Many of my clients who have their own practices struggle with paying the bills. They scramble to create programs, market them and find new clients, and price in a way that makes sense. It often feels like very hard work. A few weeks ago, I offered a free New Year’s Visioning Workshop. Over 50 people […]

As someone who for many years was a “general practice healer” (and I still do that, too), why did I start focusing on helping people build their practices? There are several reasons, but one of them is that I began to understand in a deep way what makes heart-based practitioners like us different, and how […]

  I recently stumbled on a video of a presentation I gave at a new year’s event some years ago. At the beginning of the presentation, I invited people to remember where they were a year ago, in February 2012, which means the presentation took place in early 2013. At that time, “2013” was still […]

I admit it: I’ve never tried to have a New Year’s resolution, so I’m not in a very good position to say they don’t work. I’ve simply never been much attracted to them. If I am not already able to do something easily (enough), then applying renewed willpower has never seemed likely to work any […]

I live in Oakland, and I admit, happily so. The night of the decision by the grand jury on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown, I was working with a client at my office. Like many of my clients, she had parents who did not keep her safe when […]

I often have clients  desperate for help to stop “self-sabotaging” themselves. I often sigh. It’s sad to me when a client starts out healing work with an implicit accusation at themselves. But it’s common. There are certain situations that incline people to accuse themselves of self-sabotage. Some of them might be: Procrastination Not finishing projects […]

Problems arise in our lives, and for those of us in business, that’s where they show up. It’s part of the deal, right? But some of the problems are especially difficult, the ones that pretty much stop us in our tracks. We’ve tried various ways to resolve the issue, but nothing quite works. This is […]