We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Emily Romero a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Emily, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

After five years in private practice and thirteen years of being a therapist, I took a big leap by following my intuition to shut down my therapy practice. It was a scary thing to venture into the unknown but I’ve learned that listening to the inner whisper is always worth it. I’d spent over a decade empowering other women to chase their dreams and I knew I needed to do the same. After wading through the liminal in-between space, I eventually received clarity about the next steps and have now published two books. My most recent book is all about learning to trust yourself – the exact thing that allowed me to take such a big risk in my business.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The #1 reason people were coming to see me in therapy was because they didn’t trust themselves. That doesn’t mean that they always knew that’s what was bringing them in. Sometimes it was hidden under all sorts of other “presenting problems”. But underneath the words they said in the first sessions, when we got to the heart of it, that’s what we discovered. They were outsourcing their decision, stuck in indecision, anxious, overwhelmed and overthinking everything. So, I decided to find a way to make it simpler for all of us and created a framework to guide people back to themselves. A compass for Self-Trust. This compass became the foundation for The Self-Trust Model™. I began offering this framework to my individual clients and running group retreats centered around these practices. Eventually, the insights from this model led to me taking a dose of my own medicine. I had to trust myself to close my practice and offer this model to people in a new way. This is why I wrote my newest book: You Can Trust Yourself. So other people can use this framework in their own lives and feel confident in the decisions they make.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

“Following someone else’s path will get me where I want to go.”
When I first decided to open my private practice there were plenty of “experts” who wanted to tell me how to do it. There were even other practice owners who wanted me to do it their way. But I had my own ideas of how I wanted to work with clients and how I wanted my business to run. It was another opportunity to tune into my own inner wisdom instead of blindly following what others had done. I’ve learned how to seek guidance from those who have done what I want to do, but ultimately filtering it through my own system to decide what’s right for me.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

There are countless therapeutic trainings and modalities you can get trained in. While beneficial, I think the single most important thing you can do – is learning to trust yourself. When you trust yourself, you not only become decisive… but confident in your decisions.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.curiosityrising.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curiosityrising
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-sloan-curiosity/
• Other: Substack: https://curiosityrising.substack.com
  Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-self-trust-podcast/id1790070732