Dear Sandy, I am sure you can do it if you are determined, and if your
family needs you to do it.  In my case, we needed the income (all my kids
play instruments and are in orchestras and that is well worthwhile and
quite costly), and I needed to have some separation.... I could not take
the phone ringing off the hook, all the time, and the possibility of being
on the phone for hours, or running off to see clients, without the equality
of being paid for my work.

Breathe through it. Kathleen


>Thank you Kathleen, for explaining how you set clear boundaries with an
>answering machine. I think I will probably need to go to therapy to be
>able to charge adequately. I know someone else mentioned that this is
>what some of us who have been "giving it away for free" for so long might
>need to do.
>Sandy Hankin

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