When I began my business I was eager, passionate and had absolutely no idea how to run it but I had a big WHY.
To support women, men and family with trauma recovery and healing so that they can share their inner light and lead with soul sovereignty.
I set up my face to face business through sheer determination to get as much hands on experience facilitating and teaching transformational change, rapid continual learning of modalities, research and education both paid and free plus, buying, sourcing and gathering mountains of art supplies for creative therapy while I ran around like a mad chook networking, marketing and telling everyone that would listen that I could help
All this while I was working part time as a therapy aide/teacher aide in a specialised education setting with children with language disorder, ADHD, ASD and other co-morbilities (high stress environment supporting complex needs).
I was about to sign on the dotted line to secure a position in a wellness centre 1 day a week for the year ahead -- the centre had a registered psychologist, somatic practitioner, play therapist for children and they were very keen to have a creative therapist and mindfulness meditation teacher in the space but I was so new with inconsistent clients and huge doubts about the overheads so I charmed the socks off the owner and he gave it to me at a unheard of reduced price till I had regulars -- never forget that relationships matter in business
However, I continued to hesitate... something just didn't feel RIGHT. I kept delaying to check why...nothing...except a sense that the world would change. (I assumed it was my own limited perspective of my own world)
Then COVID hit
I slumped into a deep depression about having a bricks and mortar business...how stupid that I knew nothing about how to do diddly squat online, tech awkward and definitely, felt even more deflated because creative expression in my eyes for trauma healing is so beneficial and I couldn't do that online could I?
I almost quit.
I thought f it all.
It's too hard.
Perhaps, this is a sign to get out now.
There's too much risk.
Maybe, I'm just not good enough
Then, I stopped and started making creative process pieces including protest art and as I created I listened to business leaders that had successfully, built their highly profitable businesses from scratch, through the depression, pivoted from f2f to online, were looking at past patterns for insight.
Every entrepreneur found a way...much like when my health returned because I listened to my intuition and found the way.
Hope re-emerged.
My biggest learning in BUSINESS is that noone really knows what the heck they are doing majority of the time and landscapes change, so change with it to allow evolving truth to flow.
You have to commit to your mission (WHY) and your biggest believer is YOU.
So with full commitment, I successfully pivoted to a hybrid online and face to face business that generates income, value and personal fulfilment.
The first online E-Book I ever made was in response to COVID-19 and the 14 days in isolation...it has no lead generation, no website, no sales aspect but it renewed my faith in being of service.
Now, I am proud to offer Expressive Trauma Recovery Sessions and Energetic coaching
