Your Money Story Lives in Your Body

Most people try to “fix” their money story at the mindset level.
But here’s the truth: your money story does not live in your mind.
It lives in your body.

But according to the nervous system and polyvagal theory, that’s only the surface.

Eighty percent of information actually travels from the body to the mind,
not the other way around.
Which means the deeper imprint of your money story isn’t in your thoughts but it’s in your body.

Your body remembers:

It remembers the tension in the room when your parents argued about bills.
It remembers the way you felt when money felt scarce or unsafe.
It remembers what you mirrored as a child, whether money was spoken about with fear, secrecy, or survival.
It remembers the energy of the environment you were in.

Those memories didn’t just form your “money mindset.”
They created an energetic frequency that lives in your nervous system.
And unless we go into the body to rewire, those old frequencies stay active.
That’s why, even as an adult business owner with an entirely different reality,
you might still find yourself bracing for scarcity, contracting when you
look at the numbers, or waiting for the other shoe to drop.

That’s not because you’re bad with money.
It’s because your body is protecting you.

For me, my nervous system protection looked like functional freeze,
a state where I kept doing, kept achieving, kept “holding it together,”
all while feeling disconnected and secretly unsafe inside.
(I’ll share more about that in my next story.)

Here’s what I mean.

Consciously, you may know you’re a successful business owner.
You know you have money in the bank.
You know you’ve written checks before and they’ve always cleared.

And yet, if you slow down and pay attention,
you may notice something different happening inside your body.

For me, even after 20 years as a creative entrepreneur, every time I opened my bank account,
I went into avoidance:

My chest tightened.
My stomach contracted.
My body wanted to rush away, a flight response, just to be done with it.
I would find an excuse of not facing my bank account.
It was not about my strong will or discipline.
My nervous system was protecting as if I were in the past.

The same thing happened when I wrote a larger check.
On the outside, I knew it was safe.
But on the inside, my body braced.
I felt that familiar contraction, that uneasiness, that bracing for loss.

That’s the nervous system holding onto an old money story,
the one formed in childhood, from the way I saw my parents deal with money,
and how unsafe it felt then.

That old energy doesn’t just disappear with time or success.
It lives in the body until we meet it, release it, and rewire it.

This is why nervous system work is the missing key to money healing.
When your subconscious body responses and your conscious mind beliefs come into coherence,
your inside and outside reality finally match.

And, that is what I help my clients do:
rewire their nervous system for how they relate to money at their state of being and not
just at their state of thinking and doing.

In the nervous system work, there is a saying:"Story Follows State"!

Reflect for yourself:

1. What sensations do you notice in your body when you open your bank account?

2. How does your body respond when you spend or give a larger amount?

3. What old story might those sensations still be carrying?
   

Your nervous system remembers.
And when you listen to your body, you unlock the power to rewrite
your money story from the inside out.

When you rewire your Money Story from the inside out,
you will become an energetic match to a different financial reality
because your body will carry your "upgraded" frequency of money.


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With love & possibilities,
Love & Money Rewiring Therapy