Your Money Story
One of the most powerful questions I love to ask someone I am growing alongside is:
“What is your story of ___________ ?”
Fill in the blank: money, food, love, desirability, body, friendship, creativity….
We all live within frameworks of stories. We have absorbed a certain version of who we are in relation to these major elements of our lives, and we live out that story with its freedoms and limitations.
Let’s take money as an example:
What is your story of your relationship to money?
What was the first thing you learned about money? Who taught it to you, and how was it taught?
What relationship to money was modeled in your home as you grew up?
Neutrality? (Seldom the case!)
Anxiety and fear?
Guilt or shame?
Peaceful freedom?
Trust in abundance?
A practice of generosity?
Peaceful, generous, joyful wealth?
How have you absorbed and repeated that relationship to money?
What other teachers about money have shaped you? Who have been your positive mentors or modelers of the relationship you want to have?
How have you changed, or how would you like to change your money story?
These primal human needs of food, love, money (or whatever currency of resources), and community are landscapes for spiritual formation. Our relationship to them exposes our fears, vulnerabilities, and desires. The process of building a relationship of peace and trust toward them is a laboratory for our growth, a playground of challenges. I created the Weighty course as a journey to revolutionize our story of food, nutrition, and body image. It is a joy to move through it with so many of you, as we arrive at a mindset, heartiest, and practice of deep nourishment and energized purpose.
Our money story is a new landscape that is calling me: I have been doing deep work over the last few years to understand and heal my own, and reshape my beliefs and practices into alignment with a story of peaceful, joyful, generous wealth that draws from divine source, and catalyzes my creativity and that of all it blesses.
I am excited to share a new collaboration I have begun with the Wealthy Mind app, a resource for shaping your money story into one that serves all you are capable of creating in this world. I encourage you to download, rate, and review it, as we build it together. My first video meditation for the app, “Abundant Presence” is available now. Love to hear what you think of it, and what growth and abundance it sparks in you.
For a deep dive with me into creating an abundance mindset and clearing your channel to divine Source, join me for SOURCED, a course of spiritual and practical tools to embody wealth and generate generosity.
Please share in the comments below:
What tools—practical or spiritual—would help you be a clearer, more empowered conduit of money?
What growth do you want in your financial mindset, heartset, and practices?
