Abundance & Receiving: Healing Your Hidden Money Blocks

Abundance and receiving,

Healing your hidden money blocks,

A money loves you back talk.

For a long time,

I thought money was simple,

Not easy,

But just simple.

Money in,

Money out,

Spend less,

Earn more.

The same way we're told,

Eat less,

Move more.

On paper,

That makes sense.

And if that's all money was,

Most of us would not be where we are now.

I had taken the classes,

I read the books,

I had listened to the experts who seemed so certain about how money should work.

And yet my actual life did not match what I knew in my head.

I was still in debt,

Still cycling through the same patterns,

Still feeling like I must be missing something very basic.

If they were right,

Then I must just be bad with money.

That thought lived in me for a long time.

The moment that thought started to crack open happened years ago in Madison,

Wisconsin.

I had signed up for a day retreat.

It was a small acupressure class in the lower level of a woman's home.

She was well-known in the city as the person to see for energy work.

People spoke about her like she carried something special.

Before we ever saw her,

We felt her.

A door opened at the top of the stairs and the room shifted.

The space felt different.

Everyone's attention moved toward where she would appear.

Her presence was calm and strong.

I remember thinking very clearly,

If anyone understands how energy and abundance work,

It's her.

The class was interesting and full.

And in the middle of the day,

We broke for lunch.

Her home sat on a beautiful wooded property.

So I took my food outside.

I walked under the trees,

Listened to the wind,

And let myself relax in a way I hadn't in months.

For a little while,

I felt peaceful and open.

The constant money,

Noise,

And banter in the back of my mind finally got quiet.

Then I walked back in.

When I stepped into the house,

I came in on the middle of a conversation.

She was talking to me.

I was talking with one of my classmates.

I don't remember what the classmate had asked.

I only remember what the teacher said in response.

She stepped back,

Cocked her head,

And very matter-of-factly said,

Look,

I can't do that.

I have to be very careful.

I'm on a fixed income.

The words were simple,

Reasonable.

But in the state I was in,

They landed like a tidal wave.

Half of me thought,

Of course,

That's just being practical.

The other half of me felt something in my chest drop.

Here was a woman who spent her days teaching about energy and possibility.

Here was someone people trusted with their deepest questions.

And her sentence about money was,

I'm on a fixed income.

It was not the phrase itself that stayed with me.

It was the feeling underneath it.

The feeling that her life,

Her options,

Her receiving,

Were already decided and closed.

Something about that fell off.

Not because she was wrong to be careful,

But because the way she spoke about money did not match what she taught about everything else.

I didn't have language for it yet.

I just knew I could not stop thinking about it.

Eventually,

I went back to my own life.

While still broke,

Often by a lot,

I told myself,

I'm naive,

I'm irresponsible,

I'm behind,

And I'm lazy.

All the labels we put on ourselves when money does not look the way we think it should by now.

But underneath that,

A small voice kept saying,

Listen,

There is more.

This is not the whole story.

It took years before the Madison moment fully clicked into place.

When it did,

It came down to two simple things.

Accepting that you are a receiver and telling the truth about what you actually believe.

These sound small.

They are not.

For most people,

They are everything.

Let's start with receiving.

You are already a receiver.

You take in the tone of rooms.

You feel the mood of conversations.

You notice when something is off before anyone even says it out loud.

You receive information,

Energy,

Impressions all day long.

You're not bad at receiving.

You're actually very good at it.

The problem is usually not I do not receive.

It's closer to I receive everything except the things that actually support me.

Many of us have trained ourselves to easily receive other people's emotions,

Other people's expectations,

Other people's stories about what is possible.

And we quietly deflect or shrink away from receiving money,

Ease,

Help,

Recognition,

Things that make life feel more livable.

So when we talk about receiving in money work,

We're not asking you to become someone else.

We're asking you to turn something you already do toward an area it has not been allowed to touch.

To let receiving include being paid,

Being supported,

Having more than just enough,

Letting money arrive and stay.

Accepting that you are a receiver sounds like I am not the exception.

I am not the one person this does not work for.

I am built to receive.

I have been doing it my whole life.

I can let that include money.

That's the first shift.

The second shift is telling the truth about what you actually believe.

Not what you post,

Not what you repeat as a mantra,

But the sentences that live under all of that.

You can say,

I'm open to abundance.

Money flows easily to me.

I know I'm supported.

But if the quiet sentences under those are still closer to,

It always leaves.

This works for other people,

But not for me.

I cannot trust money to stay.

Then those are the sentences shaping how you feel and what you expect.

This is not about blaming yourself for having those beliefs.

It's about getting honest enough that you can actually work with them.

Telling the truth might sound like,

I say I'm open to more,

But it still feels safer to expect the same as always.

I say I know money can be easy,

But part of me still waits for it to go wrong somehow.

I say I welcome money,

But I still talk about it like it's barely allowed to be around me.

When you name it that clearly,

You finally know what you're dealing with.

You stop trying to think positive on top of an expectation you have never admitted even to yourself.

For me,

That's what the teacher in Madison was showing without realizing it.

She taught about energy and expansion.

She believed in healing and possibility.

And yet the truth she spoke about her own receiving was I am on a fixed income.

It was a sentence with a wall built into it.

The energy she moved for others was big and open.

The energy she allowed for her own money was small and closed.

This is not a criticism of her.

It's a mirror of something many of us do.

We hold large space for others.

We talk about possibility.

We can see how things could shift for everyone around us.

And yet when it comes to our own money,

The sentence under the surface is often,

This is just how it is.

It's already decided.

This is as good as it gets for me.

So much of money healing is simply this.

Letting yourself receive in the places you have quietly decided you cannot.

And telling the truth about the sentences you live by so they can begin to soften.

You do not have to like every belief you uncover.

You do not have to change everything at once.

You only have to be willing to see where you have closed the door on yourself and let it open a little.

When you do,

Money stops being the place where your body tightens.

It becomes one of the places where healing can happen.

Not because money is magic,

But because it is where very old stories have been living.

And when you meet those stories with receiving and truth,

They do not have to keep running the show.

You are allowed to receive more than you have so far.

You are allowed to be honest about what you believe right now.

Those two things together are where something real begins to change with money.

You do not have to turn your whole life around overnight.

It's enough to begin noticing where you still close the door on yourself and to let it open just a little bit more.

Just a little.

Every time you do that,

Money has a little more room to meet you differently.

If you'd like to keep going with this talk,

You might spend a little time with the following five questions.

When the thought,

I'm just bad with money,

Shows up,

What do you think it's really trying to say about you or your life?

Question two.

What sentences about money have you quietly decide are just how it is for you?

Things like there's never enough,

It always goes back to zero,

Or people don't like me,

Or people like me,

But I don't get ahead.

Where have you decided that it's just how it is?

Question three.

Where in your life do you receive easily right now?

Love,

Help,

Kindness,

Small good things?

And where do you notice yourself quietly turning,

Receiving away,

Especially where money's involved?

Where do you receive easily right now?

Number four.

If you were completely honest,

What amount of money feels allowed for you to have and keep?

And also start to think about what feels like too much.

If you were completely honest,

What amount of money feels allowed for you to have and keep?

And finally,

If you look at your money life as information about you instead of judgment about you,

What does it feel like it's been trying to show you or ask for?

Looking at your money life as information about you,

Not judgment about you,

What do you feel like that information has been trying to show you or ask you for?

Thank you for being with us today.

We hope you found this video helpful.

We'll see you in the next Money Loves You Back journey.