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Giving too many psychic readings? Sharing too much intuitive information? Haven’t taken a break from working intuitive sessions for a year or more?

You may be on track for client fatigue, which can happen to all of us. 

When I was first starting my business, I had no boundaries on when I gave readings, I would accept clients any day of the week and often on top of full days I already worked elsewhere. 

Eventually, I got so tired and burned out, I had to stop giving readings for a week. 

After that, I decided to start making physical products of the repeat messages I kept getting from Spirit to share their messages on a larger level.

The income from some of these early endeavors, many of which have transitioned into courses in The Membership Program, gave me the space and time needed to not always be on call all the time, and avoiding burnout. 

If you have client fatigue and your main source of income is your one-on-one sessions, just know that the experience can give you ideas on ways to create income otherwise.

Along with that, here are a few other tips to rise above and come back stronger than ever -

4 Ways To Rise Above Psychic Client Burnout

1. Release anger for your clients

When you have fatigue from too much helping and not enough receiving or simply not enough time off, it's easy to get upset with everyone who comes within your energy bubble.

However, most of your clients may not be to blame. It may be only one to two of your clients who have broken the camel's back. 

Take this time to sip some tea, watch some documentaries and wonder how you got here, while identifying the few clients who perhaps need more structure or even a new medium.

Find a way to forgive then -

Ask, how can I provide this? Is there a way I can create a blanket solution that helps all?

Sometimes I find that creating a structure for whatever a person is asking, especially if you are getting requests for help day in and night out, can reduce future client burn-out from happening again and give you some action steps for how to recover now. 

2. Try the 80/20 principle

It states that 80% of your money may only come from 20% of your gifts and talents and is a great read.

You can tap into it in the psychic world. When you’re feeling fatigue, after you rest, time to get back to the computer and crunch some numbers. 

Is there one product or service that makes you lots of your income? Is there a way you can promote that more? Or diversify it?

What the answer to these numbers are, may not be something you enjoy tremendously yet. So after you see what is making you the most money, think about a way to restructure it or offer it, where it does become something you enjoy.

3. Have Off Hours

Even if your schedule is known to be free-flowing, schedule off hours.

If you're reading this article, at this point, you already know your Spirit Guides will alert you with an emergency, and you probably also know how to disconnect so you can clearly feel it when it happens. 

So what about creating off work hours? 

Unless something is on fire, then it waits until Monday, or Tuesday. 

Some intuitives do resort scheduling and work Saturdays, but start later in the work-week. Others don't open until 10am but usually stay on later in the day, like around 7pm.

Then, clients out of your time zone can move to distance reading and healings. These are just a few ideas. There are many ways you can work a break in while still getting the work done your Spirit Guides want you to do. 

If someone hits you up for advice outside of these boundaries, take notice who those people are. Be supportive if you have it within you, then ask your guides to remind you that it can wait until you're back at your desk. 

About four years ago, I asked my guides not to show me anything after 7pm eastern. Since then, unless I am asked for help from a dear family member or teaching a night class, this rule stays in tact. 

Writing out your schedule on a website or even at your desk helps.

You may even just mentally tell yourself - I don't work Sundays and that's it.

You can resort to an old shamanic or psychic rule, for example, in some cultures it’s bad luck to work certain days.

Feel free to be mystical and playful about your hours and so long as they are consistent, it usually works in this field. Having work boundaries helps you have recharge time so you can give more when you are on. 

4. Give yourself pro-bono limits

This tip comes from the photography field. Photographers are often asked to work philanthropy events for free, even if the event is making millions of dollars and they now have internal rules for this.

I find these guidelines to be effective for other fields, including intuitive work. 

When a high profile event or person asks you to work pro-bono you may want to do it if it works for you, but also know the publicity may not be worth the resentment or imbalance of energy you may feel in the end. 

Create in-kind giving boundaries in a spreadsheet. Develop a number of hours you want to free-give a year or a fiscal value of work you’re willing to give away.

Look at last year’s taxes, people often do an in-kind maximum of 10-20% of their profit after taxes or a certain number of hours, for example, lawyers give an average of 37 hours pro-bono hours per year.

Having a non-profit (in-kind and pro-bono) allowance keeps you generous as a business but also keeps your books and emotions balanced. 

Then, for in-kind giving, weigh these questions:

• Is there evidence this person has taken my advice in the past and valued it? Is it worth my investment to give again? How did I feel last time I gave to this (name person or event)? 

• Is giving to this person going to offer a relatively equal in-kind reward? What is the market value of that in-kind and does it relatively match the market value of what is being asked of me? 

• Have I given to this event or person in the past, and seen a huge boost in my own business, personal feeling of satisfaction, or level of receiving?

• Does giving to this person, effort or cause make my soul personally dance? 

The answers to these questions can help you decide where to give next time.

Balancing your giving books can help you identify areas where you are disproportionately giving and create goals of future giving for upcoming years that cause you to feel good and excited not undervalued.  

Finally, know Spirit does want you to be able to eat, pay your bills and feel good. They also want their healers to be happy and feel cared for.

Higher quality food, positive environment and living establishments for you, usually means clearer, higher quality messages and services through you, so they often do want to support balancing pro-bono work. 

When experiencing client fatigue, know this normally sign your bottom line needs balancing.

Once you know what’s out of balance, more sustainability can be created in the future. It's usually also a sign of business growth, because it showcases a demand for your work. 

Meaning, in the end, client fatigue can be a sign of good things to come. 

However, use this opportunity to ask yourself a few questions, so you can restructure and come back stronger than ever.

Consider offering something to your clients as a group, new business hours, or looking at your highest return areas that are easiest for you to develop and expand there. 

Everyone is usually just trying to balance their bottom line, so when you do get client fatigue, having forgiveness helps. 

But know, you can learn to love and help from a distance, even add a new service for the things others are asking for you, or ask your assistant, manager or creative family member their two thoughts, to use this time for the overall greater good.

All of course, after you take a nap and have a bowl of soup.

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