It’s a tricky dilemma…

It’s a hard one. Being a counsellor but also technically a business woman. I’m writing this as I’ve just got in my first batch of leaflets to help promote CHaT. To help me fulfil my dream of helping people connect, heal and thrive as a psychotherapist. Which I’ve finally fulfilled 🎉 But what I didn’t anticipate was the fact I would have to market myself. When I trained in counselling and mindfulness my aim (and passion in life) was to help people through some of their most difficult challenges in life, to be a safe and supportive space for people to heal and thrive. But when it comes to ‘selling myself’ this fills me with all sorts of cringe, dread and awkwardness. It’s a funny one. I’m learning and growing a lot as I try and navigate being a business woman, promoting myself and all the hard work I have put into founding Connect, Heal and Thrive. Can you relate to this feeling? I think particularly women in business struggle with this. I’ve completed training and attended conferences in gender related issues and it seems to be a reoccurring theme in women, this idea of imposter syndrome, where you don’t feel good enough or worthy enough to hold space in business. I’ve even presented to groups on this exact issue but it definitely doesn’t make me immune to still feeling the impacts of being a woman in business. So here’s to all us strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them! 🩷