All in Healing Ancestral Money Trauma
If someone grew up in a household where they were constantly criticized, verbally or emotionally attacked or beaten for being wrong or making mistakes, they will learn to defend themselves by never claiming responsibility for mistakes they made because they are scared of the punishment associated with making mistakes.
There's this insidious belief that people misuse money because they didn't go to school and only people with no university degrees are in debt.
Or that people are poor because they are lazy.
There's something really scary and insidious about the old/current system that teaches us that the only way to make money is to work hard and that people are poor because they don't work hard enough.
One day we need to unpack what South Africa is doing to young Black people in the workplace and how this is adding to money trauma.
There's this dangerous narrative that tells us that we should be grateful for whatever little bit we earn because others don't have jobs.
I invest a lot of money into healing my body. In 2021 I invested over US$10,000 in acupuncture and karsai nei tsang sessions (womb/yoni healing massages) and I am so glad I did.
Soon, I will do a whole webinar unpacking how the trauma of colonization, apartheid and slavery affects our allostatic load and how this impacts our health, nervous system and finances.