This is a question that has come up lately and it is an important one. Here’s why I choose to charge money in exchange for my healing services.

I am not an endless resource. I am a renewable one but holding healing space takes time, an incredible amount of energy, and resources from my own being. Anytime I make contact with an individual or a group for a healing or coaching session, I need to get ready in advance and take some time to tend to my needs afterward.

There is a tremendous amount of soul work, practice, and experience behind what I do. Countless hours of self-practice as well as working with individuals and groups. Countless hours of dedicated study on doing what I do including reading, training, attending workshops, contemplating, etc. You are not just paying for an hour with me, you are paying for what I bring to the table as an experienced intuitive soul coach and healer.

My time is valuable, so is yours. Your monetary investment shows me that you are dedicated to your healing as I am dedicated to holding space for you. It means you’ll show up when you make an appointment (and you’ll expect the same from me). It means that when we get together for a session we are both present and willing to do our best. I used to offer my 30 Minute Chakra Consult for free. It was incredibly frustrating for me in the times that I would show up fully ready with an initial chakra reading done for someone, and they wouldn’t even show up! I strongly feel that a monetary investment is a way to honor each other’s time and help people prioritize my time and theirs.

I don’t need or want your karmic debt. There needs to be an energetic exchange where each party is giving and each party is receiving in a way that feels fair and just to both. Period. I have had transitions in the past that didn’t involve money. I had a client who used to pay me with the free-range eggs from her chickens, which I loved since I knew how much effort she spent loving and caring for those chickens. I have had people distribute my marketing materials in exchange for healing sessions. That said, I find that a monetary transaction is much easier to handle and keep track of for both parties.

It is not sustainable for my small business to not charge. I do love offering free resources and often (find them here) but I can’t keep my business running or thriving, or tend to my and my family’s needs without charging the worth of what I do.

You are paying for the transformation you are intending to go through. My job is to be the embodiment and mirror of your inner healer. When you invest in a bigger transformation (like getting a 5 or 10 session package), it means that you are dedicating more time, energy, and resources (which include money) into your healing. You will experience much bigger, long-lasting, and life-changing shifts and transformation. Often the shift begins to happen the moment you invest in a deeper and longer healing work because by doing that you show the universe that you are ready, willing, and able to go through this soul work and change your life. The universe knows how to listen to your actions. And yes that includes taking a leap of faith and investing in your healing in a bigger monetary way.

In the past, I have given free sessions when I felt that the person and the situation they were in granted it. I continue to offer free resources, discounts, and scholarships to my online courses and programs when I am guided to. (Hint: continue to follow my email newsletters to hear about my discounts and scholarship offers). When I do offer free resources, services, and discounts I fully trust the universe to compensate me in her own way. However, in the cases that I am guided to give freely of my time as a healer two things need to be present: I need to have an excess amount of time and energy handy to be able to honor the healing, AND I need to know in my gut that this person isn’t playing a victim and that they are really invested in their healing, they will show up and do the work and not expect me to be their savior. If these two conditions aren’t present it isn’t fair to me or to the other person to collaborate for their healing. I can tell you right now that my time and energy while going through a pandemic are extremely precious and limited, and I am not currently available to offer any free healing sessions.

You are not limited by what is in your bank account. Ask for resources, signs, signals, guidance to show up for you on helping you decide whether to invest in your healing. The caveat is when they do offer you guidance and direct you to resources you didn’t realize you had, you need to take action quickly. Like when you meet three people on the street who tell you about me or you are deeply touched by an email I wrote or you find my business card at the bottom of a drawer all of a sudden or you get a sum of money that came out of nowhere, it is a sign for you book your session with me already! I have also seen people get creative when they decided to commit to their healing, asking for loans from family and friends, reducing an expense to make space for healing, or taking on additional work to create the resources they need.

Lower prices don’t mean less of a transformation. It means you are getting less attention and time commitment from me. You can still get a huge healing benefit from my online courses and online group healing sessions. It simply means you need to be ready to commit and do the self-healing work by yourself. The group healings let you share my healing attention with others allowing a lower price point and can work wonders if you come in with an intention to put in your wholehearted presence and openness.

You also have access to a tremendous amount of free resources. Please don’t be fooled by the label “free”. Each of the freebies I share holds a key to your healing. I have had people achieve a tremendous amount of physical and emotional relief just by using the Allowing Life To Flow free tapping meditation daily. The internet is an amazing resource for you. You can start with the people I interview on Conversations With Healers Podcast and immerse yourself in their free resources.

My point is please start somewhere! Start where you can and don’t get hung up on the pricing or let it stop you from reaching for your healing. Let’s chat to figure out if I can help you start or deepen your healing.

With love, light, and gratitude,

Damla

I want to speak to Healers, who like me have been trying to make sense of this time while tending to their own light and working on igniting the light of others through their wellness-focused business. You may identify yourself as an energy healer, medium, chiropractor, massage therapist, reiki practitioner, past life regression therapist, astrologist, yoga teacher, sound healer, life coach, or any other way. I know that this time has been challenging for you and your business. Here’s how I feel that you can tend to your business during this time and beyond.

This is the time to listen in and tend to your needs. Give some of your energy medicine to yourself. Trust that your journey will continue to unfold for the best. Be your own healer, care-taker, space-holder and lover. Take the time you need, fill your well, and keep anchoring your soul in your body.

This is the time to be of service. The world needs you more than ever. How can you (within your time and resources) serve better and deeper? Perhaps that means finding the right pricing that works for these times, sharing some resources you love with your community, or creating a time and a place where you can simply listen and hold space. 

This is the time for you to take action and create something new that is yours. When you feel like it, pour your heart and soul into something new, something that you have the copyrights to. Something that Facebook, Instagram, or Youtube algorithm can’t mess with. Something that is uniquely yours and can be made available to people online right away. You will know what that is when the time is right and you are ready. If you feel like you need some help, let me know. 

This is the time to collaborate. Ask for support. Pool your resources with another healer. Make yourself energetically available for the right collaborations. Reach out and say yes when someone else reaches out to you.

This is the time to be seen, heard, and read. Get on a podcast, schedule a Facebook live, write a blog post, etc. Share your light any way that you feel is right for you.

This is the time to review your expenses. Cut what is unnecessary. Save where you can save.

This is the time to take daily inspired action. Check-in with your guides and get to work. Do something every single day however small it may feel. If you need a break, take it, then come back to the table, again and again and again.

This is the time to recommit to your vision and reignite your business. Are you in it for the long run or are you going to give up when it is uncomfortable, difficult or inconvenient? I don’t have to remind you that your journey as a business owner is one of your greatest opportunities for spiritual awakening. Recommit, reignite your flame and put some faith into your vision.

This is the time to invest in the right resources, training, and communities. You need all the support you can get.

My dream is creating a new online community where I will support healers like you in expanding your consciousness and your business (because they go hand in hand). I have so many ideas and I need your help to figure out what you need. I invite you to fill out this brief online survey to let me know what you and your business need right now. Help me continue to support you any way that I can. 

With love, light, and gratitude,

Damla

P. S. If you don’t consider yourself a Healer, consider reading this post where I have written about how I feel you can support the Healers in your life. 

My business is small (well, it’s just me!) and I need your help. Here is how you can support me and other lightworkers and wellness professionals in your life during the COVID-19 quarantine and beyond. Think of all the people in your life who are working very hard to share their light despite their personal circumstances and the challenges of running a small business. Think of the healer, medium, chiropractor, massage therapist, reiki practitioner, past life regression therapist, astrologist, yoga teacher, sound healer, life coach, or any other wellness-focused business owner in your life.

Here’s how you can help the healers in your life:

• Share, like, and comment on their posts, videos, offers, healings, and events.  Turn on your notifications so that you are aware of what they post and show your energetic support with the click of a button or with a heartfelt comment. Social media isn’t what it used to be, everything we put out there lovingly reaches only a small fraction of our followers. Any help you can give would be hugely appreciated!
• Give them a shout-out. Share their websites, social media pages, or posts with a shout-out to them at your Facebook, Instagram feed or stories, or any other social media of your choosing. While at it, tell them why you love following them and tell others why they should do so too.
• Love on them. Write them a heartfelt review and a testimonial. Give them a reason to keep doing what they do and keep shining their light.
• Invest in a healing product, session, or package within your means. A lot of healers, including myself are reducing their prices or making affordable healings available to you. Take advantage of this time and invest in your energetic well-being with big or small commitments.
• Purchase a gift card. Most healers, including me, would be glad to create a gift certificate for you when you ask. Give the gift of healing to the people you love.
• Say thank you for free offers, discounts, and for any inspiration, information, light, and support you get from these people. Tell them personally what a great job they are doing.
• Refer them. Suggest their services to your friends and family. If they have lovingly supported you in a way that helped you navigate your life, give other people an opportunity to take advantage of the gift of their energetic support.
• Make your voice heard. Write to them and tell them what you need from them, ask for sessions, products, offers, group healings that would help you feel calmer and better. Ask them about what you would love to learn from them in videos, blog posts, trainings, workshops or online offerings. Encourage them to keep shining their light.
• Ask them how else you can be of help. 

• Sign up to my email list and access my free resources
• Follow me on Youtube
• Follow me on Facebook
• Join my free Facebook Group
• Subscribe to and leave a review for my podcast on Itunes
• Follow me on Instagram
• Leave me a review on Facebook or Google
• Connect with me on LinkedIn (search for Damla Aktekin) and leave me a recommendation
• Become an affiliate for my offerings and earn 15% of each sale you refer 

Here’s how you can invest in your own well-being while supporting my business:

• Treat yourself to a guided recorded healing session
• Invest in an online course that I am offering to catalyze your self-healing
• Invest in a private session to begin to heal your energetic wounds (take advantage of my 2019 pricing until May 30th)
• Invest in a 3, 5, or 10 session package to save even more and inititate deep and powerful healing
• Gift any of the above to someone you love
• Not sure where to start? Book a 15-minute free chat with me to figure out what makes the most sense for you.

With deep love and gratitude for your presence in my soul tribe. 

P.S. Next week I’ll write about what I feel healers can do to help themselves, their business and their tribe during this time.