The Classic Work/Life Balance Conundrum – My Experience

Apr 24, 2025 | Emotional Health, Healy, Personal Development

When my daughter started school recently, I experienced a bit of a crisis.  I had been blessed to be in this wonderful bubble of being her mother. Starting off with intense COVID lockdown times and gradually progressing to building in the coaching work that I love around small and increasing amounts of childcare. But that being her mother was first and foremost what I did – and that suddenly felt like it was crumbling and I now had a child in school full time and that meant that I “HAD TO” spend all of her school hours working. I love the work that I do, but this HAD TO feeling was new and wasn’t comfortable.

The crisis took a few different forms.  There were some questions around what type of work I wanted to do – did I want to grow my coaching business to fill the gaps (but I was a bit exhausted with the marketing – I have been doing this 16 years and the market becomes increasingly saturated with new coaches), did I want to take some kind of paid employment that I could just forget about when I wasn’t there (that felt too disruptive to my lovely coaching practice), did I want to retrain and try something different?  All these questions were swirling around in my mind, but underneath it all was this feeling.  This feeling that filling all my “free time” with work didn’t feel right.  It actually felt really out of balance.  It wasn’t what I wanted for myself, or for my family.

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What I really wanted was to be able to use this extra time to nourish myself, so that I had more energy to support and nurture my family.  But I didn’t feel like this was fair.  My partner had been doing the lion’s share of the providing and in my mind, I was thinking “wasn’t it only right that I step up a gear?”  Makes sense. But those of you who are the default parent will know, it’s full on – from the moment they wake up, to the moment they go to sleep.  And I love it and wouldn’t change that, but the feeling that I needed to nourish myself was real.  
    So, what to do?  I’m a coach, so I know that an uncomfortable feeling is an indication that there is something new to be learnt here – so to lean into the feeling and see what comes up.
    We started to talk about leverage.  We started to talk about different business opportunities that could provide passive income and I thought more about evergreen coaching products that I could create.  Nothing was quite clicking, until it did.
    I quite by accident found an amazing business opportunity and wonderful community that aligns fantastically with my coaching business, my interest in holistic health, spiritual growth and the principles of how I want to live my life.  Leverage is possible.  Nourishment is possible.  Nurturing is possible.  It is game on!
    If you feel that same sense of imbalance – if you have a feeling that you want to exit the status quo of time for money and want to know how that could happen in a way that feels nurturing and aligned, drop me a DM.  I would love to let you know a bit more about the opportunity I am part of, because it could be aligned and resonating with you too.
      If you feel that same sense of imbalance – if you have a feeling that you want to exit the status quo of time for money and want to know how that could happen in a way that feels nurturing and aligned, drop me a DM.  I would love to let you know a bit more about the opportunity I am part of, because it could be aligned and resonating with you too.
      Or perhaps you can just relate to this post generally and can feel that sense that something isn’t quite feeling good to you and you want to explore these feelings and consider your other options, in a supported, empowering space. This is something I can do for you, as your Life Coach. Please book a discovery call if you would like to discuss any of these things further.
      With love. x
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