When I decided to shift back into solo practice, I had a whole story in my head about how it was going to feel....
💠I thought I’d miss the buzz of a bigger team.
💠I thought I might feel like I was “downgrading"
đź’ I even considered that I'd probably have to work more to make it all make sense financially.
And honestly?
That’s not how it played out at all.
What surprised me wasn’t what I lost.
It was what I got back.
At first, it was the obvious stuff:
- More time.
- Fewer moving parts.
- Less constant interruption.
But then something else started to shift… and I didn’t see it coming.
My energy felt different.
I felt lighter and brighter.✨
There’s something that happens when your day isn’t full of tiny loose ends.
When you’re not constantly thinking about:
✦ Messages you need to reply to
✦ Staff questions waiting for you
✦ Things you forgot to follow up on
✦ Little tasks you’ll “get to later”
You stop carrying all that mental noise 🗣️
And when that quiets down…
You show up differently.
With patients I felt more present. More focused.
Less rushed, even on full days.
But the moment that really hit me?
It was heading in to work one morning not feeling rushed to get there to be "on time" for the rest of my team.
No mental checklist running in the background.
No “I still need to…” thoughts creeping in.
🚗 Just… driving to work listening to my podcast.
And I remember thinking:
"Oh. This is what it feels like to not be on all the time."
That low-level tension I didn’t even realize I was carrying?
Gone.
And when that goes…
It’s not just about having more time.
It’s like I was living with a newly calibrated nervous system.
Now... this doesn’t mean solo practice is magically easier.
There are trade-offs.
➤ You don’t have that built-in team energy in the same way.
➤ Everything in your lane is yours to handle.
➤ You have to be more intentional about how you set things up.
But what became really clear, really quickly…
Was that most of the overwhelm I used to feel wasn’t because I had “too much work.”
It was because I had too many open loops.
Too many things half-finished.
Too many systems that depended on me remembering things later.
Too many tiny inefficiencies stacking up all day long.
And once those started getting cleaned up?
It was like unlocking a superpower.
Everything was simpler.
More manageable.
So if you’ve ever caught yourself thinking:
“I just need a bit more time”
“I need to get more organized”
“I need to be better at staying on top of things”
It might not actually be a you problem.
It might be a systems problem.
And once you experience what good systems can do...
You start building your practice in a completely different way.
Next week
I’ll walk you through what actually changed for me:
what I kept, what I let go of, and what I tightened up to make this version of practice work.
P.s:
It wasn’t about doing less.
It was about doing things… cleaner.
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