Cassie’s story

Cassie was born and raised in Myrtleford, on a beautiful property next to the Ovens River. A country girl at heart, she has always loved swimming in the rivers, hiking the mountains, and spending time in nature.

Cassie’s early life wasn’t without its challenges. She faced adversity during her childhood, which eventually led to a drug addiction as a teenager. At 17, she became addicted to marijuana and methamphetamine. Yet, by the time she was 24, she had overcome these addictions without medical intervention. She took matters into her own hands, researching human behaviour and applying the wisdom of figures like Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, Tony Robbins and the teachings of the Law of Attraction. Other mindfulness practices, such as meditation and breathwork, had a profound impact on her recovery. As she deepened her understanding of Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Chakra system, she found ancient wisdom that helped her heal both mentally and physically. Once recovered, she found this routine somewhat burdening, wanting to integrate back into society and be ‘normal’.

In her mid-20s, Cassie transitioned into a career in finance. Her dedication and resilience led her to manage a $70 million portfolio on the Bloomberg Stock Exchange on behalf of a Malaysian billionaire. At that point, she believed she had "made it" and thought her troubled past was behind her. However, she soon realised that the corporate world wasn’t the solution she had hoped for. Many people in the corporate world secretly struggled with addiction, much like she had in the past. Subtle patterns of addiction began to resurface in her life, albeit in a more socially accepted form. Beneath her external success, she was driven by fears of inadequacy, abandonment, unlovability, and powerlessness.

She used her career and lifestyle as a facade to mask these fears, curating her external reality to appear perfect in an attempt to compensate for her inner turmoil. Despite her achievements, she was subconsciously running from aspects of her identity that were tied to negative beliefs formed during her early life. Early tribal, religious, social, and cultural conditioning played a significant role in how she negatively viewed herself, along with adverse experiences. She was constantly controlling her external reality to try and fix her negative self-beliefs rooted in the origins of that conditioning.  So, she was constantly running from parts of her identity, unaware that she was the only one giving it power!

Changing her external circumstances did not free her from the mental prison she was trapped in. Success only made her feel more isolated, as she placed the condition of "success" on herself as a way to feel worthy of love and belonging.

Cassie believes that when fear and negative emotions subconsciously drive us, we give our power away in a state of avoidance. Unconsciously operating from these low-frequency emotions weakens the immune system and contributes to illness. To simplify Cassie's perspective, she explains that a person may have developed a negative self-belief at some point in their life, and by holding onto that belief, they unknowingly give it power. At the same time, they try to avoid facing it—because the ego does not want to experience pain, which on a primal, subconscious level is associated with death. Both avoiding and reinforcing the negative belief use up vital energy, causing us to give away our power. In essence, we become our own worst enemy. Cassie has found that most people have multiple mental prisons like this, which further reduces their capacity to function optimally.

While many believe the external world dictates how they feel, as if they are helpless hostages to their circumstances, this is not true. We create our experience through the lens of our perception. However, much of the creation process involves dismantling what currently exists in the mind and this can be very uncomfortable.

For Cassie, her fears manifested physically as Crohn’s disease during the height of her success. Doctors told her she would need medication for the rest of her life. Although she took the medication, she didn’t change her diet or lifestyle for the first two years, and her symptoms persisted. Eventually, the medication stopped working, forcing her to make a choice: increase her medication or change her life. Refusing to accept more medication due to the side effects, she set out to find the root cause of her condition.

Over the next two and a half years, Cassie endured constant chronic pain while experimenting with different diets and supplements to heal naturally—none of which worked. At her lowest point, she felt her life wasn’t worth living, and everything she had worked for slowly crumbled as she couldn’t maintain it. After nearly a year of microdosing medicinal mushrooms, Cassie’s consciousness expanded, revealing the negative beliefs that had fuelled her emotions and manifested as illness in her body. It was then that she confronted feelings of inadequacy, powerlessness, unlovability, and abandonment—beliefs that had shaped her identity and drove her into external circumstances to compensate for them.

Once she reconciled these beliefs as false and unnecessary, her energy shifted. She redirected her vital energy back into her body and began to heal. Ironically, Crohn’s disease turned out to be the biggest blessing in her life, as it brought to the surface the unhealthy patterns rooted in her addictive nature. The disease forced her to live with integrity, embracing a healthy lifestyle she had long struggled to maintain. She now feels humbled by the experience ad abundantly grateful for the wisdom she has as a result. Ironically, many of the same methods applied during her drug recovery turned out to be the same methods that worked on healing her disease. That is because both situations required her to look at energy in the form of beliefs creating negative emotions, resulting in the undesirable physical experience.

By recognising the falsehood of these beliefs and understanding where they came from, Cassie freed herself from the mental prisons she had created. This shift in mindset had a profound effect on her health. With the support of Chinese medicine, she has maintained remission and continues her journey of healing and personal transformation. Cassie is now writing a fictional book about her life experience, which has become another profound tool for her transformation. She closely follows the work of Peter Crone, Danny Morel, and other leading spiritual teachers who guide her in accessing her highest potential.

Cassie is deeply passionate about helping others awaken to their highest potential through awakening individuals to the power of the mind and body.