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Does Business Really Have to Be So Hard?

July 6, 2016

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  1. Elaine Blais says: July 6, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    Yes! Yes! Inspired action takes effort…it is often outside my comfort zone…yet if I am doing work I love it is never hard. Does this make sense…???

  2. Laura Dowdy Northcutt says: July 6, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Mowing yard = exothermic , creative work = exothermic

  3. Laura Dowdy Northcutt says: July 6, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Endothermic

  4. Laura Dowdy Northcutt says: July 6, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Old chemistry terms

  5. Kimberly Gypsy LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    I LOVE you, Allison! <3 <3 <3

  6. Laura Dowdy Northcutt says: July 6, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Debt runs in my family too

  7. KT Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    Me too Laura

  8. Laura Ronshausen Dowdy says: July 6, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    It’s in the genetic Memory of our family story. Would love to explore how to move out of that story

  9. Gisele Cabral says: July 6, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    ME!

  10. Tammy Judd Jenny says: July 6, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    I need some graphic design clients or art buyers πŸ˜€

  11. Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Both actually

  12. Gisele Cabral says: July 6, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    I ask it, and it somehow arrives.

  13. Katy Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Coming to me…almost feel TOO intuitive about it!?

  14. Elaine Blais says: July 6, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Coming to me

  15. Kimberly Gypsy LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    when I’m stressing, it’s me chasing clients … when I’m visualizing and affirming — it’s clients coming to me

  16. Tammy Judd Jenny says: July 6, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    I am fantasizng that they’ll just come to me

  17. Kimberly Gypsy LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    YES YES YES

  18. Kimberly Gypsy LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    affirmations all day and every day <3

  19. Gisele Cabral says: July 6, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    I can breathe freely, when i have money freedom. Ah the air is soo fresh, and light. I do a happy dance.

  20. Amy Logan Wengreen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    love….let go of the heavy. <3

  21. Kimberly Gypsy LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Thank you thank you … so what I need to hear today <3

  22. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Oh hi! I finally caught you live!

  23. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    It’s practicing the ease.. repeating it

  24. Katy Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    How do you balance this with “feeling your feelings”? which is supposedly healthy LOL

  25. Paula Poblete says: July 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    so I love designing educational games for my son… It makes me spark… and then I stop, I freeze

  26. Amy Logan Wengreen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    lol! love ya! Thank you thank you

  27. Gisele Cabral says: July 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Going downstairs to my studio, and being grateful that I have been able to make it finically thanks to my passion i have in art. I am soo grateful.

  28. Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    That makes sense ~ when I’m up, and very happy I meet so many people, but when I’m reserved, I don’t meet anyone and I’m not happy, nor am I being me ?

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:18 pm

      I noticed you posted a flower…many flowers close during the dark hours…and open up again during the light. Ebb and Flow…cycles again, eh!?

    • Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Allison Crow Flanigin I almost always put a flower at the end of my posts ~ or a happy face LOL ?

  29. Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    That makes sense ~ when I’m up, and very happy I meet so many people, but when I’m reserved, I don’t meet anyone and I’m not happy, nor am I being me

    • Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Allison Crow Flanigin I almost always put a flower at the end of my posts ~ or a happy face LOL

  30. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    How do we allow others to help us.. to make it easy?

  31. Katy Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    Like if I’m always upping my vibes…am I stuffing my feelings?

  32. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    Ditto

  33. Katy Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    Be so fucking tender

  34. Paula Poblete says: July 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    I love designing, but sales/marketing is “hard”

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      It is just a new skill and with practice it can be easy! and fun. And I HAVE to plug Share Your Heart & Show Your Work — new class and community launching this fall (sept).

    • Paula Poblete says: July 6, 2016 at 10:22 pm

      just a new skill, I like that…I also believe in maybe fining a partner in crime who would enjoy that part more?. Clicking on that link NOW…

    • Paula Poblete says: July 6, 2016 at 10:27 pm

      Ill stay posted! I am getting “peacocks” all over the place (while awake, not on dreams) and I am told it is about showing your colors… lets see πŸ™‚

  35. Katy Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    #besofuckingtender

  36. KT Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    Thank you ?

  37. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    How do we be tender with ourselves when we are confronted by someone who is totally pissing us off?

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:20 pm

      h man…this one is still a challenge for me. Slow down. breathe and feel before responding. Catch the softball before throwing it back. I took a relationship course that called it “The HOLE” and the idea was when we saw the HOLE coming….to STOP and take a break and then come back.

    • Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      Thank you – the softball analogy was also really helpful. And the challenge I have is recognizing what is happening before I hit the ball versus catching it After it happens I am totally aware that I just tried to smack a home run which usually ends up in a foul ball. What is even more challenging is when the comments coming at us are not intended to be softballs from the other but they really are. The 2 statements you shared are UBER helpful (again being aware that it is happening) are “Thank you for sharing” and “i’m so glad you told me your opinion”. When I change, they change as well. ACP – awareness, choice, practice. Thanks for the HOLE info – I’m going to check it out. xoxo

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:45 pm

      Also remembering when I get that triggered – and start to lose my shit- I remember that my inside little girl is afraid…. And then I remember his inside little
      Boy is too. I parent my little girl and then come back to the conversation. And I never try to parent his little boy inside. That is his journey.

    • Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 10:50 pm

      Allison Crow Flanigin Such a great reminder – makes me think of Byron Katie – what’s mine is mine, what’s yours is yours.

  38. Diane Reiner says: July 6, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    We feel bad because we feel weak. So we still try to push forward and I agree we fall backwards.

  39. Gisele Cabral says: July 6, 2016 at 3:45 pm

    I Stop..and i allow myself to just be in the moment, I feel the sadness, and pity, and I say, Mind over matter. I have a choice to either stay, or change my mood. I then listen to motivational speakers, and that feeling of sadness seems to just go away. It feeds my soul. You Allison, feed my soul, and I am grateful.

  40. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    You’re good on my end.

  41. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    There there, fear, I can ignore you. Ha

  42. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    That’s so helpful

  43. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    Cheers Allison!

  44. Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    sloth tribe

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      buahahah! I love being a sloth.

    • Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      me too. you could start a sacred sloth circle and we could all lay around and watch movies and eat and nap and smile that blissful little smile sloths have!

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:45 pm

      Rebecca Davidson we’ll wait till you get to the retreat. We practice magic… With a juicy side of slothing.

  45. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    I shall play with mine tonight.

  46. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    44 year old here, too. Those little dolls are just precious at the gym, aren’t they? Lol

  47. Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    LOL I’m 50 and I LOVE exercise ( but the fun kind) kayaking, biking, hiking, I’m going to do the March to the Arch ( 21 mile hike) people think I’m crazy ??

  48. Angie Banks Van Kirk says: July 6, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    LOL I’m 50 and I LOVE exercise ( but the fun kind) kayaking, biking, hiking, I’m going to do the March to the Arch ( 21 mile hike) people think I’m crazy

  49. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    This is awesome Allison – I was having this conversation with a client today, and you’re right – she has a total muscle memory that tells her it’s easier to be stuck and in pain then it is to express herself. Great stuff. <3

  50. Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    Takes one to know one. I’m 47 and think every day about how to honor my body. Instead I work, eat and tv and sleep.

  51. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    It’s like my heart rate goes up when I play my workout playlist, no matter what I’m doing.

  52. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    Carry a softball mitt to the next family gathering..

  53. Tammy Judd Jenny says: July 6, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    Thank you! I love Kyle Cease too but haven’t seen that one yet.

  54. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    Wow. That’s life changing for me today.

  55. Diane Reiner says: July 6, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    It helps when we surround ourselves with others that help us heal. Great words of wisdom for some of us that are feeling stuck. Thank you thank you thank you!!! Now going to make the rest of the week easier

  56. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    Brilliant

  57. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    Awesome.

  58. KT Ronshausen says: July 6, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Thank you Allison ?

  59. Kimberly Mae LoSavio says: July 6, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Love you ???❀️❀️❀️

  60. Becky Ives says: July 6, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    ciao! thank you!

  61. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    ❀️❀️❀️

  62. Marica Moseley says: July 6, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Thank you!

  63. Linda Ursin says: July 6, 2016 at 4:19 pm

    <3 <3 <3 It doesn't have to be hard

  64. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    #nutshufflernomore

  65. Linda Ursin says: July 6, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    Pretty much the same heavies as you Alison, except for the jealousy and insecurity. Plus a narcissist husband, and the debt is mostly personal.

    • Linda Ursin says: July 6, 2016 at 10:37 pm

      It doesn’t bother me every day, and as far as your question for me the fantasy is clients showing up, not making them come.

  66. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:31 pm

    Great distinction – hard work that feels easy versus hard work that feels hard.

  67. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:38 pm

    The heavies I keep going back to are worth-related; who am I to ask women to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to work with me? I truly believe this comes from my adoption story – I was given up for adoption because my unwed mother earned very little money and felt like she need a man in order to keep her family together. Whew… that is heavy!

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      What is the light in that story?

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      Can you find some?

    • Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      And thank you for acknowledging g. I’m sorry I went straight to fix it mode. Yikes.

    • Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 11:21 pm

      I love that you did bc we all do that at times. The light in the story is: I was given freedom to find out that I’m an awesome listener and meant to be a coach. That I am a kick-ass seer of people’s truth. That I hold space for women in a way that they don’t typically experience in their lives. All of it has immense, immeasurable value and I love using my gifts! Thank you, Allison.

  68. Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    Clyde says use your softball/baseball mit!!!

  69. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    Me

  70. Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    See. Let me try again. Thank for sharing. I see you. I feel you. I am here for you.

  71. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:43 pm

    I think about finding my clients. Like it’s my job to find my clients

  72. Tammy Judd Jenny says: July 6, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    What was the name of Kyle’s video again?

  73. Allison Crow says: July 6, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    Tammy Judd Jenny. This one.
    https://www.facebook.com/KyleCeasePage/videos/10153665931898062/

  74. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    Music… Painting… Time with my dog…. Sleep

  75. Beth Frede says: July 6, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    I love that Allison! This is so helpful because it’s reminding me to be more intentional about bringing those things I love into my day before business or client attraction.

  76. Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    you already are that!

  77. Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    The brain predicts what it expects. Takes work to change

  78. Rebecca Davidson says: July 6, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    The class I attended last night covered exactly this topic!

  79. Tracy Coan says: July 6, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    Thanks, Allison. “Let it be easy” <3

  80. Cathy Osborne says: July 6, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    My mom used to always say “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” I didn’t realize how engrained that was in me.

  81. Diane Reiner says: July 7, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    Got off the call last night and searched the house for the perfect journaling tool. Not a notebook that is to close to To Do Lists. It can be zippered, hold rewards and trinkets, thoughts but most important get life moving down the easier path!! Great wisdom tytyty

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Overthink Much? I have this mental ideal that is Overthink Much?

I have this mental ideal that is embedded in my brain that I would be able to wake up and move forward with all my intentions.  I can see the clear direction and simple steps. I can envision all the "results" and the relief I make up those results would bring. 

One of the things I'm teaching myself to do - is try to write more from a professional voice for you instead of blab in inner processing out on this little white pop-up box. 

How's that working, Alli?

Buahahahah.... all my sweet and striving little parts trying to hold my life closely to that ideal.  I sense the squirm of these parts in my body even when my "thinking" is clear.

I now know this to be a signal for me to slow down and meet those parts with calm and curiosity. First, I must get past one of my sneakiest and most powerful partsβ€”my "awareness" part. This is not Awareness from my core self. 
In IFS - we call these self-like parts. The distinction is that the awareness part carries the burden and tone of "You're doing it wrong."

I asked my clients to notice the part of them that is "mindful and self-aware." What are the words that the voice uses? What is its tone? 

Is it SELF-calm and compassionate, deeply connected? Or is it cognitive and managerial with a motive? 

OOOOF...sending sweet love and compassion to all my thinking, overthinking, and trying-to-get-it-right-for-some-imaginaryideal-parts, and to yours. 

These parts need our somatic connection and attunement. They do not need judgment and alienation. They are scared and holding ages of fear and pain. 

Hello, inner managers, and judgers, and thinkers.  I see you.  I am here for you.  I see your skills.  You have done nothing wrong.  No matter what you feel, you deserve more love, not less.  Let's just breathe together, and then you can share your fears and concerns.  I am here for you.  I will not leave you.
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In the IFS community, we call triggers "trailheads In the IFS community, we call triggers "trailheads" or say, "This part of me is really activated." Identifying and caring for emotionally reactive parts gives us the opportunity to respond with intention rather than impulsively. By practicing emotional regulation and internal partswork, you can create space between stimulus and response, allowing for more thoughtful and grounded decision-making.
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