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Mar 2025
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What is Financial Trauma? The Nervous Sy...

Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof
About this episode

Why is it that financial abundance comes easier for some, while others struggle? What if we told you it's not about how hard you work for money, but about how your nervous system is patterned? Money is a tricky subject, because it is the foundation for our survival and security. So we can unconsciously create unhealthy relationships with money that are formed from what we have been taught about money at a young age, and unhealed trauma that still lives in our body around money, sex, and parental figures.  

In today’s episode, Elisabeth and Jennifer are joined by Preston Smiles, a transformational leader and author, who helps heal traumas to cultivate financial abundance. They touch on everything from childhood trauma around money and sex, as well as what financial trauma looks like, and the invisible thread we can follow to learn where our scarcity or lack around finances stems from. Preston also conveys how creating financial success is all about healing our traumas to create a relaxed body, and a clear channel for money to flow in easily. This episode is filled with tangible exercises that you can start today to help create a clear channel to allow in, not only financial abundance, but joy and calm.

If we reframe our mind to think of money as energy, we can start to see how attracting it comes down to being open enough to receive it. The way we do this is a personal journey of healing and acceptance of the fact that we are worthy of financial abundance. We just need to believe it to receive it!

If this episode resonates with you, be sure to check it out!

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Preston’s money story and the pivotal moment that changed everything for him

  • Understanding financial trauma

  • Personal examples of financial trauma from Elisabeth and Jennifer

  • A common financial trauma many children in the Western world experience

  • How we’re conditioned to believe talking about money is dangerous

  • Creating a clear, open channel in the body for financial success

  • The impact of sexual trauma on our relationship with money

  • An exercise to break free from a functional freeze pattern

  • The four unconscious needs all humans are constantly seeking

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