Join Sara and Anna as they talk about cash money, yo! (And how to improve your relationship with it)

Money is a dicey topic that a lot of people don’t like talking about. We, at The Sisters Enchanted, believe it is important to think about your beliefs, stories and memories around money and so, for this podcast episode, we were excited to dive right in!

The Journaling Experience

Journaling is a great practise as, not only does writing really help you to get to your deep mind and your subconscious and explore what is there, journaling is also a multisensory experience. You can read it back to yourself so you can hear your story as you are writing it. You can use art and colour to make it visual. Journaling is a great way to explore your money story.

Exploring Your Money Story

Money can be a tough topic, especially for spiritually inclined people. Many people find it difficult to ask for money they are owed, to ask for a raise at work or to ask for people to pay you when starting out a new business. We can also feel ‘money shamed’ by the reactions of other people towards our status and beliefs around money and by others putting their money stories upon us. 

What is your earliest memory around money?

Your money story starts with your earliest memory around money. This memory often sets subconscious feelings around money that can have a huge impact on your openness and ability to gain and enjoy financial abundance.

Journaling activity: Write about your first memory around money. This may be a moment in your childhood when you were given money or denied money to spend on something you really wanted or when you had or overheard an argument around money. It may be a moment later in your teenage years. Think back and find your earliest money memory and then write about it in as much detail as you can. 

What happened?

How did you feel?

What is the main theme of the money story here? 

For example, did money enable you to receive or give a treat? Was it denied? Is it a financial rescue story?

Now think about how this theme has been repeated throughout your life. If your earliest memory was a rescue story, do you often prefer others to make financial decisions for you, or to encourage you to spend money on yourself? Do you rescue others with money? If your memory involves money bringing you a treat, do you often shop and spend to treat yourself, to self-care and feel better? 

Write about how your early memory has set your money story, how it plays out in your life, how it makes you feel and any blocks it may cause in receiving and enjoying money.

How would you like to change your money story? What money story would you like to have? We can all change our money stories – how could you change yours?

Three Ways to Change Your Money Story 

1. Recalibrate your zero

If you are afraid of having a zero-dollar bank balance, then change where you calibrate zero! Work out how much money you never want to fall below, for example the security of three months’ rent or mortgage, or a month’s food and bills. Then make this your new zero – the place at which you stop spending as if you had no money left. 

2. Journaling

You can really get creative here and write letters to your credit account, your bank balance or to yourself about your money story and the story you would rather have. You can talk to yourself about how you see money and journal about that and journal about what your value is of money and how you value it. Journal about how your money story is changing and the difference it is making to your life. 

3. Money Affirmations

Affirmations teach your brain a new way of thinking but you have to walk with your new self-talk and make the changes too. Write affirmations to help you change your money story and write and recite them to yourself daily

For example:

I see new ways to grow my wealth every day.

Money is a replenishable resource and is finite.

Download this episode’s transcript here!