by Allison Puryear | Feb 6, 2017 | Business, Group Practice, Mindset, Money, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Self-care
I don’t think a single Abundance Practice-Building Group gets completed without me referencing the spiral staircase. This usually occurs in the 5th week of the group which is focused solely on money (and thus security and self-worth and all the other things we...
by Allison Puryear | Jan 23, 2017 | Business, Group Practice, Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Self-care
It was an interesting experience when twice in a 12 hour period I was instructed to “lower the bar.” Those exact words. The first was Nikki Elledge Brown’s new venture Naptime Empires. When I heard those words, tears sprang to my eyes and a sense of being seen and...
by Allison Puryear | Jan 9, 2017 | Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Work-Life Balance
Remember when you were in school and there was this sense that you could never fully relax until you’d either completed all assignments or it was winter or summer break? Yeah, welcome to entrepreneurship. If you’re like me, your “to do” list is like a mogwai sprayed...
by Allison Puryear | Jan 2, 2017 | Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice
Let’s do this thing, 2017! Rather than my usual, more verbose post today I’m gonna give you a worksheet. Here’s a little intro though, since you know I can’t hold myself back from writing: Guess what! You can build your business without planning. You don’t need to lay...
by Allison Puryear | Dec 26, 2016 | Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Self-care
When Nate Wagner and I first spoke in 2015 I was struck by his passion for his practice and supporting those who have lost loved ones to suicide. His memoir, Sibling Suicide: Journey from Despair to Hope, tells his story from his perspective as a brother and as a...
by Allison Puryear | Dec 19, 2016 | Mindset, Nuts & Bolts, Private Practice, Self-care, Work-Life Balance
I started out 2016 with a blog post called 2016: The Year of Not Hustling. At the time I wrote that I was in therapy and working really hard to divorce my self-worth from my “achievements”. Like my clients with Anorexia, every time I hit a goal I set another, more...