Space for You

“Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others” ~Maharishi Magesh Yogi

The other day I was talking with a longtime client who is also in the coaching arena. We hadn’t talked in a while and she was saying how there were so many people right now who were needing her services and she got really busy. This was amazing for her business, but she realized in getting so busy she completely stopped taking care of herself. All the things she was teaching her clients, she had stopped doing for herself. They were doing great, but she was crumbling.

How many of us fall into this? Whether it’s our kids or spouses or clients or patients or customers or community or extended family or... We are AMAZING at stepping up and helping them, at taking care of them, but if we stop for just a moment we realize we haven’t been taking care of our own selves, and we are falling apart.

My client and I talked about how, yes, her clients would be disappointed that she needed to take them for herself. They might not like that they couldn’t get in to see her as frequently as they wanted, but in putting herself as a priority she was showing them what self care really looked like. She was modeling everything she teaches. She was truly taking the lesson to the next level. And she was saving herself, so she could continue to do the extremely important work she does.

It doesn’t have to be “either or”. Either we care for them OR we care for ourselves. It’s a balance of both which will allow us to keep doing the extremely important work we are gifted with doing, no matter what that work is. And when we take care of ourselves, we help others know it’s okay to do the same, and the ripple effect keeps going.