life not feeling important, it felt good to stand in that feeling, even for a little while.

When I think about that version of me now, it makes my heart ache. I know how deeply she was yearning for approval and validation, and I know I’m not alone in that. So many women are seeking to feel important in the eyes of others. But I also know what it’s like to no longer need that in the same way, and that feels really good too.

This is only part of the story, and there is still more to share.

What Holding Space for Women Means to MeFor me, holding space for women is not just about a session or a studio. It is a...
13/09/2025

What Holding Space for Women Means to Me

For me, holding space for women is not just about a session or a studio. It is about creating a place where the feminine can finally exhale. Where women do not have to perform, hold it all together, or keep carrying everyone else. It is a space where the body is listened to, where emotions are safe to rise, and where the heart does not have to hide.

When I open my space to a woman, I am inviting all of her in. The parts that feel strong and capable, and the parts that feel tired, unsure, or tender. Nothing needs to be fixed or polished. Nothing is too much. Every part of her story is welcome.

To me, holding space is about trust. It is about honouring the unspoken, the tears behind the smile, the moments of silence that carry more truth than words. It is about being a steady presence when she feels like the ground beneath her is unsteady.

It is also about remembrance. I believe each woman carries her own innate wisdom, her own inner oracle. My role is not to give her the answers, but to create a sacred container where she can remember herself, her voice, her power, her wholeness.

Holding space means protecting the sacred, confidentiality, safety, respect, so she knows this is a place she can unravel and rebuild without judgement. It means I commit to my own healing, so that I can show up clear, grounded, and present for hers.

This work is not light to me. It is sacred, it is personal, and it is a privilege. To hold space for women is to witness the return of the feminine to herself, soft yet strong, vulnerable yet powerful, seen and loved exactly as she is.

So many women live with an inner mean girl running the dialogue in their minds.She’s critical, loud, and relentless and ...
08/09/2025

So many women live with an inner mean girl running the dialogue in their minds.
She’s critical, loud, and relentless and it can feel like there’s no way to silence her.

Watching Physical on Apple TV recently really brought this home for me. Set in the 80s, it followed a woman whose eating disorder became her way of controlling the chaos of unhealed trauma. Her inner dialogue was cruel and crippling but as the story unfolded, you realized it was never about food. It was about wounds that had never been seen.

When I first started watching, it also reminded me of a version of myself. In my late teens and throughout my 20s, I used food and exercise as ways to seek control, when really it was just my wounds getting louder and louder, and I didn’t know how to fully see them. With time and different therapies, I came to realize that what I needed wasn’t control at all, it was to let go, to be supported, and to allow myself to be helped. That was when the healing really began.

And that’s the truth of the inner mean girl. She isn’t the enemy, she’s the voice of the versions of you who once felt unlovable, unworthy, or unseen. When you go back and hold those parts with the love they always needed, she no longer has to run the show. She softens. She transforms. She becomes your ally.

Because when our wounds are finally seen, when we meet ourselves with love, true healing begins. And like the woman in the series, we, too, can find peace.

💕✨

Happy Father’s Day to this beautiful man ✨15 years of fatherhood and what a journey it has been. We were just 21 when we...
07/09/2025

Happy Father’s Day to this beautiful man ✨
15 years of fatherhood and what a journey it has been. We were just 21 when we became parents, kids ourselves, learning and growing alongside our babies. Our children have shaped us in ways we could never have imagined, and through it all you’ve provided, protected, and loved us deeply.

We love you endlessly 🥰
(And yes… it’s time we take some new photos! 😜❤️

For a long time I thought my healing was just about me.But then I began to notice my girls. The way they looked at me, t...
05/09/2025

For a long time I thought my healing was just about me.
But then I began to notice my girls. The way they looked at me, the way they mirrored me, the way my words and actions became part of their inner world.

It hit me. My daughters were not only watching me, they were becoming me.
And in that moment, I realised that every time I abandoned myself, they learned abandonment.
Every time I silenced my truth, they learned silence.
Every time I chose everyone else first, they learned to do the same.

So I started to choose myself. Not out of selfishness, but out of devotion to them and to me.
When I softened into my body, when I let joy lead, when I honoured my boundaries, I watched something shift in them too.

Our healing is never ours alone.
The way we rise becomes the way they rise.
The greatest legacy we can leave our daughters is the embodiment of a woman who chose her own soul.

Our November retreat sold out to the wait list ✨ I’m looking forward to returning to for a transformational weekend in ...
05/09/2025

Our November retreat sold out to the wait list ✨

I’m looking forward to returning to for a transformational weekend in glorious spring weather! ✨✨

I feel so honoured to hold space with a divine group of women ✨ .elizabeth .connelly

We will be releasing our March retreat to the waitlist in November, to be the first to know sign up below 👇🏻

https://caswatene.com.au/retreats

As I began shifting my language and telling myself a new story, I also started to notice how much of my healing journey ...
29/08/2025

As I began shifting my language and telling myself a new story, I also started to notice how much of my healing journey was still tied to how others saw me.

My business had come to a halt. Physically, I didn’t have the strength to keep going. In that pause, I toyed with releasing my buttercream recipe, something people had been asking me for. When I shared this idea, I had a great response. Around the same time, I was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the International Cake Show.

Both moments were encouraging, and they gave me a boost of self-esteem I didn’t even know I needed. But looking back, I can see that much of my intention was still shaped around being seen as capable, as someone still “doing something right” even when my inner world was unraveling.

That’s when I learned an important truth:

There’s a difference between showing up and truly showing up.

One is about presence on the outside.
To be seen. To prove. To wear a mask and perform so others know you are “showing up.”

The other is about presence on the inside.
To arrive with an open heart, an open mind.
To lean into your edges.
To soften enough to actually receive what is here for you.

Whether it’s in a group container or a session for your own healing, your intention, outward or inward, shapes the way your evolution unfolds.

Both can look the same from the outside.
But the results are worlds apart.

One keeps you circling the same patterns.
The other cracks you open to transformation.

And for me, it was only when I stopped performing and started softening that my story truly began to change.

✨Are you showing up to be seen, with the mask still on… or are you showing up open, ready to let the moment move through you?

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