Helen

Last Thursday at noon, I spent ninety minutes guiding a group of women through what happens in their bodies when money stresses them out, and I have been thinking about it ever since.

I went in prepared to teach. I came out having learned something myself, because explaining how the nervous system holds financial stress is one experience, and watching that stress release in real time as we tapped together is another experience entirely.

Near the end, one participant shared something I found truly inspiring. She said she felt lighter, and then she described what so often happens once the body releases stress. From that lighter place, she was able to access the resourced version of herself, the part of her that is capable, grounded and clear, and she found solutions to a situation that had been bothering her for some time.

Sit with that for a moment, Helen. The solutions were already within her. What changed in that hour was the state of her nervous system, and once her body registered that it was safe, her own intelligence had room to come forward.

This is what the rewiring process does. It calms the stress response your body has learned to associate with money, so your body can register that it is safe, and you can think clearly, make wise decisions and act from your own brilliance.

When your body feels safe around money, the wisest version of you gets to lead.

So many of the women I know and worked  with have tried to think their way out of financial stress. They build the spreadsheet, read the book and set the intention, and then the stress returns the moment the invoice goes unpaid or the bank balance drops, because the pattern lives in the body, and the body learned it long before any spreadsheet existed.

The hopeful news is that your brain and nervous system keep learning for your entire life. Every time you learn something new and practice it, your brain builds a new pathway, and with repetition that pathway grows stronger until the new response begins to feel natural. This is what rewiring means. Your old patterns were learned, which means you can teach your body something new, one experience at a time.

Whether or not you were with me on Thursday, you can experience this process for yourself, and you have until tomorrow to do it.

My training, From Panic to Power: The 45-Minute Money Worry Reset, is part of the Learning Festival, a free event hosted by my friend Asmita Jason. The festival closes tomorrow, October 8. In those forty-five minutes, I guide you through calming your stress response around money, so you can approach your finances from that same resourced place my participant found on Thursday.

While you are there, I want to point you toward three other trainings that pair beautifully with this work.

The 3-Step Savings Reset gives you a simple system for aligning your savings with your income, so every dollar has a clear purpose and stays where you put it.

Release the Day helps you settle your nervous system at the end of the workday and create a wind-down ritual that supports deeper rest.

And Negotiating My Rate or Salary Feels Safe Now is a guided meditation for women who know their worth on paper yet still brace, soften or settle for less when it is time to ask. It works directly with the belief that asking for what you are worth is unsafe, and that is exactly the kind of pattern I love to see women release.

Every training in the festival runs under sixty minutes, so you can choose the ones that call to you and actually complete them before the doors close.

BROWSE THE LEARNING FESTIVAL BEFORE IT CLOSES TOMORROW →

Before you go, I would love to hear from you. When money stresses you out, where do you feel it first in your body: your chest, your stomach, your shoulders, or somewhere else entirely? Hit reply and tell me. I read every answer.

Standing for your Greatness,
Dr. Helen

P.S. Some of the festival trainings are also running live over the coming weeks, so when you sign up, you may be able to attend one in real time. You can see which ones when you browse the festival here: BROWSE THE LEARNING FESTIVAL BEFORE IT CLOSES TOMORROW →

P.P.S. I am re-recording Thursday's workshop this week so it can live as a standalone experience. Keep an eye on your inbox.

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