Love is Not Enough

Your love for your work may be infinite but your body has limits

Wellness folks,

Can we explore how your love for your work may be infinite, but that doesn’t mean you can offer yourself without limit.

And how these limits might actually hold the key to making your practice what it is.

The context

Many who walk the therapeutic career path do so because it is heart-led work.
Their own life experience has led them to find benefit in the exploration of movement, somatics, nutrition, nature, breath, talk therapy, energetics and they want to offer that gift to others.

The motivating force is an infinite well of love.

But that force of love won’t protect you from boredom, burn out or business plateau unless you understand where your limits lie.

My observation

We are not entirely limitless

With all respect to the quantum 8 figure business crew, we do actually have limits and working beyond them when your role is to hold a therapeutic space can lead to burnout, boredom, compassion fatigue and your business plateauing below your capacity.
I am NOT saying these limits are set for life.

Actually a lot of what I am talking about here is how to expand your capacity; increase your limit; open your therapeutic wings wider but with your feet firmly rooted in the earth.

What limits are we talking about?

Your physical capacity

The maths on how much you can earn from a one-to one therapeutic practice is often done on maximum working hours available each week. Not energy over time.

Some sessions are more tiring than others, some days of the month asks more of bodies with menstrual cycles, some periods of our life have us energised and some less so.

If you are drained and you force yourself to work, your ability to maintain a clean space dwindles.

Some useful questions might be:

Am I looking at my maximum working capacity to make my business work?

Have I factored in time for rest, exercise, food and my own rhythms to see what is sustainably possible?

What is already in place if a life event takes me out of action for a while?

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Your nervous system range

If you are rattled in a client session and move into fight, flight, freeze or fawn your clients mirror neurons will feel it and shut down.
Beyond this if you do not experience safety in your own life - e.g. if your finances are shaky, your homelife is not stable, the systems we live in are a threat - and that begins to seep into your working life, your business will respond.

Some useful questions might be:

Where am I taken care of?

Where can I take things when I am rattled?

What does (relative) safety feel like for me?

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Your blind spots

Running a business, being a therapist and of course, being in your own life will all invite you to shine a light on your own stuff.

The more you work on, the clearer you become as a channel, the wider and deeper space you can hold.

Some useful questions might be:

What do I bump into over and over in my work/business?

Is there a space for me to explore my shadow self?

Do I have any energy for more reflection right now?

These all interrelate BTW

And they are all work-on-able.

Why it matters
The point here is that our “human being” is a key part of our work.
And, alone, the love we feel for it is not enough to keep us going, keep us growing and keep us strong.

It can offer a pulsating beat, beneath what we do.

But, we must take responsibility with ongoing commitment to our own bodies - physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, energetic and our relational lives outside of work if we are to offer the love in healthy, sustainable ways.

And this is often under-revealed in therapeutic teachings.

And unsupported by conventional late capitalist models.

And yet the discovery and integration of it can be one of the most powerful things we do in our business.
Navigating this can feed the roots of what we are growing.

It is why The Treehouse was founded.

To feed the roots with an online community for those in wellness to be held in supervision, to access somatic support sessions and steadily tend to their bodies, nervous systems and blind spots.

You can read more about it here: https://www.catmoyle.com/treehouse

And I would love to know your thoughts here - what is your experience?

Love, Cat

Photo by Chris Yang on Unsplash

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Press bio

Cat Moyle | Somatic Therapist + Teacher | Founder of The Treehouse

Cat is a Somatic Therapist and Teacher supporting + inspiring wellness professionals to do the work these times need.

She has worked somatically since 2001 and her seasoned experience holds a solid and loving space.

In 2026 she launched 🌳 The Treehouse | A Supervision and Support Community for wellness professionals.

The Treehouse sits within a wider vision of eco-system funding and wise counsel for those in wellness - a callback to when communities used to hold their medicine keepers - so the vital role of returning us all to the whole (inner and outer) can be played by well rounded, well resourced, well rested folks responding to their deepest calling.

⭕️ We hold them, they hold us, we remember how to be held, we remember how to hold. Full circle.

Her view of wellness is that it must always be rooted in community and she brings that unshakeable commitment to her offerings.

Based in the UK and Online you can read more about Cat here https://catmoyle.com

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SHORT SHORT BIO

Cat Moyle | Somatic Therapist + Teacher | Founder of The Treehouse

Supporting and inspiring wellness professionals to do the work these times need.
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Through supervision, somatic support and community.
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She works via one to one sessions (in person and online), small group training (with Laura Oseland) and potent online community (on The Portal)
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Her view of wellness is that it must always be rooted in community and she brings that unshakeable commitment to her offerings.

Join The Treehouse to be part of the vision.

MY TEACHERS / GUIDES

I am fiercely supported and inspired by a network of teachers, mentors, peers and friends. I wholeheartedly understand that part of my work is to share what I learn from them. Here are the ones who currently inspire, support and teach me, speak in ways that makes me stop and listen and generally shine a light in dark corners.

Naomi Absalom - thecollectiveenergies.com/