How to Find Peace in Business without Losing Yourself in the Process

For the creative, spiritual entrepreneur who’s tired of needing an escape to find peace

When you think of ways on how to find peace, your mind may drift to a cabin in the woods—where your phone is off, your inbox is empty, and all you hear are the sounds of the trees swaying like a lullaby. 

Or maybe it’s you in Bali—feet buried in warm sand, sipping something sweet from a coconut, your laptop tucked far away, finally exhaling for the first time in what feels like years.

Maybe it’s the fantasy of “one day”—when your brand finally hits six figures a month… or your book is published… or the retreat you’ve been dreaming up sells out with ease… and then you can finally rest.

But the harsh truth that many creative entrepreneurs and soulful women discover after pouring themselves into their dreams: is that peaceful “one day” never seems to arrive.

Because we’ve been taught to believe that peace is something you earn. That you only get to have peace once everything in your business is perfectly in place—your offers refined, your dream clients secured, your Dubsado workflows dialed in, your social media posts scheduled for the next three weeks, and your calendar finally has more white space than Zoom calls.

But from my own experience, and in the lives of many soulful, heart-led creative women that I’ve had the honor of working with, what I’ve found is that peace is actually not a prize that can come only after the hustle. In fact, if it is, it will never seem to arrive… because the business was built through stress, not peace as the foundation.

And the only way to experience peace– not only “one day” but everyday, is to no longer “wait” for it. And instead find peace even in the messy middle.

As in your Monday morning admin fog, when you’re half-dressed with matcha in one hand and trying to remember the password to your course platform.

Or while editing a half-finished blog post at midnight, not because you “should,” but because the words keep pouring and something in you feels tender and alive.

Or when you’re sending out a client proposal– you’re used to being nervous, heart fluttering, wondering if they’ll see your value—but this time, you’re grounded in your own knowing, whether they say yes or not.

Peace can be there in the background as you hold space for a launch that didn’t go according to what you planned, and yet you are un-bothered because you no longer make a “failed launch” mean anything about you.

It can live in the pauses between the stream of words you pour from your soul into your Substack…
in the warmth of a candle burning beside your sketchpad…
in the soft smile that appears when you stop rushing your nervous system to keep up with your to-do list.

It’s a living enlightenment– a liberation when you realize that you can find peace at every moment. And your creative business can be the very altar that peace breathes. 

The Backwards Belief That Keeps Creatives Burnt Out

However, many of us—especially those who lived through the hustle culture, the self-help porn, and the endless cycle of “fixing ourselves”—were taught to believe that we must do first in order to have peace later.

That your best ideas come under pressure.
That anxiety and overthinking are the price you pay for creating meaningful work.

This backwards thinking has left so many visionary women running soulful businesses—branding studios, coaching practices, design work, healing spaces—secretly tired, burnt out, exhausted.

So you may light candles on your desk but still feel disconnected.
Or you may design intuitive websites that speak for others, but can’t find the words for your own homepage.
Or you may guide others into deeper alignment but find yourself stressing about an upcoming launch.
Or you may smile brightly on a Zoom call but cry quietly while washing the dishes afterward, wondering if any of this is actually working.

And maybe you’ve felt that too—that inner turmoil when you realize that running your own business wasn’t going to be as easeful, creative, or liberating as how you once thought it would be.
Instead, the dread can drown you as you find that:

• Your inbox is full of half-replied messages, and you feel guilty about every single one.

• You’re halfway through editing your latest creation, but it’s been sitting untouched for weeks.

• Your VA just asked you for brand voice clarity (again)—and you’re wondering if you even feel clear anymore.

• You’re showing up on Instagram, posting your heart—but the algorithm makes you question if it’s enough.

• You love your work… but monetizing it makes your chest tighten. The pressure to sell sometimes makes you want to scrap it all and disappear.

If you feel any of this, know that you are not alone, my love.
And that it’s not a weakness or a failure.
Rather, it’s simply your soul telling you that she is tired of working backward. She is tired of chasing success and dreams, hoping that “someday” you will enter a finish line where you can finally find peace. 

Instead, she’s craving peace as you are. Not only in the quiet hours once your “work” (that actually never ends) is done—
But experience peace NOW. Even in the midst of all the demands that you are facing NOW. In your business, your workflow, as the very fabric of your day-to-day existence NOW. 

How to find peace: 1). Ask your body where you’re resisting peace

The thing is, your body already knows what it’s like to be at peace. After all, it’s a deep soul memory that a part of you still carries of your eternal nature. 

Maybe, to you, peace feels like soft petals drifting down a stream, or the golden kaleidoscope of sunset light resting gently on your skin, or the quiet hum of bumble bees weaving their way through a meadow near the forest’s edge.

But for so many creative entrepreneurs and high-functioning soulful women, that whole-body experience of peace becomes distant, unreachable. Because we live up here—in our heads.

We’re running from one client deadline to the next, juggling content creation, onboarding team members, managing brand partnerships, backend fixes, and launch plans that never seem to end.

We’re constantly figuring out how to make sure the backend matches the frontend—how to maintain the image of ease and magic when, behind the scenes, we’re overthinking the copy, doubting the offer, or wondering if our VA is even executing the right voice.

And so the spiral begins—one thought feeding the next.
One “what if” tangled with five “should haves.”

And in all of this, we get cut off from the one place where peace lives: our bodies. You can see if that’s the case, by speaking this to your body.

Close your eyes for a moment or two. Then inhale a deep breath in your belly as you speak the following words quietly to yourself
“I am at peace now.”
“I allow myself to experience peace now.”
“I let go of what’s not peace now.” 
Then exhale and notice how your body responds.

Does one part of you flinch, contract, or tighten up? Do certain thoughts immediately argue back?

If so, notice where that tightness, numbness, or restriction is in your body. Is it in the neck or the throat or the back? Every part of your body is telling you the exact thing that is blocking you from experiencing perfect peace.

For example, if there is a tightness in your jaw area, your body may likely be telling you that your voice in branding/business still feels stifled, edited, or doubted.
Or if your throat feels closed up, your body may likely be telling you that you’ve had many team calls yet hadn’t felt fully understood.
Or if your chest flutters, perhaps you’re questioning if your clients, your audience, or your team truly see the real you.

The exact message that your body is carrying is deeply personal and often symbolic. And it’s a whole other world of intuitive listening (and if you’d like a personal doorway into how to find peace for YOU and your particular soul, you can receive a free mini soul reading here). Or, if you’re curious how your body’s wisdom is guiding you home to peace, you can explore more in this article.

How to find peace: 2). Release what’s holding you back from peace 

Once you have identified what’s holding you back from peace, you become clearer on what you need to let go of in order to have peace as your permanent state of being. 

Because the thing is, the way on how to find peace is not necessarily about acquiring more– more money, more clients, more team members etc. Sure, they may temporarily solve the problems that are bothering you (such as covering that unexpected tax bill, finally being able to outsource admin tasks, or proving to yourself that your last pivot was “worth it”).

But at the end of the day, having more just means that your problems will also become even more amplified– 

because now you have more eyes watching your every post.
More team members needing direction when you feel unclear.
More people buying your offers… and so more self-doubt about whether you can truly hold them.
Therefore, only amplifying more stress, more pressure. 

Unless of course, we let go of what’s causing the lack of peace in the first place.

So that means, if for example, your mind can’t stop worrying (and therefore not have peace around whether your launch would fill up or flop), it means tending to what’s causing the anxiety deep down, rather than trying to “figure out” another launch strategy.

Because simply rewriting your emails, adding new bonuses, or asking your VA to bump up the content plan won’t solve the deeper root cause of anxiety. 

In fact, just doing the strategic things alone only creates a cover-up for a deeper wound that says “you can’t be at peace yet.” 

Because if your launch doesn’t get filled up what happens? Does that mean you would spiral into shame? Or does that mean you would feel behind compared to the other coach you look up on Instagram? Or does that mean fears around not having enough would come up? 

Unless we dissolve the lie that says “if you don’t measure up to this, you won’t be okay,” there will always be a worry bothering you in the back of your mind no matter what size your business is. And when you’re worrying, you’re building your business from a place of fear, instead of experiencing peace that ALWAYS exists.

It’s like trying to go on a boat ride, but instead of fully enjoying the light vapor, you’re curled up in a ball to protect yourself from the water.

The same way, our deepest fears are trying to build the business—thinking that by hitting a six-figure month, securing a high-profile podcast feature, or finally getting a waitlist of dream clients, you will somehow be able to secure peace… at least for a brief moment.

And to our souls, it’s an exhausting place to live from.

Because we are trying to build this arbitrary success, thinking that unless we have it, we won’t be okay.

It’s in complete antithesis—a complete argument with the truth of reality—where in fact, we are always safe when we are in God’s love. (more on this in the next section of how to find peace).
And until this is felt inside your body, you will still not feel at peace in your business.

How to find peace: 3). Offer yourself to love 

The thing is, building a business is not easy. It’s not all sunshines and rainbows, where everyday you’re bathing in a bathtub full of money, like how many law of attraction circles depict.

There will be times when you spend days perfecting your new offer, only to hear crickets when you launch it.
Or you thought you hit “record” on a YouTube video—but you didn’t—and only found out after 30 minutes of speaking straight from your heart.

Or a client you loved working with suddenly pulls out mid-project, and you're left questioning if it was something you did, retracing every message and second-guessing every boundary.

Or you're preparing for a podcast interview and you find yourself doubting, “Do I even sound like an expert? Or am I just saying what I think they want to hear?”

Or you refresh your Stripe account five times in a day, hoping one payment will go through, just so you can relax for the night.

If I have to mention the one thing that challenges me the most– and also grows me the most, it’s running a business. 

And this struggle is HARD, gut-wrenching, obliterating, especially when we think we are the ones doing it. 

And by that I mean–our personal selves. The small-separate doer.
The one hustling to earn safety, crafting the perfect post to feel seen, chasing metrics to silence the inner ache of not feeling enough.
The one who ties her value to whether someone buys, responds, reposts, or validates.

I was once so wrapped up in my ego (the small-separate doer), that no matter how hard I tried, I felt denied, depleted, and defeated.

Every “no” from a prospect rejection hit me like a thousand bricks, every post that nobody liked made me feel like I was a piece of trash, good-for-nothing, and every “unfollow” from people I thought they liked my content stabbed me in my chest. 

Until I surrendered it all and in it, found God (love). 

I realized that with God, I don’t have to do it all alone. In fact, if I think that I’m the one who has to do it all alone– to earn safety, to earn validation from others, to earn value I thought I didn’t have, through my business, then I’m suffering. 

Because when you’re doing it all alone, without God (i.e. without love), you’re in a state of “lack.” You’re living in a reality where it feels like you need other people to give you what you don’t have. Whether that’d be safety (through money), validation (through likes), or worthiness (through client testimonials or booked out statuses).

But with God who fills you, unconditionally, tender, eternally, you become fulfilled.

You realize no matter whether you “win” or “fail” in business, God still loves you.
You realize that no matter how hard you’ve been through, God still supports you.
You realize that no matter how many times you’ve been knocked down, God always catches you. 

And that my love, is the relief you didn’t know you have been looking for all along...

From this place, when you do run your business, you are not doing it because your spirit “needs” anything out of it. 

Instead you run your business because you ARE already it. You are the peace. You are the fulfillment. You are the prize. 

And so, you are overflowing, instead of “convincing” others to finally buy from you/get you. You are expressing the wholeness that you are, rather than trying to be valued by others to finally be whole.

And this is the biggest difference between running a business from survival vs running a business from wholeness, my love.

It’s the difference between growing a business for validation vs growing a business for love.

It’s a new state of being that no business strategy can teach, no marketing funnel can fabricate, no morning routine can “hack” for how to find peace…

Yet this state of being—this rest in the unshakeable peace of God—

is available to you at this very Now moment.
And in every moment that follows from Now on.
~

My love, if you’re longing to build your business from peace, not pressure—
From soul, not struggle—
And want intimate, personalized support as you find joy in everyday moments.

You can book a free clarity call here to see if we’re a fit to work together,
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