Celebrate, Reflect and Revive

Anne Author

It's that time of year. Celebrate your successes and consider your learnings over the last 12 months. Take time to recharge your batteries.

How Are Your Managing Your Therapy Practice This

Festive Season?

How are you managing your Therapy practice over the next few weeks?

Are you taking time off between Christmas and New Year? Are you taking a longer break to fit in with school or work holidays?

That’s one of the joys of working for yourself, you can be flexible and take time off to suit your circumstances.

The downside is when you take time off you’re not earning! And this can take time to get your head around. Know that over time you will be able to even out the ups and downs of client sessions.

Apart from dealing with your responses to the roller coaster of client sessions and fluctuations in income. The benefits of working for yourself and doing a job you love are phenomenal.

As we move towards the end of 2022 it can be helpful to consider your business and your life.

Celebrate! 

As therapists, we often help our clients to identify things to be grateful for. How often do we apply the same principles to our own work and life?

Think back over this year: 

What can you celebrate?

What can you be grateful for?

🥂  I've been celebrating:

My 20th year working as a coach and therapist! 

I was delighted when my online course, Designing the Dream, was accredited by the APHP (The Association for Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Professionals) as ongoing CPD for their members. 

🫶 I’m grateful for:

My lovely husband, who supports me in many ways, including in my work.

My family and friends.

My amazing clients who seek help and are willing to embrace the changes they need to make to help them lead happier, healthier lives.

Reflect

Are there insights or things that you can learn from events or situations in 2022?

As you consider the past year, what would you do differently in a similar situation in the future?

What did you learn about yourself?

As I review the last year, I seem to have been working with more clients who are or have been living with bereavement.

Some are bereaved as a result of an unexpected death, through suicide or heart attack. Others have cared for a family member who has died after an illness. Or they are coping with the changes to either themselves or a family member who is suffering from a life-limiting illness, such as MND.

Having experienced the deaths of a number of family members over the years and worked with people living with cancer and other illnesses, I can understand what they are experiencing.

However, it is important to manage my own responses to their situations so that I can be fully present for them. Creating a safe space for them to say what they need to say and that I don’t become emotionally involved and upset. They want someone who is professional and whom they can trust to help them through this time.

I’ve also learned about developing and publishing an online course and growing a new coaching offer for other therapists who want to grow their therapy practices. This has tested my resolve at times. Like learning anything new it takes time.

I've endeavoured to practise what I encourage clients to do, which is to acknowledge we’re human beings, doing the best we can in any given situation, based on our life experiences to that point. And that it’s ok to ask for help. 

Revive

Over this Christmas and New Year I’m taking time off from seeing clients. I do have plans to spend some time working on the coaching side of things. Overall I will enjoy taking a break, going for walks, and taking things at a slower pace. The picture at the top of this blog is of a local walk we regularly take.

Let me know what you are celebrating and reflecting on and how you are going to revive over the festive season.

Whatever you are choosing to do over the next few weeks, I hope they allow you to celebrate, reflect and revive so that you are ready to fulfill your life purpose in 2023. That of helping your wonderful clients and creating a thriving therapy practice. 

Seasons Greetings ✨

There are other blogs on my website you might find interesting at:

 www.annemorrisoncoaching.com/blog

This one is specifically about planning for 2023.  

What Are Your Goals For Your Therapy Practice in 2023

Categories: : self-care, self-employment