Why You Need to Heal Yourself to Boost your Business

When a client or friend tells me that they are thinking about starting their own business, and ask if I have any advice for them I often laugh and say "make sure you have your therapist on speed dial!"

Now that may sound like an odd thing to say, I mean surely it's more important to know about taxes or marketing or web design or get connected with the best business services providers?

Well actually no, in my humble opinion all that is actually secondary to your success. It's not what makes your business. Your personal growth & healing is actually far more important than anything you could learn from a book.

On an energetic level, your business, however small or large is connected to you, and in some ways you could say that it's an extension of you and your energy field. The success of your business relies on your input, on your energy and at the same time on your wellbeing. After all, if you're not ok, you can't work and if you can't work your business can't grow.

Your are the soil that your baby business blooms in - you are also the water, the sunlight and the fertiliser that helps the business entity to grow and blossom. Without you, the business wouldn't exist, and couldn't thrive. It's your baby and it needs you!

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I'm aware that this year, in 2021 a lot of people are considering self employment or starting their own business as the traditional world of work that we knew and thought we could rely on has been broken and changed beyond all recognition. Couple that with the independent energy of the Age of Aquarius that we're moving in to and you'll see that this is a moment in time when people will more and more be going it alone, working for themselves or building something new an independent as a source of income and fulfilment.

Many people are drawn to the holistic sphere, wanting to bring alternative and often highly effective methods of healing, wellness and insight in the form of alternative therapies, psychic readings and spiritual guidance, forgotten wisdom that was known to many ancient civilisations but that we somehow left behind, or allowed ourselves to be steered away from over centuries, and to our detriment.

But one of the biggest gripes that I hear from these would be entrepreneurs, or struggling holistic business owners is that they have trouble doing the things they need to do to ensure their success. Many of these beautiful and sensitive souls suffer from imposter syndrome, fear of failure, fear of success, are terrified of being seen, and as a result shy away from taking actions that would make their businesses successful. Without the added insight of spirit, one might simply think that they aren't cut out for business and tell them to pack it in. But my experience is different and so is my opinion as a result.

I was once one of those struggling entrepreneurs who desperately wanted to bring my spiritual gifts to the world. I know what it's like to wrestle with those feelings of inadequacy, and wonder why oh why you can't make a success of your Reiki business or tarot readings when you see far less skilled or talented people doing just fine, building spiritual business empires and doing very well for themselves.

Limiting beliefs certainly play a part in all this, but there's more to it than that and that's what I want to talk about today.

One of the biggest reasons that these wonderful, empathic, spiritual entrepreneurs fail to move forwards is because they are deeply wounded, and need to heal themselves first.

To the casual observer that might come as a surprise because surely being a Reiki Master or spiritual healer must therefore mean that you yourself are highly evolved and don't need to do any more healing? Doesn't it?

Absolutely-fucking-not.

I've met more wounded, damaged and hurting people in the holistic community than anywhere else.

To be a healer there is no prerequisite that you have to be completely healed yourself, and that is one of the big reasons many of us drawn to the healer's path in the first place - because we need healing ourselves! It's a beautiful thing to want to share that healing with others and to help them on their paths too, but we have a tendency to forget that we must carry on with our own healing as well. Healing others can be another distraction to doing our own healing and we can use it as a way to procrastinate and avoid doing the difficult work we need to do.

Other holistic or spiritual business people may consider that they have to act "perfect" in order to be taken seriously, and can't allow themselves to contemplate the fact that they have trauma or wounding that still needs attending to. Keeping up appearances may seem smart, but hiding your pain and denying its existence wont make it go away.

Healer - Heal Thyself! I can't stress this enough. 

And it's not just the holistic or psychic fields where you witness this phenomenon - this is something I see in many different industries. I feel very strongly that if we address this issue, we will as a collective see far much more success, ease and abundance flowing to us all.

In my experience, starting a business, especially one linked to healing, will bring up every single issue you have. It will shine a light on all of your "stuff" especially the dark bits that you try to hide from, and that's one of the reasons why most people don't do it. It can literally involve looking at your shadow under a microscope and that's too much for many to cope with - or so they think. But you CAN learn to grow & thrive both as a person and in your business with a little help and healing a long the way.

So before you throw in the towel and decide that entrepreneurship isn't for you, consider getting a few sessions with a decent and spiritually minded counsellor and see if you have some deep and hidden wounds that are the real reason for your lack of success. You may be surprised by what you find!

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If you are looking for counselling, I highly recommend an amazing and very spiritual lady called Chrissy Sawyer.

I have worked with her personally and can vouch for her ability, kindness and insight. Angel Wings Holistics wouldn't be the business it is today without her love & support!

Chrissy is a Soul Path Facilitator, Healer and Therapist who specialises in healing trauma and the grown wounded child. Ideal for lightworkers!

Check out her website here: https://listeningtoyou.one/index.html

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