Being a well-being professional can be a lonely business and the reality of developing a sustainable practice can feel overwhelming. Add in perimenopause, caring commitments or ill-health and things start to get extremely chewy. We start to wonder:
How can I make my work sustainable?
How can I stand out in a noisy world and be authentic?
How do I balance meaningful work with making a living?
When I’m eyeballing burnout, yet again, what can I do differently this time?
When the hell will I stop comparing myself to others?
Instead of signing up for yet another training, joining a money masterclass, or grappling with another bit of software, you need to know that you already have everything you need inside you in your cyclical nature.
“There’s no one-size fits all solution for a successful practice, it’s a cyclical process of discovery that’s unique to you.”
Whether you are menstruating, in perimenopause, in your Second Spring or beyond I can show you how to tap into the inner seasons as they show up for you. This seasonal model helps us to work with kindness to ourselves, gives us access to a wider range of our skills and gifts, deepens our relationship to ourselves and to others, helps us model and share great self-care with our clients and develop our business to be sustainable for us and the planet and most importantly, meaningful.
With an embodied awareness we can recognise our inner seasons and know when to develop ideas, put them into action, reflect and edit, rest and plan.
I am always being asked if I provide professional training, but I love the intimacy, safety and responsiveness that 1-2-1 professional mentoring offers. I serve complementary therapists, yoga teachers, coaches and other wellbeing professionals who are looking for a way forward towards an authentic, sustainable practice that nourishes their client group and themselves, using the inner seasons as a guide. Mentoring is a safe, private space for you to drop your bundle, reflect and clarify what you want in your professional life, and drop into your wisdom to find your path. We none of us can do this alone, we need to lean into safe, nourishing spaces to get there.
Kate's mentoring is really supportive and has helped me to process my thoughts on current work and money challenges. Following the calls, I feel more resourced and clear-headed, and confident about my next course of action.
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Our practice is process
Our personal process cycles through our lives and our work is no different; it shows us the way to grow, often painfully! Having a space to soften around these issues and be curious about them, instead of trying to ignore or fix them can help us to open to the potential of our work and consequently our own potential.
I can hold space for you to:
- Reflect
- Celebrate yourself
- Offload
- Find ways through your blocks
- Allow yourself to fail and get back up again
- Create healthier boundaries
- Work out how to be kinder to yourself
- Access your deep wisdom
- Reflect on your online presence
- Communicate to your client group
Showing up authentically is much less exhausting!
Sessions pay attention to both your inner and outer needs. Using a version of a Medicine Circle to access your inner wisdom, then grounding the wisdom with accountable tasks is a very effective combination.
What happens?
You are the authority on you, so I work with conscious listening to help you navigate your way to solutions that work for you to bring your unique skills and gifts to the world.
If you’re not already familiar the inner seasons, I can cue you into your somatic experience to guide your work and also help you to share a cyclical lens with your clients.
If you want feedback on your offerings I have 30 years’ experience aa a self-employed wellbeing professional, and can help you to find a way to structure any changes that feel good for you to make. I can then give you accountability for what you choose to do.
When you want to understand the deeper patterns that might be blocking you and gentle ways to move forward, I use Medicine Circles to access your inner wisdom, these have been central to the development of my practice in the last few years.
The most important concern is always to look at how you can weave more self-care into your life.
My story
I have 30+ years of experience working in wellbeing. Reiki was my first experience of healing practice in the early 1990s, and over the following years I have struggled with every aspect of self-employment. I’ve had no clients for ages, I’ve burnt out more than once, made many websites, done no marketing and terrible marketing, inauthentic marketing, too much and too little, felt my boundaries to be wibbly; all kinds of difficult things. This is how I come to mentor from a place of humble kindness.
Coming from a psychotherapy background where supervision was mandatory, I benefitted hugely from leaning into a regular support. This is how I support myself now.
It’s been a tough learning experience and over the years I have refined, developed and shifted my offerings and how they’re presented so that I can sit more comfortably with myself.
I love being around wellbeing folk; you’re my people! I founded the PAPA Birth Network which ran for many years and at Kate Codrington Online offered mentoring and online and in-person courses for support therapists, healers and facilitators. As part of my menopausal letting go I released the courses and groups but I find now I miss the 1-2-1 aspect of working with therapist-types and am offering mentoring again.
Your next step
Professional support is available in the strong container of the Doula service. You are welcome to go ahead and book or we can have a chat first to see if we’re a good fit.