218: How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Everyone Else - Compilation Episode

As therapists and health practitioners, caring for other people can feel automatic, while caring for yourself can feel uncomfortable, overly indulgent, or like something you will finally get to once everyone else is okay. When your work is built around caring for clients, a team, a family, and a community, continually placing yourself last is not sustainable — especially when the structure of your practice leaves little room for your own needs.

In this first-ever compilation episode of Money Skills for Therapists: The Podcast, Linzy revisits conversations with Maegan Megginson, Karen Dyck & Melissa Tiessen, Kasey Compton, and Darya Zuychenko about why self-sacrifice can feel so normal for therapists and healers, and what it looks like to build a private practice that makes room for you, too. Together, these conversations explore how professional training and cultural conditioning can shape the way therapists set their schedules, fees, and boundaries; why self-care needs to be part of the workday itself; and how self-love and self-awareness affect leadership.

Linzy also reflects on her own years in private practice and the difference between being technically available for a session and having the energy to offer your best work. Her experience shows why repeatedly overriding your limits to fit in one more client has a cost, not only for your own well-being and your life outside work, but also for the quality of care you are able to offer.

If you have been working beyond your limits, organizing your schedule around everyone else, or struggling to make space for a life outside your practice, this episode will help you look at your needs with more honesty, compassion, and curiosity. Instead of treating your well-being and client care as competing priorities, these conversations invite you to consider what becomes possible when the structure of your practice supports both.

Timestamps:

03:46 - Why Healers Build Businesses That Serve Everyone Else

05:13 - Caregiving, Self-Sacrifice, and Who Becomes a Therapist

06:20 - What Licensing and Training Teach Therapists About Value

07:46 - Patriarchy, Business, and Putting Yourself Last

09:35 - Why This Is More Than a Boundary Problem

10:08 - How Gender and Professional Training Shape the Workday

11:38 - Why Self-Care Needs to Happen During Work