Heather Glidden - Thrive in Your Healing Business: Do the Work You Love without Sacrificing Yourself

THRIVE IN YOUR
HEALING BUSINESS

Advance Praise

A fantastic, beautiful, and much-needed book. Heather writes with passion and clarity coupled with deep and broad experience as a healer, and her work will make yourswhether on yourself or with your clientsnot only easier but much more meaningful. A heads up to all my coaching colleagues: youll be getting this book for the holidays

this year!

Liza Baker , Health Coach and Founder of the (Sorta) Secret Sisterhood

Heathers book is inspiring, informative and 100% what every healer who is feeling burned out needs. She generously shares her own story, the lessons she has learned along the way and her phenomenal program in this book. Her teaching is easy to understand and just as easy to assimilate and integrate into your journey. With honesty, vulnerability and a charming sense of humor Heather teaches you everything you need to have the healing practice you have always dreamed of having. I highly recommend this book for anyone in the healing arts.

Rob Meyer-Kukan , Founder of the Healthy Musician Institute

Thrive in Your Healing Business left me feeling inspired and motivated. I really enjoyed Heathers recommendations of practices, skills, and tools for personal and professional development. The chapter on money was particularly helpful in reframing pricing and how it is part of the message we as teachers and healers send. This book was everything I was hoping for and much more!

Leila Bordo , Healing Movement Specialist

Heather shares her own journey with love and care. This book is a joy to read! It helped me realize that I wasnt alone with my own struggles in my business. Throughout the book, Heather offers practical insight and tools for self-care. By using the tools that she teaches in this book I feel that I can be of greater service in the world.

Jill C Brown , Advanced Life Coaching

This book is a valuable resource to help any healer thrive in their role. Whether just starting or a seasoned practitioner, the tools in this book are practical, accessible, and actionable. The CLARA and FORWARD methods can be applied to any life situation to help us move through resistance and trust our decisions. Thrive in Your Healing Business will move you from a burnt-out rescuer to an empowered server to those who need you!

Chris Ce , Author of Get the F*** On with Your Life: Healing After a Toxic Relationship

Heather Glidden inspires me as a healer to take better care of me in order to improve my life and practice. Thrive in Your Healing Business is a step by step guide to success and happiness for healers, something we all need. Well worth the read!

Kristi Brower , Author of Relationships for Spiritual People

All healers need to read this! I felt as though Heather was speaking directly to me in this bookwhat she writes resonates so much with what I experience in running a healing business. I will read it again and again.

Anne Thomasson , Owner of Gyrotonic St Louis Central

THRIVE
IN YOUR
HEALING
BUSINESS

Do the Work You Love
Without Sacrificing Yourself

H EATHER G LIDDEN

NEW YORK

LONDONNASHVILLEMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

THRIVE IN YOUR HEALING BUSINESS

Do the Work You Love Without Sacrificing Yourself

2020 H EATHER G LIDDEN

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or otherexcept for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published in New York, New York, by Morgan James Publishing in partnership with Difference Press. Morgan James is a trademark of Morgan James, LLC. www.MorganJamesPublishing.com

ISBN 978-1-64279-515-8 paperback

ISBN 978-1-64279-516-5 eBook

ISBN 978-1-64279-540-0 Audio

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019902398

Interior Design by:

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This book is dedicated to my husband Matt. Thank you for your unwavering support through this entire journey.

In todays world the healing profession is thriving. Despite this, many healing professionals are finding themselves burnt out from their meaningful work. Im excited to share that Thrive in Your Healing Businesses closes this gap by offering you an engaging and comprehensive approach to self-care.

As a motivation scientist and sustainable-behavior-change coach, I have spent decades studying what allows people to create lasting self-care behaviors. Ive found that the reasons why we are told we should do something like take better care of ourselves tend to fail because they give us a one-size-fits-all approaches and meanings for self-care that emphasize future goals pertaining to our medical health and/or weight.

Yet, emerging research suggest that adopting self-care behaviors that we can sustain necessitates cultivating a meaning for self-care that deeply connects with who we each are and what we value, today rather than tomorrow. But how can professionals change their embedded frame of reference and approach self-care in this new way?

Thrive in Your Healing Businesses offers just this guidance. Through stories and easy-to-implement practices, you will receive Heathers wise teachings about how to leverage your resistance, uncover you own personal meaning for self-care, and also learn concrete how tos of making your own self-care a daily priority and strategy.

By integrating insights from spiritual traditions with specific strategies, Heather gives us a one-of-a-kind guide to help professionals in the healing arts create a meaningful and effective approach to their own self-care; one that will permit them to do their very best work while also cultivating time for themselves and their families.

Compassion fatigue and burnout have become epidemic. In this insightful and inspiring book , Heather Glidden gifts us the core beliefs and essential practices that healers of all kinds can use to prevent or address burnout so they can thrive instead of just survive.

Michelle Segar , Bestselling Author of No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness

I feel like this is my lifes work, but I just dont know if I can keep doing it anymore, Sidney tearfully admitted to me.

Sidney was a nurse who was in the process of transitioning into full-time work as a life coach. She had an infectious smile and a determined ability to find the good in any situation. She had come to her work as a coach after her husband had suffered a serious injury. Every day for years, she would envision him recovering, even though the doctors said it couldnt happen. When he finally did recover, in a way that seemed almost miraculous, she felt in her gut that her visualization had made that happen.