The best advice I received when starting my own business was to study self-compassion. I was telling my own clients to be brave and be fully themselves but I wasn’t following my own advice. I was always worried about how I looked to other people; was I being “professional enough.”

Studying self-compassion and a few other healing practices have made all the difference in terms of my effectiveness.

I still have down time and a lot of stuff I do doesn’t work out but I see this as part of the reality of owning a small service business. And I allow myself to enjoy the down times rather than beat myself up because I’m not constantly taking care of clients.

It’s for sure a hero’s journey.