feeling
KNACKERED?
YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
For midlife women who’d rather lie down
than lean in
Wish you had more of yourself left for your business?
You started your business for freedom – to do what you love, on your terms.
Except you’re not running it in isolation. There are relationships, family, responsibilities, other people’s needs and all the usual life ‘stuff’ competing for your time, energy and attention. Not to mention the weight of the past hanging around.
And when you’re the one keeping so much of it going, there’s often not enough of you left for your business – or yourself.
And no – that doesn’t necessarily mean you need a better strategy, more motivation, or another bloody course.
Sometimes it’s what happens after years of carrying a lot:
the mental and emotional load of work, relationships and responsibilities
years of being the capable one who somehow keeps everything going
a mind and body that have become very used to being busy, braced and switched on
You might be properly exhausted. Or perhaps your business has become yet another thing demanding energy you just haven’t got. You’re procrastinating over things you know need doing, taking forever to make decisions, losing enthusiasm for ideas you’d once have been excited about and watching other people apparently crack on while you wonder why everything feels so frickin’ hard.
And maybe you’ve started blaming yourself for it. You need to be more disciplined. More consistent. More visible. More organised. Get your sh!t together. Sort your mindset out.
Maybe another course, a new strategy or a better plan will finally get you moving again.
But what if you’re not the problem … you’re just bloody knackered?
Because it’s hard to think clearly, make good decisions or know what the hell to do next when your brain is fried and half your attention is being swallowed up by everything else going on in your life.
One thing I’ve learned, both personally and through my work, is just how easy it is to keep pushing through when you’re still technically coping.
But sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop trying so bloody hard.
Join the Knackered Businesswomen’s Club. Sort of.
NOT A MEMBERSHIP (YET). JUST AN ATTITUDE.
The Knackered Businesswomen’s Club is for midlife women who still care about their businesses, but are exhausted by everything else it takes to keep life going too.
Pushing harder isn’t the answer though … maybe it’s time to calm the hell down, create some space and do less.
For now, the best way in is through the Official (but completely unscientific) TKBC Entrance Test – nine lighthearted but surprisingly revealing questions, with a few useful tips depending on just how knackered you turn out to be.
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes – including you.”
ANNE LAMOTT
Creating calm for
transformation
to unfold naturally
my approach
At the heart of everything I do is one simple truth: you are nature – and when you reconnect with it, you reconnect with yourself.
I’m Louise – a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Nature Connection Guide who knows what it’s like to run a business while also juggling relationships, responsibilities, other people’s needs and all the usual life ‘stuff’.
And then there’s all the emotional stuff we accumulate along the way – old experiences, relationships, hurts and patterns that can still take their toll long after we think we should have moved on.
Because the woman running the business doesn’t exist separately from the woman living the rest of her life.
That’s why my approach isn’t about giving you more things to do. Nature is at the heart of how I work and, alongside it, I draw on hypnotherapy, creative coaching and simple ways to help you slow down, settle and create some space from all the noise.
Sometimes that means letting go of something that’s been taking up far too much room in your head. Sometimes it’s getting outside, slowing down and reconnecting with yourself through nature.
Ultimately, my work is about helping you step away from all the pushing and trying so bloody hard for long enough to listen to your intuition, hear yourself think, reconnect with yourself and have more of you left for your business – and your life.
Or, as I like to think of it, helping you discover your true nature, through nature.
Struggling to switch off? Sign up now to calm the hell down.
Join my email list for occasional thoughts and ideas about stress, slowing down, nature, hypnotherapy and generally making life feel a little less bloody exhausting.
And to get you started, I’ll send you The Lazy Way to Stress Relief: Nature & Hypnotherapy Secrets for Inner Calm – my practical guide for those times when your brain won’t shut up, everything feels too much and the last thing you need is to add ‘lower my stress levels’ to your already ridiculous to-do list.
Using a mixture of nature connection, hypnotherapy and simple shifts in perspective, it’ll help you slow down, feel more settled and create a little more space in your head – without turning relaxation into yet another thing you need to be good at.
How to ease stress and anxiety without overthinking it
Simple nature-based ways to slow down and feel a little more settled
Gentle shifts in perspective to help you get out of your own way
Small, lazy-but-effective steps to bring more calm, clarity and joy into your life
Nurture
…YOUR MIND WITH HYPNOTHERAPY
You know when you’ve had enough of thinking about something, but your brain apparently hasn’t got the memo?
Maybe it’s a person, relationship or experience from the past. You’ve thought about it, talked about it, tried to make sense of it and probably told yourself more than once that you really should be over it by now.
But somehow it still has the power to upset you, anger you, trigger you or simply take up far more space in your head than you’d like.
That’s where Hypnotic Cord Cutting comes in.
Hypnotic Cord Cutting uses hypnosis to help loosen the emotional ties to something or someone from your past that still seems to have a hold on you.
It’s not about forgetting what happened, pretending it didn’t matter or forcing yourself to forgive anyone. It’s about changing your relationship with it, so it no longer has the same power over how you think, feel and respond now.
And that shift can ripple out in ways you might not expect, because letting go of one thing often changes other things in your life for the better.
HCC is a focused 90-minute online session and doesn’t require you to commit to a longer hypnotherapy programme.
I was quite anxious going in […] Louise was brilliant at helping me feel calm and ready. During the session I felt totally relaxed and confident. It brought me many colours as we tapped into my subconscious mind. Quite beautiful. […] Quite remarkably, it doesn’t have the same power over me any more. I don’t feel the deep anger, sadness, wrong doing. I just feel like I’ve let it go and it’s lost its bad energy. I can now say with complete confidence that this session worked for me.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
LAO TZU
Nature
…YOUR PATH TO INNER PEACE
What if you didn’t have to do more, be more, have more?
When you spend so much of your life thinking, planning, organising, working and generally keeping all the plates spinning, nature offers something refreshingly different. It doesn’t need anything from you.
My approach to Nature Connection uses simple invitations to slow down, notice what’s around you and experience the natural world differently, without an agenda, anything to achieve or yet another thing to tick off afterwards.
You might notice your breathing change, your shoulders drop or the constant chatter in your head become a little less demanding. There’s nothing you need to make happen. You’re simply giving yourself time to stop, notice, be curious and see what unfolds.
For me, that’s where the real value of Nature Connection lies. It gives us a chance to step away from everything demanding our attention and reconnect with something much bigger than our businesses, responsibilities and never-ending to-do lists.
And perhaps, most importantly, it reminds us that we don’t just spend time in nature. We are nature.
I offer Nature Connection experiences and occasional retreats, and at certain times of year I also work from Bertha, my camper van, parked up somewhere peaceful in nature.
So if you’ve been craving a little more time and space to experience this for yourself, get in touch to find out more.
WHAT CLIENTS HAVE SAID
It was so precious to know that I had permission to have this time for me, being held in such safe hands by Louise and Nature.
I spend a lot of time in nature but usually feel like I should be doing something else, and don’t afford myself the gift of time.
I imagine it’s feeling I’m not worthy of having that time for me, so by being on a structured session and being guided expertly into slowing down, connecting and experiencing nature in a different way, felt like a massive gift for me.
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