EP 29: CPTSD and Money: Why Your Wealth Wound Isn't Actually About Money

Many of us have learned that if we just heal our mindset or do enough inner work around abundance, our financial reality will finally shift. But what if the wound underneath our money struggles has very little to do with money at all?

This week's episode is a deep, trauma-informed solo talk about what's actually happening underneath the patterns we keep repeating in our wealth creation, and why no amount of empowerment work seems to create lasting change.

I'm walking you through the framework I teach inside Body of Wealth, my self-paced study rooted in polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, nonviolent communication, and complex PTSD education. We explore how attachment injuries from childhood replay in our relationship to money, how emotional flashbacks show up at the register or in our bank account, and why so many of us are stuck in repetition compulsions we never realized we were in.

A big theme of this episode is that healing our relationship to money is really about building a healthy relationship to our parts. The wounded, rejected, ignored, and criticized parts of us are also the most creative and abundant when we finally learn to work with them instead of against them.

I also talk about:

• How attachment injuries from childhood replay in our relationship to money
• The seven sources of wounded wealth and how they leak into our finances
• What an emotional flashback looks like in your money story
• Why safety is the foundation of sustainable wealth
• The difference between integrated and unintegrated trauma responses
• How to start working with your parts instead of overriding them

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