What Can I Offer?

As a practitioner, educator and trainer of practitioners, my particular area of interest has always been the ‘inner game’ of practice. My focus is not so much on what you do as a practitioner but more on where you are doing it from within yourself. Is it from a place of love, ease, enjoyment and fulfilment? Or is it from a different place?

I became curious about the fact that we can have all the knowledge and practical skills to succeed, and yet still find the experience of being a practitioner to be difficult, daunting, stressful or overwhelming. I saw this to be true in my own original profession as a homeopath, and I’ve seen it amongst many of my colleagues in all kinds of helping, coaching and healing roles.

In the outer world, we can struggle with particular aspects of building a practice such as marketing, attracting clients, charging a proper fee, keeping clear boundaries or knowing what approach to take. Or, we can burn ourselves out (as I did) through overwork, over-responsibility and giving constantly to others to our own detriment.

What we are mostly up against, however, is always less visible to us - our own limiting beliefs, learned habitual patterns, self-expectations and the corresponding states of being we are bringing to these areas of our work.

We can easily get caught up in the role and identity of being a healer/helper, losing touch with ourselves in the process. We can also find ourselves working in a way that is out of alignment with our own true nature, creating inner conflict and unintentional self-sabotage.

I’ve spent several decades researching this field, and I wrote and published The Tao of Homeopathy in 2004 to highlight the internal dimension of healing work for my homeopathic colleagues.