Episode 18 Overcome Self-Doubt and Build Your Holistic Practice with Confidence with Keri Nola

The Holistic Counseling Podcast

Do you sometimes struggle with self-doubt? How can you interact with these parts of yourself and still do the thing you were anxious about? How can you harness the power of growing pains?

MEET KERI NOLA

Often referred to as the Queen of Abundance or the Shadow Mama by her clients, Keri's superpower is illuminating your gifts by helping you upgrade your energy & weave your soul with aligned structure.

After over a decade of growing a prosperous practice as a Licensed Holistic Psychotherapist, she retired and expanded her work into the realms of Best Selling Author, Podcaster, and Founder of the Sacred Soul Circle for Healing Entrepreneurs. Today she has a global practice mentoring healers as they transmute the energies of fear and doubt into confidence, clarity, and skills to joyfully and abundantly serve.

Find out more at her website and connect on Instagram.

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• Feeling self-doubt
• How do we meet the parts of ourselves that are doubting
• Growing pains

FEELING SELF-DOUBT

Welcome to humaning! It is so normal to move through periods of feeling unsure and vulnerable.

I think we add to the intensity of the doubt by being hard on ourselves or making ourselves wrong for it … the self-doubt is both personal and unique to our own history and experience, and it is also collective and [from] the community. (Keri Nola)

When we place ourselves in a box we limit our capacity to help, heal, and to serve others in the way we are able to.

If we do not have a relationship with our self-doubt, we continue to buy into collective ideas, becoming further estranged from ourselves, and make choices that are detrimental to our practice and to ourselves as people and as healers.

Self-care principles have been squashed under the weight of western medicine even though these acts and principles have existed for many hundreds of years throughout different cultures.

I feel really strongly about us giving ourselves permission to be honest about the healing value of things beyond what has just more recently in the last 30 to 50 years been deemed “best”. (Keri Nola)

HOW DO WE MEET THE PARTS OF OURSELVES THAT ARE DOUBTING

The parts of us that doubt might be keeping us from literally doing the thing we may need to be doing such as marketing or branching out.

We can supervise these parts of us. We can supervise the doubts, give them attention and love, and still do the thing that we are nervous about.

It is possible to still take risks when you are afraid, that is what being brave is about.

Ask yourself:

• What does this part that is doubting need from you?
• How can you connect with yourself and say “I see you, I’m here for you”
• How can you hold and love on that part that doubts while you still take the brave step and do the thing

I love that our work is called a “practice” and that’s because it’s really just in a lot of ways a big exploration and a big experiment. We try this, we try that and overtime I think we can develop more and more trust with ourselves because sometimes it’s going to feel scary for a while until we do it, and we have examples over and over again that it works. (Keri Nola)

GROWING PAINS

Follow your bliss but also follow your growing pains.

A lot of the discomfort you experience when you try new things and overcome self-doubt is due to the fact that you are stretching your comfort zone and surpassing your own limits.

That is how you grow and develop both as a practitioner and as a human being.

Pain is also a symptom sometimes of something stretching and expanding to bring something new to life and so as a new version of ourselves is coming online, it’s not always very comfortable. We’re outgrowing our old self and stepping into our new self and that is uncomfortable a lot of the times. (Keri Nola)

BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

44 Holistic Tips For Peaceful Sleep by Keri Nola

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Resources Mentioned And Useful Links:

• Embracing Authenticity In Holistic Practice with Sam Mahon
• Practice of the Practice Podcast Network