Running your own business comes with a lot of pressure: pressure on your time and energy, pressure to perform a certain way, pressure to keep up the appearance of success.

As the Owner & Founder of your company you have many hats and responsibilities: accounting, finance management, networking, marketing and advertising endeavours, social media and website management, maybe management of your team members. With all this endless pressure, it’s easy to lose track of your why.

Why did you start your business in the first place?

Why do you want to do this everyday?

Why are you passionate about helping people in just this way?

Can you even recall what life was like before social media? How did you build your business? Network? Stay in touch with clients?

If you are like me, you have a push and pull relationship with social media. Some days you like it and some days you hate it.

Social media is a great way to say in touch with family and friends that are near and far. It provides you with a platform to be informed of current events (well – unless you are in Australia). If you are small business owner, it provides you with a platform to reach millions at a relatively low cost.

These are all great things, but, as we are all aware, social media often has a downside.

As I write this blog, we are in our second winter of the pandemic and closing in on the 1-year mark of when COVID-19 started to impact our lives.

I remember the week leading up to the announcement of restrictions on travel, and our daily habits. I was actually visiting Kingston, part family trip but for the most part a work trip. The work part involved connecting with the wonderful Kingston-based team members that support Find Your Voice Music Therapy’s clients. Little did I know that this would be the end of my quarterly trips to Ontario until… well we still don’t know.

I am curious by nature. I am not curious in the let's dig into the research kind of way. I actually don’t like data that much. My curiosity sits in the conceptual. I am curious about how things work in more of an intuitive way.

I recently completed training to become a Lumina Spark Practitioner. I have had Lumina Spark in my life for many years but recently I was drawn to becoming certified – to take a deeper dive into the work and then to dig into the connection between Lumina Spark and the heart centered work that I do with the Desire Map program.