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136: How to Feel Safe Earning More (Without Sabotaging or Overspending It)
Category: Business
Duration: 00:22:41
Publish Date: 2025-11-25 07:00:00
Description:

Have you ever made more money… only to find yourself overspending, shrinking back, or feeling anxious instead of abundant? If so, you’re not alone — and there’s nothing wrong with you.

In this episode, I explore one of the most important — and most misunderstood — pieces of financial growth: your money nervous system thermostat. We often think that earning more should feel good, natural, or easy. But the truth is, if a part of your body doesn’t feel safe with more, it will unconsciously pull you back to what’s familiar, even if what’s familiar is financial stress, inconsistency, or sabotage.


I share:
 ✨ Why lifestyle inflation, overspending, or freezing with money isn’t a lack of discipline — it’s a nervous system response.
 ✨ How our childhood environment (not just money memories) sets our internal “thermostat” for how much abundance feels safe.
 ✨ The science behind why expansion often triggers threat responses like guilt, fear, or shame — even when something good is happening.
 ✨ Powerful, practical tools to build your capacity to earn more and keep more, including nervous system healing practices and co-regulation in community.


I also share personal stories — including the moment Louise Hay offered me my first book deal and why my immediate response was a shame spiral rather than celebration. This is such a potent example of how expansion can overwhelm our body if we haven’t updated our internal capacity to receive more.


You’ll walk away understanding:
 

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