When you’ve been practicing for a while and you feel more secure about getting clients, you may start to realize that what you used to worry about when you were a new practitioner has pretty much resolved itself: you’ve got the confidence you need to practice, but now things are coming up that leave you stumped.
For example, you may realize that you’re pretty busy, but you still can’t make ends meet. You know you should raise your rates, but you’re afraid that you’ll lose clients if you raise them enough to make a living and feel good about yourself.
Or when you started, you wanted to help people who really couldn’t afford it. Now it feels like you’ve got to let go of that as “youthful idealism” because it just doesn’t fit with eating on a regular basis.
Maybe you think about the fact that your work helps everyone, but deep inside, you have to admit that you like some of your clients more than others.
You could be attracting quite a few people, but only a few of them commit to work with you long enough to understand what your work is really about.
Or maybe you’ve the opposite problem: most people who come for a first session tend to become long-term clients, but there just are not enough people coming for the first time.
The second stage of the Practitioner Journey is a lot about energy and bringing it into balance so that what you give out and what you get back has a positive effect on you. Some of the learning themes of this stage are about how to:
Refining your practice is well worth the time, energy and money you invest in it because it directly leads to a practice that feels better and sustains you more easily.
That’s why the resources in this section are aimed at what you need to focus on over time. In this section, you’ll find articles that help you sort out who you’re here to help, how to think about your fees and how to get more clients. You’ll find concrete steps you can take to change things right now and concepts you’ll need to think about for a while.
There’s a huge gap between what’s being taught about how to get clients, and the people who need it most — like hands-on holistic practitioners.
My expertise is in bridging that gap for you, so you can understand what to do, and how to do it in a way that feels easy and natural.
This is private work with me and it’s by invitation only. I offer it to people who have been working with me and to select new people combined with Heart to Heart.
There ARE blog posts that relate to this level of work.
Many holistic practitioners have difficulty claiming their authority because they associate it with telling their clients what to do, or what they should feel. In reality, your clients benefit when you step into transformational leadership and claim your rightful authority.
If your practice is about creating more and more choice for your clients, you need to think about when more choice actually gets in the way of making progress, how to know when enough is enough and how limiting choice in your business helps it grow.
We all have habits of feeling, acting and thinking. I call them “FAT habits” and like pretty much every habit, their function is to limit choice. When habits affect your ability to build a sustainable business and lead to helping only a fraction of the people you’re here to serve, it pays to see where they’re hiding.
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Many practitioners begin dreaming about their practices while they are still in their training program. Were you already champing at the bit when you graduated, or did you wonder if you were ready?
You know what you’re doing, and it’s not enough to get what you want: people want to be fixed… you want them to grow through your work. You long to align your life purpose and your practice.
