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The Medicine of Experience

How practitioners who have been around a while bring the medicine that these times require
Reflections on what it takes to be able to hold complexity and uncertainty. How it is more important than ever that we ensure there are elders in the wellness world.

What Happens After the Qualification

And Why the Wellness Industry Needs to Talk About It
Practitioners leave training equipped, motivated, and genuinely committed to the work. And then, largely, they are left to get on with it alone. Why fixing this matters to everyone.
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A Return to Wholeness

For The Wellness Industry and those who engage in it.
How solo working for coaches/healers hurts all of us and how to counter it.
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What Does Supervision Mean

And why should it matter to you
The myths about supervision and the power and longevity it can bring to the work you love
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All The Hats

Why being a wellness practitioner requires 100 skills
It's not enough to be trained in your modality/ies - you must all be skilled at all of this in order to thrive.
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Is Your Flame Burning Bright?

The common factor in practitioners who continue to be inspired and energised.
Over and over the common factor in practitioners who continue to be inspired and energised - despite the current times we live in - is community. The era of solo-practitioners is dead, we have to gather.
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Are You Dissapearing?

Where are you spending your time and energy.
The importance of real human connection for the quality and longevity of our lives. Ditch the 5am starts, protein shakes and doom scrolling and speak to each other instead.
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The most expensive tool in your wellness practice

That nobody told you about — and that you absolutely need to budget for
Behind the Scenes of a Wellness Practice - understanding what this work really costs and how to manage that.
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The Importance of Being Off

And the challenge within it
How many wellness practitioners start enthusiastically working all hours but run out of steam eventually - and how to prevent that burnout just as they are getting good.

The Fire Within Imposter Syndrome

And turning it to your advantage
What if the contraction you feel in Imposter Syndrome could actually become the fire you need to fuel your practice.

Integration Is The Work

And the wellness industry often skips it
A reflection on the wellness industry and where it (or the late stage capitalism it exists within) is failing people.

Love is Not Enough

Your love for your work may be infinite but your body has limits
You can not continue to offer of yourself becuase your heart wants you to. As a wellness practitioner you have to understand and tend to your limitations.
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Thank The Band

And access a beautiful power that money can not buy
A deep truth about the work we are here to do is that we do not do it alone and we must acknowledge that.
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What is the point of self development?

(Spoiler - despite the name - it’s all about the collective)
How none of us can be well in isolation and how a return to the collective is the most powerful form of peace work.
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It’s Not all Peace and Love.

Don’t be fooled - Working in the Wellness space is not all love and light.
How it requires a lot of backbone to keep an open heart and if the strength isn’t there, keeping your business alive is going to be rough.