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16 | On Keeping Things Simple
It's okay to keep things simple.
Sometimes practitioners feel pressured to come up with complicated recommendations.
A complicated case means someone needs a complex protocol, right?
Not always.
Sometimes, simple is just the thing.In this episode, I gently remind you of the reasons it's okay - and even preferable - to stick with basic, easy (in some ways) recommendations.
These are more affordable. They're easier to follow. They're more likely to stick, to make a difference in the long run.
Try simple before you get fancy.
I hope this is a helpful reminder.
xo,
Camille
Getting SupportIf you're feeling a bit bogged down with a complicated case (or many cases!), I highly recommend getting an outside perspective to help. Here are few options to consider:
- Private Mentoring: one-on-one support for help with complicated cases and/or building your practice
- Monday Mentoring: a community of practice for herbalists + herbally-minded nutritionists
- List of AHG mentors
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Transcript
(00:02)
Hey, everybody, welcome to In the Clinic with Camille. My name is Camille Freeman. I'm a licensed nutritionist and a clinical herbalist, and I mentor other highly trained practitioners who need help with clinical work or with building and growing their practices.
(00:18)
So today, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often in my own practice and also when I'm working with other people.
(00:26)
And that is this pressure that we feel to provide recommendations that we perceive as fancy.
(00:36)
Now, there is this idea, this story, and oftentimes it's unspoken or unrecognized that we tell ourselves that somebody is paying me the big bucks, you can interpret that how you will. And we'll talk about that in a different episode.
(00:51)
But somebody is paying you money to come in and get your advice.
(00:55)
And so some people find that they have the story that they need to do something big, that there needs to be something dramatic, needs to be complicated or fancy or multipart and you all, that isn't always true. Sometimes you do need to get fancy. Sometimes it's a complicated case and there's a complicated solution or there's complicated things you want to try. But a lot of the times people do that and they haven't tried the basic things first. And I'm here to tell you that sometimes the easy and simple things are the most important things.
(01:34)
These things can be life changing for people. Something as simple as a very basic herbal tea with camomile and nettles and, you know, a little bit of calendula or something can absolutely change the way that people feel.
(01:50)
It can change everything. Now, you might be like, somebody pays me for a consult and ice in the way and I tell them I want to take I want them to take a cup of tea and call me back in a few weeks.
(02:02)
That doesn't seem great. They're not going to call me back. Well, first of all, look at the stories that you're telling yourself in your head. Second of all, if you think that this is a strategy they haven't tried. Then it is worth trying. You and I know that camomile tea, when prepared properly and taken at the proper dose and matched up with the right person, can be incredibly powerful. It can affect all sorts of different processes in the body of everything from the way people feel to the way they sleep, to the way their digestion is showing up to different markers of pain and inflammation that people may be feeling.
(02:39)
It can address all of those. And I've seen it address all of those in people in, you know, relatively modest doses, two or three grams a day can make a huge difference. And here's the deal. A lot of people aren't taking a good quality camomile. They aren't taking an adequate dose. They're not preparing it properly, and they're not doing it regularly and consistently. So don't know if it's helping them or not. Sometimes people might take an occasional herbal tea, but they're not doing it consistently.
(03:06)
They don't know why to do it consistently. And some people don't know how to look for changes. Some people aren't tuned in enough to notice or to know what to look for.
(03:16)
And you can help with all of these things, so don't ever feel like something as simple, simple as a camomile tea or a nettle tea or asking people to eat more vegetables or helping them to change the time and the rhythm of when they're eating some of these things that we think are just too easy. And, of course, they wouldn't be paying us to help them. But that's not true.
(03:37)
And if you really want to help the client and that seems like the first thing to do, please do it. These simple changes are often the ones that are most sustainable for people to keep going. These are the ones that can have the biggest impacts in the long term because they are financially sustainable, they're emotionally sustainable. They are something that people can be doing years or even decades from now, that if you make this change now that in terms of the long term outcomes and effects on their lives, these are the most powerful things that we can do.
(04:10)
So please know that, don't feel like you have to always do something complicated or multistep or multipart, that if you haven't tried the easy things first and I say easy because, because of the story that we tell about them, because they're not always easy to implement for people and they're not easy in this in their outcome, sometimes the outcomes are very, very profound, these things.
(04:35)
So trust yourself, trust the herbs or the nutrition, the foods that you're using, trust. That's something that seems simple and easy on the outside, can be very, very powerful and meaningful and complex in the way that it interacts with your client. So trust that matching, trust that it is OK. And also know that many people come to see practitioners because they need help simplifying. They're not necessarily coming for something complicated. In fact, they have too much complexity already in what they're doing and they just want somebody to tell them what is the next best thing.
(05:10)
What do you recommend from here? Because they know at some level that it's too complicated.
(05:16)
What they're doing right now isn't working.
(05:20)
And that sometimes is what they need, so. So just trust, trust this process, I'm encouraging you to do that.
(05:29)
Also know and this is something, a tip that I'm constantly giving, especially my newer folks who are who are newer to clinical practice, that if you have 100 ideas and you have 12 herbs that you'd really like to give this person, or you can think of 18 supplements that might be beneficial, in your clinic notes have a little section called for later.
(05:51)
In that section, you're going to write down all of your ideas, the suggestions that your mentor has provided and your other people in your small group that you're working with and something your teacher might have said to you or whatever, put it all there, all of your ideas about what we could try this direction and maybe some magnesium and maybe if they blah, blah, blah, there's so many ideas, you're going to have. Put them all there.
(06:12)
Start with the simple things. Start where yourheart and your gut are leading you to start in your training course.
(06:18)
Don't forget that, but start simple and write your ideas down.
(06:23)
Don't feel like you have to do all the ideas at once. All right, this is just a small encouragement to trust what you know and to trust that the simple and easy things can be incredibly powerful. No sense getting fancy if the simple and easy things can do what you need to do in many, many, many times they can. Right? So trust it, just the process. Thanks for being here with me today, and I hope you have a wonderful week.
(06:50)
Oh, and by the way, go to my website, camillefreeman.com, check out some of the new things that I'm doing. We're opening up a new section, a Monday mentoring soon. It's going to be at noon on Monday. It's going to be amazing.
(07:00)
Galant and Monday mentoring already. You should be because it's incredible. So go learn about it and hopefully I'll see you there. All right. Take care.
Hey, everybody, welcome to In the Clinic with Camille. My name is Camille Freeman. I'm a licensed nutritionist and a clinical herbalist, and I mentor other highly trained practitioners who need help with clinical work or with building and growing their practices.
(00:18)
So today, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often in my own practice and also when I'm working with other people.
(00:26)
And that is this pressure that we feel to provide recommendations that we perceive as fancy.
(00:36)
Now, there is this idea, this story, and oftentimes it's unspoken or unrecognized that we tell ourselves that somebody is paying me the big bucks, you can interpret that how you will. And we'll talk about that in a different episode.
(00:51)
But somebody is paying you money to come in and get your advice.
(00:55)
And so some people find that they have the story that they need to do something big, that there needs to be something dramatic, needs to be complicated or fancy or multipart and you all, that isn't always true. Sometimes you do need to get fancy. Sometimes it's a complicated case and there's a complicated solution or there's complicated things you want to try. But a lot of the times people do that and they haven't tried the basic things first. And I'm here to tell you that sometimes the easy and simple things are the most important things.
(01:34)
These things can be life changing for people. Something as simple as a very basic herbal tea with camomile and nettles and, you know, a little bit of calendula or something can absolutely change the way that people feel.
(01:50)
It can change everything. Now, you might be like, somebody pays me for a consult and ice in the way and I tell them I want to take I want them to take a cup of tea and call me back in a few weeks.
(02:02)
That doesn't seem great. They're not going to call me back. Well, first of all, look at the stories that you're telling yourself in your head. Second of all, if you think that this is a strategy they haven't tried. Then it is worth trying. You and I know that camomile tea, when prepared properly and taken at the proper dose and matched up with the right person, can be incredibly powerful. It can affect all sorts of different processes in the body of everything from the way people feel to the way they sleep, to the way their digestion is showing up to different markers of pain and inflammation that people may be feeling.
(02:39)
It can address all of those. And I've seen it address all of those in people in, you know, relatively modest doses, two or three grams a day can make a huge difference. And here's the deal. A lot of people aren't taking a good quality camomile. They aren't taking an adequate dose. They're not preparing it properly, and they're not doing it regularly and consistently. So don't know if it's helping them or not. Sometimes people might take an occasional herbal tea, but they're not doing it consistently.
(03:06)
They don't know why to do it consistently. And some people don't know how to look for changes. Some people aren't tuned in enough to notice or to know what to look for.
(03:16)
And you can help with all of these things, so don't ever feel like something as simple, simple as a camomile tea or a nettle tea or asking people to eat more vegetables or helping them to change the time and the rhythm of when they're eating some of these things that we think are just too easy. And, of course, they wouldn't be paying us to help them. But that's not true.
(03:37)
And if you really want to help the client and that seems like the first thing to do, please do it. These simple changes are often the ones that are most sustainable for people to keep going. These are the ones that can have the biggest impacts in the long term because they are financially sustainable, they're emotionally sustainable. They are something that people can be doing years or even decades from now, that if you make this change now that in terms of the long term outcomes and effects on their lives, these are the most powerful things that we can do.
(04:10)
So please know that, don't feel like you have to always do something complicated or multistep or multipart, that if you haven't tried the easy things first and I say easy because, because of the story that we tell about them, because they're not always easy to implement for people and they're not easy in this in their outcome, sometimes the outcomes are very, very profound, these things.
(04:35)
So trust yourself, trust the herbs or the nutrition, the foods that you're using, trust. That's something that seems simple and easy on the outside, can be very, very powerful and meaningful and complex in the way that it interacts with your client. So trust that matching, trust that it is OK. And also know that many people come to see practitioners because they need help simplifying. They're not necessarily coming for something complicated. In fact, they have too much complexity already in what they're doing and they just want somebody to tell them what is the next best thing.
(05:10)
What do you recommend from here? Because they know at some level that it's too complicated.
(05:16)
What they're doing right now isn't working.
(05:20)
And that sometimes is what they need, so. So just trust, trust this process, I'm encouraging you to do that.
(05:29)
Also know and this is something, a tip that I'm constantly giving, especially my newer folks who are who are newer to clinical practice, that if you have 100 ideas and you have 12 herbs that you'd really like to give this person, or you can think of 18 supplements that might be beneficial, in your clinic notes have a little section called for later.
(05:51)
In that section, you're going to write down all of your ideas, the suggestions that your mentor has provided and your other people in your small group that you're working with and something your teacher might have said to you or whatever, put it all there, all of your ideas about what we could try this direction and maybe some magnesium and maybe if they blah, blah, blah, there's so many ideas, you're going to have. Put them all there.
(06:12)
Start with the simple things. Start where yourheart and your gut are leading you to start in your training course.
(06:18)
Don't forget that, but start simple and write your ideas down.
(06:23)
Don't feel like you have to do all the ideas at once. All right, this is just a small encouragement to trust what you know and to trust that the simple and easy things can be incredibly powerful. No sense getting fancy if the simple and easy things can do what you need to do in many, many, many times they can. Right? So trust it, just the process. Thanks for being here with me today, and I hope you have a wonderful week.
(06:50)
Oh, and by the way, go to my website, camillefreeman.com, check out some of the new things that I'm doing. We're opening up a new section, a Monday mentoring soon. It's going to be at noon on Monday. It's going to be amazing.
(07:00)
Galant and Monday mentoring already. You should be because it's incredible. So go learn about it and hopefully I'll see you there. All right. Take care.
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