BUSINESS
Taking pleasure
TAKING MORE PLEASURE INTO YOUR WORK LIFE Julia Paulette Hollenbery explains how to add pleasure to your working day…
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great many people get no pleasure from their work. Many hate it, but as a holistic practitioner, you probably don’t just want to facilitate health, wellbeing, and happiness for others - you want to really live it, lit-up by your own inner smile of vitality, delight and joy. Whatever modality you practice, it is easy to fall into the modern normality of busy business, rush and stress. Working in a wellbeing practice can be
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full-on, needing to attend to admin, marketing and bookkeeping, with the demands of time pressure and interpersonal dynamics, as well as doing the actual work of being a therapist, opposite a client or a group of clients. Culturally, we all tend to deny and delay pleasure until after the hard work has been done! Yet pleasure is an important aspect of life, a grounding resource, freely available to you at any time. You are worthy of enjoying every bit of your life, including your time at work.
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