Procrastination, burnout, and underpricing are not always discipline problems. Sometimes your body is simply under too much stress.
You are working long hours with your hands.
You are trying to be the therapist, marketer, scheduler,
bookkeeper, and business owner.
And even when you are busy, the money may still not feel worth the effort.
I’m Monique, your MindBody Business Mentor.
I help bodyworkers understand how stress affects the way
they think, work, and make decisions —
then build a business that is profitable, sustainable,
and does not require them to keep working more hours.
What Stress Is Costing Your Business
Most business advice tells you to do more. Post more. Work harder. Raise your prices. Push through. But when you are already stressed and overwhelmed, more pressure usually does not help. You may procrastinate, avoid decisions, undercharge, overwork, or keep doing things that are not actually helping your business grow. This is not always a lack of discipline. Sometimes it is simply the way your mind and body respond when you have been under too much stress for too long.
How Stress Shows Up in Business
1. Fight — pushing harder, controlling everything, overworking, getting frustrated.
2. Flight — constantly changing plans, chasing the next idea, taking another course, staying busy without finishing.
3. Freeze — procrastinating, avoiding marketing, second-guessing decisions, doing nothing because everything feels like too much.
You cannot fix bad pricing by only working on yourself. And you cannot build a strong business by pushing harder when you are already exhausted. A sustainable business needs both: the way you handle stress and a business model that actually works.
You Need Both
1. How You Handle Stress
You can know exactly what to do in business and still struggle to do it. Stress can show up as procrastination, overwhelm, underpricing, second-guessing yourself, or avoiding decisions. We help you recognize those patterns so you can think more clearly, make better decisions, and follow through.
2. A Business That Actually Works
Changing how you handle stress will not fix bad pricing, unclear offers, inconsistent marketing, or poor systems. You also need a business that is set up to make money and support the life you want. We work on both so your business can grow without requiring you to work more hours.
28 Years in Wellness. Multi-Six-Figure Practice. Mind-Body Breakthrough.
From owning my first salon in the 90s and managing 100 employees as a corporate trainer to building a multiple six-figure solo practice, I spent decades in the wellness industry. But behind the scenes, I was living in chronic pain, burnout, and constant physical exhaustion.
Everything shifted when I cracked the code on the mind-body connection. I realized that business stalls, boundary struggles, and physical fatigue aren't personal failures—they are biological symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system.
Today, I teach bodyworkers how to regulate their nervous systems, step out of fight-or-flight, and build high-ticket, sustainable practices without destroying their bodies.
Core Pillars of Experience
Mind-Body Expertise: Understanding how stress, patterns, and the body work together — and how to apply that in bodywork and everyday life.
Business Systems That Support You: Simple tools, clear client processes, and consistent marketing systems that help your business run more smoothly without everything depending on you.
Changing the Patterns That Keep You Stuck: Helping practitioners recognize and change patterns like procrastination, underpricing, overworking, and burnout.
I Hit the 20-Hour Wall So You Don't Have To.
Continuing Education with MindBodywork
Learn a different way to work with pain, tension, and the nervous system — without relying on more pressure or wearing out your body.
Earn continuing education hours while learning practical nervous system and somatic techniques you can begin integrating into the work you already do.
A free casual conversation for LMTs who want to talk honestly about the business side of massage.
Ask questions. Connect. No gatekeeping. No pressure.
Occurs Every Month
Free MindBody Q&A
Free MindBody Q&A
You don’t need another self-help book telling you to think positive and wait for your life to change. You need real tools to break free from the patterns that are keeping you stuck.
In How to Unapologetically UNfuck Yourself, Mindbody Coach Monique Derouen takes you on a straight-talking, no-BS journey to stop overthinking, start trusting yourself, and create lasting change.
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