Dear Tiffany,
You’re still struggling to see your work as a self-care and narrative coach as valid.
It’s partly because you want to be a therapist but the cost of school is giving you pause.
It’s mostly because you doubt yourself and you get anxious because you don’t feel like you fit into an easily conveyed job description. Life coach? I mean… kinda? But also no? Not really?
But just keep doing your thing, even with all the doubts and the difficulty explaining it.
Keep doing it, because it’s good, and you’re good at it, and you love it. Mostly that last bit.
Carve that job description out of the marble and granite of your doubts. Make this thing real. (Top secret info: it is already real.)
Also maybe seriously start thinking about doing the networking and marketing you’ve been talking about and thinking about for almost a year now. It might be time. (More top secret info: you already have been. Give yourself some credit, chickadee!)
This letter is to say that you are a real self-care and narrative coach and that there is real value in that work and that you are doing that work.
You have Official Permission to do what you’re doing.
Love,
Me
PS – Also, you are a Real Writer and have permission to keep writing. You’re good at it.
PPS – Also, you are quite bad at art but you have permission to keep doing that, too, because you don’t have to be good at something in order for it to have value.
PPPS – I think everyone feels these doubts when they are trying to do something they love and feel passionate about. You are in good company.