Finding Your Voice While Building a Healing Practice
HIP Monthly Business Update #9
Kim and I recorded another check-in, and listening back, it’s interesting how quickly we moved away from anything “business” and straight into what’s actually happening in sessions.
A few things stood out.
We talked about how often clients come in already having done a lot of work. They’re not confused. They can map their patterns, explain their triggers, they’ve read all the books.
And still, they’re stuck in the same loops.
In the session, it’s usually obvious fairly quickly that we’re not dealing with a lack of awareness.
It’s more like something never fully landed or processed.
There was one example we discussed where someone knew exactly why they were holding back in a certain area — very clear, very articulate — but the reaction in the body was still the same every time it came up. No amount of understanding had changed that.
That’s the point where the work shifts.
Not more talking, but actually going to the layer where the reaction is coming from.
Another thread in our conversation was around these very “functional” clients.
The ones where nothing looks off from the outside. They’re disciplined, they follow through, they’ve built things already.
And yet there’s a very specific ceiling they keep hitting.
We both see this a lot around visibility and receiving.
It’s not that they don’t want it.
But when you slow it down in the session, there’s often a very clear “no” somewhere in the system.
Not logical. Not something they would say out loud. But it’s there.
And as long as that’s there, things don’t really move — or they move and then collapse again.
We also touched on how often things show up physically.
Not in a dramatic way. More like:
There’s always tension in a certain area.
Or a sensation that doesn’t quite make sense until you connect it to something.
And once that connection happens in the session, the shift is often immediate. Not because something new was added, but because something old finally resolved.
What I found interesting listening back is that neither of us was really talking about techniques.
It was more about what we’re noticing, where we trust what comes up, where we don’t force things anymore.
And how that’s also changing how we speak about the work.
Less trying to explain it “correctly,” more describing what we actually see.
If you’re in this space yourself, building something similar or just curious what this work looks like in practice, the full conversation probably gives a better sense than trying to package it.
And if you want to experience it directly instead of just hearing us talk about it:
