22 – When you feel like you should be further ahead by now
What To Do When You Feel Behind In Your Healing Business (A Healer’s Guide to Self-Trust and Slow Growth)
If you’ve ever felt like you “should be further by now” in your healing business, like your vision is alive but your capacity can’t yet hold it—this episode is for you. We’re unraveling the pain of the gap between where you are and where you thought you’d be. You’ll walk away with more grace, more clarity, and a reminder that your slow path is not only valid—it’s wise.
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Today’s Block
“I should be further along by now.”
Listen If…
🔹 You feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, or behind in your healing work
🔹 You’re tempted to compare your business to others’ highlight reels
🔹 You want to recalibrate with integrity, not urgency
Three Takeaways
1️⃣ You need healing skills, business skills and life skills to build sustainably
2️⃣ Invisible work counts—your nervous system, rituals, and emotional labor are part of the path
3️⃣ Rejecting hustle doesn’t mean avoiding action; it means moving with alignment
Today’s Key Action
Take one grounded action from the “invisible” category: meditate, meal-plan, declutter your mind. See it as business strategy.
Going Deeper
Episode 22 – What To Do When You Feel Behind In Your Healing Business
You know the vision. You can feel it in your body.
But the outer world? Still catching up.
If you’re a healer who’s been at this for a while—whether months or years—and still find yourself thinking “I should be further by now”, you’re not alone. That thought might be rooted in truth… but more often, it’s tangled in comparison, urgency, and spiritual pressure. And it blocks your capacity to move forward.
Let’s break this down.
The Healer’s Gap: Vision vs. Capacity
When your vision is clear but your actual energy, skills, or life bandwidth can’t support it yet, it can feel maddening. Like being in labor with an idea that refuses to crown.
This is often where collapse, irritation, and shame enter. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You might simply be in a season of gestation, not launch. And there’s wisdom in knowing which season you’re in.
You Need More Than Just Healing Skills
To build a healing business, you need three kinds of mastery:
1. Healing Skills:
The ability to meet people where they are, hold transformational space, and stay regulated in the unknown. These are your sacred tools.
2. Business Skills:
Brand clarity. Messaging. Boundaries. Visibility. These skills overlap with your healing work because marketing is healing when done with integrity.
3. Life Skills:
You can’t build a business if your life feels like a dumpster fire. Things like consistent sleep, nervous system regulation, and meal prep are part of your business plan. They clear the cognitive load so you can show up for others.
Without all three, the vision collapses under its own weight.
Drop the “$100K or Bust” Narrative
A lot of healers feel they haven’t “made it” until they hit six figures. But for many, $5K a year changes everything. It funds more training. It gives validation. It builds slowly toward retirement.
Respect your context. Respect your timing.
Success isn’t just a number—it’s alignment over time.
How to Know If You’re Actually Behind
Sometimes the truth is… there is a tweak you need to make. Maybe it’s:
- A healing skill you still need to refine
- A business system you haven’t implemented
- A life structure that needs to support your energy
But the difference is tone. Are you shaming yourself? Or being lovingly honest?
From that place of self-responsibility, take aligned action—not performative hustle. Go slow to go far.
Where we go this episode
00:00 The Birth of a Healing Business
01:09 Navigating Blocks in Business Growth
03:44 The Essential Skills for Healers
08:03 Invisible Work in Energy Healing
10:21 Valuing Your Healing Journey
12:52 Redefining Success in Healing Businesses
15:43 Overcoming Self-Doubt and Comparison
20:22 Finding Your Rhythm in Business
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What resonated most from today’s episode?
1. Meal planning is a business strategy.
2. Pain point marketing attracts people who want saving—not transformation.
3. There is no magic number that makes your work matter.
4. One client is enough.
5. I’ve sat on ideas for years before they became anything tangible.
The time to do it all on our own is over.
This journey isn’t meant to be walked alone.
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