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Money Medicine: Healing Your Wealth Wounds & Receiving Abundance
Imagine having a completely different relationship with money—one where abundance flows naturally, financial decisions feel empowering, and scarcity thoughts no longer control your life. In this transformative episode, we break down the concept of "money medicine" and how it can heal the wealth wounds keeping you trapped in limiting patterns.
Did you know that most people's money beliefs are formed by age seven? Or that financial stress activates neural pathways that physically block abundance? We reveal the shocking research showing how scarcity thinking actually lowers your IQ by 13 points—the equivalent of losing an entire night's sleep—and keeps you trapped making decisions from a place of fear rather than possibility.
We dive deep into the ten most common wealth wounds, from the scarcity wound ("there's never enough") to the worthiness wound ("I don't deserve money") to the safety wound ("money makes me unsafe"). These emotional, generational, and energetic imprints create powerful subconscious patterns that sabotage your financial wellbeing. The good news? Every wound you heal becomes wisdom you can embody.
The most powerful shift happens when you recognize that money is simply energy—neither good nor bad—and your relationship with it determines everything. We share five practical "money medicine" techniques including somatic safety practices, reparenting your inner money child, and our transformative "Money BFF" approach that has helped countless clients break free from financial anxiety and step into abundance.
Whether you're struggling with debt, underearning, overspending, or simply feeling disconnected from your financial power, this episode offers a roadmap to healing. Because ultimately, healing your money wounds isn't just about getting rich—it's about getting free. Join us on social media to share how this episode helped transform your relationship with money and abundance!
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Speaker 2:Okay, well, let's dive into the show. Today we are going to be talking about money medicine. We have talked about all these free medicines in our show prior. We've talked about so many things Gratitude medicine and kissing medicine and touch medicine but money if you have a healthy relationship with money, money can be medicinal as well. Oh, money has a massively medicinal effect, especially in this type of playing field, because if you live in the US or you live anywhere in the world, that money is a factor a major player.
Speaker 1:And it's also it's not having money. That's not the problem, it's your relationship to money. Yeah, no, so you can have a lot of money and still have money wounds.
Speaker 2:Money is not your problem. Money is never the problem. The problem is that you have an issue with money, or you were taught an issue, or you have a wound that creates an issue, but money is just energy Correct. And so, yes, you could say, greed is a problem, but it's not money's fault, right? Yeah, so today we're going to be talking about money, medicine for wealth wounds, and so your wounds are going to be tended to today, honey.
Speaker 1:We got a Band-Aid full of cash.
Speaker 2:We do have a Band-Aid full of cash and abundance and all of the things that wealth encompasses. So wealth isn't just money, but it certainly helps. It's a partner in wealth. So let's heal some wealth wounds and receive some abundance, shall we?
Speaker 1:We shall.
Speaker 2:Money isn't just numbers, let's be clear. It's nervous system, energy and deep subconscious patterning. If you're stuck in lack and feast and famine, or lack and limitation, we say, your body might be holding your wealth hostage.
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 2:So nervous system. If that's wacky, it's going to be a repellent to wealth your money. Wounds, though, are not your fault, but they are your responsibility to heal.
Speaker 1:And yes, I love that part about responsibility right, Because we all inherit money wounds from our parents and our loved ones Environments yeah. Environment, exactly TV, all that stuff. But it is again our responsibility.
Speaker 2:So you get to take your power back and reshape what kind of relationship you want to have with money.
Speaker 1:What kind of world is that?
Speaker 2:We have free range, so we want you to use this episode as a bridge between practical money healing and energetic abundance with nervous system and shadow integration. So last week's episode is so powerful for what we're doing today. So we're definitely laying the groundwork for you to have total integration of every part of yourself in a healthy way and to live the most wealthy, abundant life possible.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're tuning in and this is the first time that you're hearing the concept of wealth wounds, let's get into it. So wealth wounds are emotional, generational and energetic imprints that create scarcity patterns, fear of receiving money, Maybe you're undercharging or you're overspending. So let's dive into the top 10 core money wounds.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Right, so there's the scarcity wound.
Speaker 2:Number one.
Speaker 1:Number one and that's stemming from the belief that there is not enough, there's never enough to go around Right, and the root from that is is usually growing up with lack, maybe some survival based environments, you know, if you're cutting coupons and whatnot, or collective scarcity trauma, like during certain wars, right, that will create some sort of trauma and the symptoms of those are hoarding chronic, under-earning, panic around spending. There may be some compulsive saving or some overspending.
Speaker 2:So let's just for each one of these, the scarcity wound. If any of this sounds like you, just jot it down if you aren't driving, or put this in your phone and just sit with this, because we're going to give you some ways to work and deal with a scarcity wound. Okay.
Speaker 2:Correct, correct so number two is the worthiness wound, and this is the belief that I don't deserve to have money. And the root is unmet emotional needs in childhood, low self-worth people-pleasing patterns. Low self-worth people-pleasing patterns Any of this sound familiar. So symptoms are undervaluing your work, fear of charging, overgiving, self-sabotage when receiving abundance and we'll get into this more later. So, again, this was the worthiness wound.
Speaker 1:The worthiness wound.
Speaker 1:Number three is Is the safety wound right, and this is stemming from the belief that money isn't safe or having money makes me unsafe. The root from this usually comes from some financial trauma enmeshment or witnessing money being used to control for harm right. The symptoms of that is avoiding money. Or you have some anxiety when wealth increases, you get some money in your bank account and you kind of freak out or attracting financial chaos, right. So you're in that system where you owe so much money and you're just in that loop. That really is going to stem from that safety wound.
Speaker 2:Number four would be the rejection or abandonment wound and the belief is if I have or want more money, I won't be loved. And the root is being rejected or shamed for success or desires. And the symptoms are downplaying goals, rejecting ambition, fearing being too much in quotes, too much, you're too much, or keeping yourself small.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the keeping yourself small is something that we see on a regular basis with the rejected or abandonment wound. The next number five is the control wound, and this stems from the belief that I need money to feel in control or others will control me with it, right? So you want to arm yourself with money so that you can't be controlled by other people. The root really comes from financial manipulation, power struggles in childhood or partnerships.
Speaker 2:And again.
Speaker 1:We see a lot of these, we are taught a lot of these wounds from our parents and from media, and the symptoms, of course, are going to be over-controlling financial decisions, right? So you have to have all control or a hyper-independence? Maybe there's a fear of asking for support? So you're doing this on your own. You are a lone wolf.
Speaker 2:At all costs.
Speaker 1:At all costs.
Speaker 2:And so number six would be the guilt wound, and it comes from the belief that it's wrong to have money when others don't, and the root is survivor's guilt, religious programming, systemic injustice awareness. So if you're watching the news and you're constantly seeing other people suffer, it might make you feel like the rich people are all bad and the poor people are all great and it's bad to be rich. That would be an example. So the symptoms are giving all your money away, avoiding earning more or feeling bad when thriving.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the number seven is the shame wound, and this stems from the belief that I'm bad with money or I'm not smart enough or I failed financially. These are some beliefs that are going to be generating the shame wound, and the root from that really is going to come from past debts or failures, or being shamed for not knowing how to manage money, even though it's not taught very well At all money, even though it's not taught very well right, and the symptoms are hiding from finances or procrastination, or not asking for help or learning about money.
Speaker 2:Right, like learning ways that your money could be working for you, for example. So number eight is the loyalty wound and the belief is, if I become wealthy, I'll betray where I came from. So if there's a part of you that is holding probably a subconscious part of you that's holding a attachment and an identity connection to your origin stories maybe it was poverty is that you're afraid of betraying yourself and this can be subconscious. This is not something that you're consciously thinking. The root is loyalty to family struggles, cultural identity or ancestral hardship. So often we're carrying the cycles of what's happened to our ancestors.
Speaker 2:The symptoms of this are holding yourself back to stay connected to your roots or not outshine others. Yeah, so that was the loyalty wound.
Speaker 1:We know people like that.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Number nine, the masculine wound, and this stems from the belief that money is tied to masculine dominance, greed or oppression. This stems from negative associations with patriarchal structures or toxic capitalism. The symptoms are rejecting structure, resisting receiving or demonizing money itself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Number 10 is the feminine wound, and this is the belief that it's not feminine to want or manage money. And some of this is from bad programming. The root is conditioning that women shouldn't be powerful, wealthy or in control. I wonder who was working that conditioning? Maybe the patriarchy? Maybe, yeah, exactly, maybe the patriarchy. Maybe the symptoms are disempowered in financial decisions, relying on others and guilt around desire. And this is major because there's generations of women that are. They have this programming subconsciously running the show and they don't even know it.
Speaker 1:Now, the interesting about these wounds is that we can actually carry multiple wounds.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's likely you have multiple wounds and the remedy is coming up, so don't stress. When we look at the top 10, we can easily see areas where we need improvement ourselves. Like nobody is perfect.
Speaker 1:It stated that the 78 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, which, of course, is that scarcity cycle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that comes from Dave Ramsey. There's a Harvard study that I wanted to mention too is that childhood experiences of financial insecurity correlate with financial stress in adulthood. So it's just that cycle. You know, patterning things that we have all talked about on the show is that if you experience it as a child and you're experiencing it now, it's because of a pattern that needs to be broken. It's a cycle that needs to end of a pattern that needs to be broken.
Speaker 2:Yes, the cycle that needs to end and likely you might be listening to this because this is part of your role here is to break this ancestral cycle of scarcity and treating money as if money is bad, right, or whatever your wound is. Whichever one of these seem like oh, should I have that? And if you're said yes to all 10, maybe nine and 10, the feminine and masculine are a little bit off, but if you said yes to a lot of them, that's okay. That just means that you have the awareness that you need to do some work, and work can be fun. It depends how you decide to approach it.
Speaker 1:Yes, and congratulations to you if you just identified that you have a money wound based off of the information that we sent you Exactly. Now the cool thing is based on neuroscience. They state that money stress activates the amygdala, leading to the fight-flight-freeze response around financial decisions. So imagine what your life is going to be like once you heal those wounds right. You're going to have an energetic come up.
Speaker 2:Right, and what that neuroscience is really saying is that your nervous system is going to be a repellent. It's not going to allow if you are in fight, flight or freeze, you are not in receptivity mode to receive more abundance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the bank is closed.
Speaker 2:Right, and so everything in our Hold the Vibe course is about holding a frequency that matches the frequency of what you want, correct. And if you are holding a frequency of oh fuck, how am I going to get through the month, then you are going to continue to create that cycle. It just becomes a pattern.
Speaker 1:Your subconscious beliefs about money are often inherited, but they're not chosen, so you can choose whether or not you want to have those wounds.
Speaker 2:And healing your money wounds is spiritual work, because abundance requires safety.
Speaker 1:Yes. And what does money buy you? Safety. You can pad yourself with money.
Speaker 2:Yes, and also it buys you freedom. I mean, I would just say that the best thing that money can do for you as your money BFF is to protect you, like you said, and to provide freedom, and I think that that's at the core of why people are having a a money wound is that they feel trapped. Therefore, they feel that they're imprisoned by money, rather than money is freeing them.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And all that comes from within.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then they can only be a match for lack.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So let's dive into how money trauma lives in the nervous system.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So financial instability in childhood, for example, it imprints hypervigilance around spending, saving, having just anything around money, so that instability creates a foundation of stress and the vagus nerve plays a role of how safe we feel receiving and managing money. So if you haven't done vagus nerve work, there's a connection to your nervous system, which your vagus nerve is the master of, and the amount of money that you will receive and how you feel when you have it and what you then do with it. So nervous system dysregulation can manifest as overspending, under-earning or rejecting abundance opportunities due to fear. An example would be getting a large payment but immediately feeling the urge to get rid of it and spend it. This equals nervous system seeking familiar scarcity and you might not even be conscious of this. Again, these could be subconscious programs from childhood Good old childhood, right.
Speaker 1:Good old childhood.
Speaker 2:If your nervous system doesn't feel safe with abundance, it will sabotage it.
Speaker 1:Yes, and case point. We've heard stories after stories after stories of people who will win the lottery or they'll win a massive amount of money or inherit a massive amount of money and within years, within a year or a month, they are worse off than they were before they got the money.
Speaker 2:Right, Because if you never have managed money and you came from scarcity, you often misspend, overspend, misspend all of the things that we just said. But also you might be making investments that are scams. You might be like, oh well, let me see what I can do with this, and so that's. The risk is that if you don't learn about money, your wounds will harm you.
Speaker 1:Yes, and here's the other thing about wounds is like if you know you are coming into a lot of money right within the next couple of months or weeks, you're going to hit this huge jackpot or a huge project that is going to be done and you still have money wounds. Those money wounds will be exacerbated by the extra money that's coming in.
Speaker 2:Right, and I have clients that make millions of dollars and are always stressed about money, correct. And it's like I have also clients who are not making as much, who are never stressed about money, and so really, your wound is not money specific to what you are calling in oftentimes. Oftentimes, it's that your wound is creating a pattern in your nervous system and then your nervous system is just repeating the pattern, correct, it's familiar.
Speaker 1:We did it at the same time, yeah.
Speaker 2:Let's play a game.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love games.
Speaker 2:I know how. About we play what the Fook?
Speaker 1:What the Fook. What the Fook I haven't played that in a long time. Let's do this.
Speaker 2:I know let's play, okay, so I've got some money. Abundance, scarcity related. What the Fooks Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1:I am Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2:I am, I am Okay, I'm going to see if I can shock you, okay. So did you know that scarcity lowers IQ by up to 13 points?
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 2:Yes, so research from Princeton shows that just thinking about financial scarcity, like how to pay bills, for example, like oh no, I don't have enough, I have too much month and not enough.
Speaker 1:Not enough, not enough paycheck.
Speaker 2:Not enough. Paycheck to cover that month Reduces cognitive function the equivalent of losing a full night of sleep. Yikes Can you even believe that A full night of sleep Yikes? Can you even believe that A full night of sleep?
Speaker 1:So if you are an insomniac and you have money issues, you never sleep.
Speaker 2:And maybe your money issues are why you don't sleep.
Speaker 1:Ah, that's a catch-22 right there.
Speaker 2:Are you ready for another one?
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Okay. So just talking about money, for example, like we live in the US, if you're listening to us somewhere else, did you know that most Americans can't handle a $500 emergency without going into debt? A $500 emergency? So that means they are living so close. So, like we said, it's estimated 60% to 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many can't cover that unexpected $500 expense without going into debt.
Speaker 1:Yikes.
Speaker 2:So meaning they're not pulling from their account to like deal with breaks. Let's say breaks are like a 500 or $600 job on your car, you know you go tune up and they're like, oh, it's going to be 600 bucks.
Speaker 2:And you're like, why? Like, oh, your breaks are out or it doesn't pass inspection or whatever Right. And you're like, oh shit, I got to use a credit card just to cover this expense, and then I'm going to pay 18 to 20% on this interest rate of the credit card to cover this $500 expense. So there's this constant scarcity cycle happening.
Speaker 1:Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Speaker 2:Okay, did you like that one?
Speaker 1:I do. I do it is scary, though it's very scary. Yes, another interesting what the fluke is that. Did you know that?
Speaker 2:only 90% of US dollars exist only digitally.
Speaker 1:Only 90%. So 90% of US dollars exist only digitally.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, most certainly we no longer have the gold standard Right. So only about 10% of the money in the US is physical cash, which is why I never have cash, but I do. I do now carry cash, but the rest is just numbers on a screen. It's all just digital. It's created and moved by banks and digital systems. It's all digital digital. It's created and moved by banks and digital systems. It's all digital currency.
Speaker 1:Which, in my opinion, makes it even easier to manifest it.
Speaker 2:Exactly, we're just manifesting numbers, just digits.
Speaker 1:Just digits.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's another. What the fook? Did you know that money beliefs are formed by age seven?
Speaker 1:By age seven. Oh God, I'm looking at my age seven. I was like, oh yeah, yeah, I came into this world wounded with money. You know what I mean? It's like money wound, money wound, money wound, money wound.
Speaker 2:You just came out of the womb with like a scratch yeah exactly, Exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh man, he's scratched already. What is that? Oh, that's his money wound. Oh, he learned that in utero Utero, oh, utero Utero, that's right. Sadly, by age seven I officially had tasted government cheese.
Speaker 2:You had already tasted it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had tasted government cheese. I was like yeah, this is gross.
Speaker 2:It's nasty, but it's cheese, eat it, right, is it though? Yeah, so research shows your core money mindset is largely set by age seven and based on your early environment, family habits and subconscious conditioning.
Speaker 1:And you know I want to go back to that. Second. What the fuck, when you're talking about the $500 expense will wipe out a lot of families. I would welcome a $500 expense. Most of our expenses are like five grand. It's like what. I would take a $500 expense. I'd be like no biggie, we got that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, lately we've been redoing stuff $4,000, $6,000,. No, biggie, we got that, but yeah, lately we've been redoing stuff Like 4,000, 6,000, boom, boom. We've been upgrading our house, yeah exactly. When you upgrade your house, let me tell you it ain't $500, honey, Exactly. And the surprise is it's like a good episode of you know, like an HGTV show, where you're like, okay, here's your budget, oh, it's going to be $20,000. And you're like, yeah, triple that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't see this.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't see this. Oh, we're going to have this issue, so it's yeah it's like a. Ben Stiller movie.
Speaker 1:Everything's great about your house, but the foundation that's going to be replaced. Oh my God, don't say that, Sorry, House.
Speaker 2:Don't listen to him. He's just playing games. We love you House. All right, give me one more mind-boggling. I have another one about scarcity Little fashion scarcity.
Speaker 1:There's not enough to go around, there's not enough to go around.
Speaker 2:Did you know that scarcity makes you more likely to stay in toxic situations? Jobs relationships etc.
Speaker 1:Say that one more time.
Speaker 2:Scarcity makes you more likely to stay. So scarcity about money, money scarcity, a money wound where you never have enough, makes you more likely to stay in toxic jobs, relationships, situations, studies show scarcity mindset narrows your focus and it limits perceived options. So it kind of gives you this tunnel vision where you can only see a little bit ahead of you and it's just about surviving. It keeps people stuck in underpaying jobs, toxic dynamics, self-sacrificing roles, toxic relationships it really just locks you in.
Speaker 1:It's a showing of the power of patterns.
Speaker 2:The power of patterns. The power of patterns, exactly.
Speaker 1:You can either be in a positive pattern or a negative pattern. Let me tell you when you're in a positive pattern, you ain't got no wounds. Money's coming in abundance.
Speaker 2:Negative wound I'm just adding a little bit more onto that one. A little salt Scarcity. Yeah, just add a little. A little salt. Salt cuz, just a little bit of whipped cream on top of this is that when you have scarcity thinking, it decreases your long-term thinking as well. So you not only get tunnel vision, but you also get long-term blindness. Right, because when you're in survival mode, people are less likely to invest, save or plan for the future. They're not looking at their money. They're just like you know.
Speaker 1:I got to eat Right now, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because the brain becomes so focused on the short-term relief of like, how do I get out of this? How do I get out of this, how do I get out of this? And if you've ever seen on TV or in person a trapped mouse, that is what you can think of with scarcity is that it's only looking at what's right in front of them and it's acting very, very quickly and fast. And it has this mouse vision where it can only see very, very, you know, right in front of it. It's not looking from a vantage point like eagle vision. We talk about that a lot in coaching. It's like how are you looking at the problem? And if you're only looking at mouse vision, then you're going to have a limited view of the options, the possibilities, and I just want to end this game by saying that the universe is not on a budget.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Like you, you can change all of this. All of this is totally changeable.
Speaker 1:The universe can afford you your own planet if you want to. It's massive and you know. Going back to, you know the whole foundation based off of the whole Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The bottom is that foundation is unstable. So it's going to be really hard for you to make those wise money decisions and allow abundance to come in, because you are just focusing on the cracks in your foundation.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, so let's dive back into our show and talk about some of the prescription your money medicine. So you can return to making money your BFF instead of acting like money is just a bill collector.
Speaker 1:Your money is your best friend or your worst enemy.
Speaker 2:Exactly so money, medicine, practices let's give you five of them. Okay, I'll start. How about number one could be somatic safety. So if you listened earlier, last month we talked about um breath work, and breath work could um be a somatic experience for you to create safety, to calm the nervous system, before you make financial decisions.
Speaker 1:So reset your body and your mind before you jump into finances. That's great.
Speaker 2:Yes, and how you can do that is you can put hand on heart. This will help you with your breathing, just to ground yourself. You can also go outside and ground yourself and you can actually even take your computer outside. Look at whatever your spreadsheet or app or whatever you're using on your phone to manage your finances or your checking accounts. Do it outside, where you have your feet on the ground, and you can get some somatic safety, because the universe is going to hold you in a position of power and it's going to basically charge you when you are standing on grass or putting your feet on a rock or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it puts you in a celebratory state, right, you get to celebrate money, you get to be a part of that money, bringing in ritual, and when you ground yourself, you're literally connecting with the power of the heavens. It's just trifold Exactly. The next thing you can do is reparent your inner money child. So one way to do it. If you're big into journaling which I am, respond to this prompt what did I hear about money growing up? Again, what did I hear about money growing up? Also, when you're speaking about money, use safe words, right. Give yourself permission to love on your inner child and teach that inner child about abundance. So, be very careful about the words that you're using when you're talking about money. Right, you want to create a opportunity of safety for your inner child.
Speaker 2:And then number three would be shadow integration. So everything that we talked about on last week's show, about integrating your shadow. So I want you to identify judgments around wealth or wealthy people. So it's easy to do that because celebrities are easy to find. They're constantly in our face and they're constantly showing what wealth they have right. So identify any judgments that you have around that. Or, if you are in proximity to wealthy people, notice what comes up in you and what you feel and if it's envy, if it, you know what are, what are the things and then ask what part of me am I rejecting that could help me receive more. So, like Mike was saying, journaling you can journal on this. You can also use this as your grounding meditation question. You can ask this before you go to sleep, if you tend to get answers in your dreams. That would be an excellent way for you to integrate the part of yourself that you're rejecting, so you can receive more.
Speaker 1:That is a great question too. What part of me am I rejecting? Just note that there is a part of you that is rejecting currently rejecting money If you have a money issue, money wound. There is a part of you that is rejecting the money, the abundance, the wealth, all that stuff that you are wanting. So number four energetic receiving practice.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love this.
Speaker 1:We like to create practices and habits around the things that we want, which is why we can become more in alignment with it. So a good, energetic receiving practice would be saying thank you, I receive that, without deflecting it. So if someone gives you something, thank you, I receive it. Someone gives you either money, someone gives you advice, someone gives you an opportunity, a compliment thank you, I receive that and do not deflect it right, so you want to so don't devalue it by.
Speaker 2:like you know, you get the sum of money and then just being like, oh, I don't deserve it, and immediately, if you have that energy, it's going to push it away.
Speaker 1:Correct and you can use that as you are, say, invoicing. You can use that as you are asking for a raise. You can use that when you are wanting to move up financially. Thank you, I received that and get into that mood, that mode, even before you have received it. Right, yep, so you want to visualize holding and expanding abundance without fear? Right, visualize holding and expanding abundance without fear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Instead of like. You know, oftentimes if people are in lack, they'll think about money and be like, oh, like, but if I have this, then I'll have to do this.
Speaker 1:I'll be in a higher tech bracket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be this. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, just like, whatever the fear that's associated and dive into that, figure out, like when you receive, what comes up for you, correct, correct. Visualize yourself receiving and what comes up for you. Correct, visualize yourself receiving and what comes up. Okay, number five and the last one is boundaries and wealth. It's a huge one and it's not five because it's least. It's five because meh hit you with this. Scarcity often comes from leaks.
Speaker 1:Whoa leaks, Leaks.
Speaker 2:Energetic leaks. So are you setting boundaries around your time? If not, then you are creating scarcity, and this is money medicine we are giving you by helping you identify. Boundaries are crucial to wealth.
Speaker 1:Correct.
Speaker 2:So if money is just energy which we know it is, I think everyone listening probably aligns with that it's just energy, everything is energy, and if it is just energy, then you are likely leaking. If you aren't abundant, you are leaking somewhere.
Speaker 1:Now, when we say leaking, there's so many ways of deciphering that. I mean energetic leaks, of course, but then there's financial leaks. Right, you might be paying for things that you're not supposed to be paying for. Uh, you may come into money and be afraid of coming into money knowing that family members are going to come in and try to um, uh, ask for for money. So that's where the boundaries come in.
Speaker 2:And when I teach this in my group, um coaching, I often refer to money as a person. And if money is your BFF and you haven't and you've been ignoring that BFF, there's going to be consequences to that. So if you're ignoring what is happening with your money, if you're not investing time in that relationship with that BFF, if you aren't looking and feeling connected and excited about your mutual celebratory process in a relationship, it's just a money. Bff is just a visual representation of how you feel about money, and so I often have clients draw like what's your money BFF look like? And I often have them identify how they are showing up for their BFF.
Speaker 2:Is it a reciprocal relationship, Meaning, are you tending and caring and learning and exploring and celebrating really like? Treat it like that and that's. That's something that I have found over and over again really helps people in get through some of their scarcity is to to rewrite the script on what money actually is. Yes, it, it's energy, but make it a BFF. If you are a good friend to your money, your money will be a good friend to you.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that. The money BFF, it's you practicing the conscious intention to create wealth. When you start talking about money, it's not automatic right, because money isn't automatic. Money takes the form of whatever you create it to be right. So if you create a conscious intention that money is your friend, your best friend, your lover, maybe even a version of your inner child, something that you can give love to, that conscious intention will change everything about your life in regards to how money is going to find you.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, so I just wanted to add that. And this whole point of money medicine is, it's about creating safety in your body to hold the abundance you desire.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, I love that. I'll even go so far as to say like from Wayne Dyer. He states that abundance is not something that we acquire, it's something that we tune into. Right? So that's where the conscious intention is. The minute that you start rewriting your thoughts about money, that is when you tune into those higher abundance levels.
Speaker 2:All right. So pop quiz, you're going to tell me if this is a wealth wound, a belief to rewire, or wealth wisdom, a belief to embody. Just pop quiz real quick. Everyone play along. Powered posse, let's go. Money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 1:That is most certainly a wealth wound.
Speaker 2:Yep, okay, I have to work hard for money.
Speaker 1:Um, I think it's a little bit of both. I would say it's definitely a wealth wound because you don't have to work hard for your money. But some people enjoy working hard, so it it. It could be a wealth wisdom.
Speaker 2:It kind of depends on your no it's wound because if you always work hard for money, then eventually nobody can work hard forever. So it's definitely a wound because money does not require hard work. I'm bad with money.
Speaker 1:Wealth wound.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Most certainly.
Speaker 2:Rich people are greedy.
Speaker 1:That is a wealth wound. Most certainly. Yep, Most certainly. Rich people are greedy. That is a wealth wound. Most certainly. Yeah, Not all rich people are greedy, which is why we have a wonderful nonprofit industry in this country.
Speaker 2:Right. If I have more, others have less.
Speaker 1:Wealth wound, there's enough to go around for everyone.
Speaker 2:All right. So if all of those you were able to pass, then you're winning a gold star today.
Speaker 1:Ooh, is it a real gold star or a sticker?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a sticker on the board. Every wound you heal becomes wisdom you embody. So I invite you to do the work and have fun with it, experience a different version of yourself and create that money BFF. I have clients who have told me that has changed their entire relationship with money just that teaching. So reflect back to us on social. Tell us if this helped you, tell us if you didn't understand something, if we went too fast on something, let us know.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you, Zora, you have been swimming in money for quite some time. What is the name of your money? Bff.
Speaker 2:No, she's just called Money BFF, Really, yeah, yeah, she is just called Money BFF and it allows me to, you know, to work with her and to and to remember what she actually is. And you know, I draw pictures of her in my journal and I um, but I talked about her a lot on, everyone that I've ever worked with in coaching has some type of um, money wound. Right, it's just part of being a human that lives in the US.
Speaker 1:US exactly.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you said US so yeah, I often will have them like journal something Like what was I taught about money? That's holding me back or how can I make money in my BFF, and like just have them start playing the the what's and the how's and the who's and and finding the patterns themselves, because a coach will help you with the shortcuts in, in healing the wounds, and that's why we always advocate for get with a coach. If it's not us, you know. Get with someone who you trust, who is going to align you to a wealthy experience, and wealth is many different things for people.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:But wealth does include money, so we hope that this served you fully. So much love, sending you the highest vibrations.
Speaker 1:You are held.
Speaker 2:You are held, you are loved, all right. So do you have anything funny to say?
Speaker 1:Well, you had a closing quote that we didn't use. What was that?
Speaker 2:Healing your money wounds isn't just about getting rich, it's about getting free. It's about getting free.
Speaker 1:It's about getting free. So when you said that, right when that was made audible, the very first thing that I was thinking of is what am I going to be free of, right? And the minute I said that, there's this huge laundry list and the very first thing that came up is looking at price tags oh that's the first thing you're free from what?
Speaker 2:what I feel like healing your money wounds isn't just about getting rich, it's about getting free. What I would get free from it would be stress, yeah, yeah, is the more abundance, the less I stress and the more abundance, the more I can give, the more I can serve love the more I can fulfill my purpose and fulfillment is a huge part of freedom is that if you are doing the thing that you love, you're going to feel fulfilled.
Speaker 2:And if the thing that you love is some type of service, some act of service, then you're going to be free from feeling like what you're doing is only making you money, what you're doing is only making somebody else money, what you're doing is inconsequential to being here, and those types of feelings make you feel imprisoned, make you feel stuck.
Speaker 1:Correct.
Speaker 2:So I would just say, being free for me would be more abundant, so I can give more back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And feel the fulfillment of giving.
Speaker 1:I'll also be free to be Santa you can be Santa.
Speaker 2:I like being.
Speaker 1:Santa, I like buying people gifts. You can be Santa, you're going to be Santa.
Speaker 2:I like being Santa. I like buying people gifts. You're going to be Santa. I love that. You're going to sit on your lap, I love that.
Speaker 1:Just rolling in and oh, I got you something. Oh my God. Oh my God. I was looking for this. I know you were.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you do like doing that you do like.
