Is it normal to have second thoughts and significant struggles regarding your niche?
This is a question asked by an Awakened Healer:
I think I am now settled on the pre-diabetes (I helped myself with this, multiple family members with pre-diabetes and diabetes with sequelae such as amputations and blindness, and see how I am able to use Lifestyle Medicine strategies and coach someone else to reverse theirs and prevent issues), and when I realized I was on a quest to learn and teach more about longevity and age-management, I got worried that I was leaving that behind. I thought naming my program Lifestyle Medicine Rx Pre-Diabetes Reversal and Longevity Program, would solve that problem and help me incorporate my interests. In fact, the last 2 modules of my coaching program focus quite a bit on longevity practices.
Then I started thinking about my other interests and areas of expertise and worry that I was now leaving those behind.
It feels like the physiatry/rehab background (neuro/stroke/brain injury/leadership) that I trained so long for, have expertise in, and that I still occasionally participate in is now being left behind and I don't readily see how I can integrate these into the other coaching program. In the past as a physician, I had created Lifestyle Medicine programs for my hospital's cardiac rehab program and for stroke patients to prevent recurrent strokes, and I did some corporate consultations on adding Lifestyle Medicine programs in rehab facilities and in assisted living facilities. I still hope to do some of this in the future.
Since the current coaching program I am creating includes none of these, and I don't see how I can readily integrate them into one package (perhaps you have thoughts on how to do this), should I be thinking along the lines of compartmentalizing things? i.e have a pre-diabetes/lifestyle medicine coaching program in one company, then have a separate company that focuses on rehab/stroke/brain injury/assisted living care?
Have you seen situations like this?
It is just causing me a bit of a struggle as I feel like I am leaving major parts of myself and my expertise behind. I would love to know your thoughts on the best approach.