The Importance of Being Off

And the challenge within it

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The Importance (and challenge) of Being Off.

And why your wellness business won’t live a long, healthy and prosperous life unless you learn this.

We all know we need rest. Those of you in the wellness space know it so well you teach others how to do it.

Methods to unwind, practices to regulate, techniques to relax and reset when the wheels start to spin off their axis.

But being a solopreneur comes with a commitment that means being off is challenging.

You need to reply to messages, you often work when your clients don’t, you need to keep abreast of research, marketing methods, you are constantly scanning for opportunities. It's your business and your care about its success.

Add into that your love for the work itself - your commitment to make the world and the lives of the people in it a better/healthier/more wholesome place - and you are likely to think about client sessions - e.g. how things might go, how things went and what you would do differently - in the hours outside of ‘normal business hours’. In the hours of the rest of your life.

This overspill shows up in a myriad ways and you have to be able to spot and respond to it if you are planning to run a long, profitable and expansive wellness business. You have to delineate being OFF and ON.

I had a day off on Sunday, a commitment to be OFF. And I began by writing a long list of what I wanted to do on my day OFF before catching myself. I was approaching my OFF time like my job. I felt it in my body, a subtle tension, a focus on getting things done, rather than being in my life. It’s a well established pattern in my system I have to catch and gently steer away from if I am to recharge and reconnect to my life force.

In the past I used to come home from work and remain in my ‘therapist’ state whilst connecting with my partner and friends. I quickly developed compassion fatigue - Lesson learned. I developed a routine to delineate a working day from the rest of my life.

I witness it in practitioners who over identify with the therapist aspect and diminish the rest of the person. It doesn’t end well.

This work asks a great deal of you and you have to know how to

Spot if you are always ON.
Activate the OFF switch and go and be in your life.

Why it matters.

‍Phrases in the corporate workplace such as friction maxing and raw dogging are indications that very many people are forgetting how to be in their lives, how to be in their bodies, how to connect, relax, feel, thrive.

The world needs experienced wellness practitioners to teach, coach, guide, hold and love. And that experience requires you to play the long game with your business.

Learning to be ON and OFF will help you swerve burnout, compassion fatigue or boredom and give you the longevity you need to keep showing up.

Are you working in the wellness space? What have you learned about being OFF?

Lets continue the conversation.

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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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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/