The Get Right with Money® Framework
Let's take a deep breath together.
Most of the money advice you've received has started in the wrong place—with the education, the strategies, the spreadsheets. Budget better. Track your spending. Invest wisely. Charge what you're worth. Save more. Earn more. And perhaps, like so many women I work with, you've tried all the things. You downloaded the apps, read the books, hired the financial advisor, worked with the business coach who insisted that "just raising your prices" would solve everything.
But what actually happened? You opened that budgeting app once and never went back. You set a pricing structure you couldn't bring yourself to use. You avoided looking at your bank account even though you knew you should. You felt that familiar clench in your stomach every time money came up. The anxiety persisted no matter how much was actually in your account.
Then—perhaps the hardest part—you blamed yourself.
But really, traditional money advice failed you. I want to share something I've come to understand deeply through my own journey and through years of supporting women in their money healing. When you're carrying scarcity wounding, or any kind of trauma, around money—and so many of us are—traditional money advice doesn't work because it assumes your nervous system is regulated. It assumes you can calmly look at your finances, implement strategies, and execute plans without your body going into fight, flight, or freeze. But that's not how our bodies work.
When your nervous system perceives money as danger—and for many of us, it does—trying to "just budget better" is like trying to do complex math while someone's chasing you. Your executive function goes offline. Your prefrontal cortex shuts down. The wound takes over.
You can't think your way out of a body-based response.
Traditional money programs focus on either tactics (the spreadsheets and strategies) or mindset (shifting your thinking). But when your nervous system is dysregulated and your body is holding old wounds around money and worthiness, neither approach creates lasting change. This is why the Get Right with Money Framework was created—a trauma-sensitive, embodied approach that addresses the root cause of your money struggles, not just the symptoms.
Who is this framework for, anyway?
You might recognize yourself in any one (or more) of these experiences:
Willfully ignoring your bank balances or how much debt you're carrying.
Your stomach clenching when you go to buy something because you don't know if there's enough money.
Wondering where all the money goes because you don't track your spending.
Persistent money anxiety no matter how much money is available.
Resentment and frustration that you aren't earning what you want to earn.
Chronically undercharging for your work or services because asking for more feels dangerous.
Never asking for the raise you deserve because it feels too risky or selfish.
Overgiving and over-delivering because you don't feel worthy of what you're paid.
Staying in a job that underpays you because leaving feels impossible.
Unable to spend on yourself without guilt, even when you can afford it.
Making good money but never feeling like there's enough.
Avoiding money decisions entirely, frozen by fear or overwhelm.
If you've tried traditional money advice and it hasn't worked, you're not broken. You're not incapable. You're not lazy or irresponsible. You just haven't addressed the nervous system dysregulation and wounding that's driving your relationship with money.
The Get Right with Money Framework
The Get Right with Money Framework consists of four steps that build on each other. I invite you to think of them as nested—each step amplifies the others, with nervous system nourishment holding them all.
The Get Right with Money framework is how our bodies, our psyches, our whole beings move from wounding to wholeness.
Step 1: Nourish Your Nervous System
In this moment, let's notice the ground under our feet and take a deep breath.
I know—if you're like so many women I work with, you want to jump straight to action. You want the plan, the steps, the checklist that will finally fix your money situation. I get it. I've been there. But I believe, both through my own healing and through witnessing hundreds of women's journeys, is this: without nervous system regulation, nothing else sticks.
When your nervous system perceives money as a threat—and if you're reading this, there’s a good chance it does—your body responds with fight, flight, or freeze. In that state, you literally cannot access your executive function, your pre-frontal cortex, your capacity for clear thinking and wise decision-making.
You can't budget your way out of a freeze response. You can't "just charge more" when pricing triggers panic. This is where we begin: creating safety in your body so you can actually be present to your current situation with money. Through practices like breathwork, grounding, and Yoga Nidra, we settle the nervous system and create the conditions for everything else to become possible.
Consider this: When you're in a regulated state, you can look at your bank account without spiraling into anxiety. You can have a courageous conversation about money (instead of avoiding it at all costs). You can make a pricing decision or consider asking for a raise from clarity instead of fear.
This step isn't indulgent or "woo"—it's neuroscience. Your nervous system needs to feel safe before your brain can think clearly. It's that simple and that profound.
What becomes possible when your nervous system is nourished:
You can look at money without panic
You can stay present during financial conversations
You can make decisions from clarity instead of reactivity
You can access your wisdom instead of your wounds
Step 2: Unwind the Wounding
This is the healing that must be done. As you continually come back to settling and nourishing the nervous system, you create space to unlock the energy of trauma and scarcity wounding that too often drives our current feelings and actions with money. And here's what I know to be true: for many of us, our relationship to money and the behaviors that don't serve us are steeped in deep wounding and trauma.
This step is where we go beyond surface-level "money mindset" work into true healing. Maybe it's childhood experiences of scarcity or financial instability. Maybe it's messages you absorbed about your worth as a woman. Maybe it's generational patterns passed down through your family like heirlooms you never asked for. Maybe it's the trauma of debt, financial betrayal, or economic abuse. These wounds live in your body, not just your mind.
That's why thought work alone doesn't create lasting change. I learned this the hard way myself—spending years trying to "change my story" about money, only to have the same patterns resurface. And I've witnessed this same struggle in so many of the women I support: they do the mindset work, but if your body is holding the memory of unworthiness or danger around money, the old patterns will keep showing up.
In Get Right with Money, we address this through multifaceted healing:
Somatic healing: Trauma and scarcity wounding is energy and emotion frozen in time in your body. Through body-based practices, we gently release that energy and bring you into the present moment, where your power and choice reside.
Psychological healing: Using frameworks like Internal Family Systems, we work with the different parts of you that show up around money—the part that wants to charge more, the part that's terrified to, the part that overgives to prove your worth. Understanding these parts creates profound shifts.
Spiritual healing: We tap into resources beyond your conscious mind—your inner wisdom, your guides and allies, the deeper knowing that exists within you. This realm offers real, tangible shifts in how you experience yourself and money.
To tend ourselves and our relationship to money honestly is such sweet devotion to the woman you want to be. To honor the healing that is asking to be done is an act of reverence for ourselves and for life. This isn't about "fixing" what's broken—because you're not broken. This is about honoring the healing that's asking to be done, releasing what no longer serves you, and coming home to your wholeness.
What becomes possible when wounding begins to unwind:
Old patterns lose their grip
Shame transforms into compassion
You stop repeating the same cycles
You access the freedom to choose differently
Step 3: Claim Your Wisdom
When your nervous system is regulated and you've begun to heal old wounds, something remarkable happens. Something I wish I could bottle and give to every woman who's ever doubted herself: You can access your wisdom and your clarity. Not someone else's advice. Not what you "should" do. Not the rules you inherited from family or culture or a society that profits from your self-doubt. Your wisdom. The deep knowing that's been there all along but was drowned out by fear, shame, and survival responses.
This step is about coming home to yourself—to knowing your inherent worth, your capacity, and capability. It's about trusting yourself with money, maybe for the first time in your life.
In a centered, healing state, you can finally answer empowering questions like:
What do I actually value, and how do I want my money to reflect that?
What am I truly capable of earning and receiving?
What does a more than enough life look like for me—not society's definition, but mine?
What boundaries do I need to honor my energy and worth?
What do I know must change in my relationship with money?
As you release the narratives are woven into the fabric of society and family around money, abundance, and worthiness, you will feel supported and well-resourced—both internally and externally.
What becomes possible when you claim your wisdom:
You trust yourself with money decisions
You know your worth without needing external validation
You can receive money, gifts, support, and abundance without guilt
You make choices aligned with your values, not inherited beliefs
Step 4: Take Right Action
All the nervous system work, all the healing, all the wisdom-claiming leads here: to action. But not just any action—right action. And I want to distinguish something important here. Right action is different from reactivity. It's not driven by panic, shame, or scarcity. It's not you white-knuckling your way through being a “good girl” and doing money “right” while your whole body screams "danger!"
Right action flows from a regulated nervous system, healed wounds, and claimed wisdom. It's deliberate. It's aligned. And most importantly, it sticks. This is where the practical skills meet the emotional capacity. This is where you finally implement the systems, set the boundaries, have the conversations, make the changes—and they actually last because you're not fighting your own nervous system and wounds to do them.
Right action might look like:
Raising your rates from a grounded place (not from desperation or defiance)
Asking for the raise or promotion you deserve with confidence
Creating a spending plan that honors your values and capacity
Setting financial boundaries with family, clients, or friends
Tracking your money with curiosity instead of shame
Saying no to what's not aligned (whether that's underpriced work or family money requests)
Here's what makes action "right": It's deliberate and choiceful. It's aligned with your values—not what you were told to value, but what you actually value. It embodies who you are becoming. And it includes both action and rest, both doing and being, both yes and no.
One of the most important things you need to understand about this step: There is no fixed endpoint. Get Right with Money is a practice. It's responsive. It's alive to what's true in the moment. Because life isn't fixed. You're not a static being. Your relationship to money isn't, either. And that's actually the gift—because when you move away from scarcity and learn to trust yourself, you become responsive to life's ebbs and flows. You can meet each moment with the full power of your regulated nervous system, your healed wounds, and your deep wisdom.
What becomes possible through right action:
Sustainable changes that don't require willpower
Financial systems that support you instead of overwhelm you
Business decisions made from clarity and confidence
A relationship with money that feels peaceful and empowered
It all matters to your healing journey.
Perhaps you're wondering: Can't I just skip to the action part? Can't I start with Step 3 and claim my wisdom right now? I understand the impulse. I've felt it myself. But what I know to be true, both from my own journey and from supporting hundreds of women through this work: each part of the framework is supportive (and needed).
Without nervous system regulation (Step 1), you can't access the calm presence needed for healing work. You'll stay in survival mode, where real transformation isn't possible. I've tried. It doesn't work. Without unwinding the wounding (Step 2), your old patterns will keep reasserting themselves no matter how much wisdom you try to claim. The wounds will override your intentions every time. Without claiming your wisdom (Step 3), your actions won't be truly aligned. You'll be following someone else's plan, guided by someone else's values, and it won't feel right or sustainable in your bones. And if you try to jump straight to action (Step 4) without the foundation of the first three steps? That's what you've likely already tried. That's the budgeting app you abandoned, the pricing structure you couldn't use, the plan that didn't stick.
This framework works because it addresses the root cause, not just the symptoms. It's bottom-up healing—starting with the body, then moving to the mind and spirit, and finally to action. This is embodied financial healing.
This is what makes lasting change possible.
This framework grew from my own experiences with healing from wounding around money, from years of coaching and teaching women, and from learning what actually worked—for others and for me. As a CPA, I have a high skill level and understanding of how our money system works. But in my 30s, when I recognized how broken my relationship with money was, knowledge alone wasn't enough. Through my 30s and 40s, I did all of the work I was told to do, tried to implement what I knew, but it wasn’t until I addressed the wounding and trauma that things really shifted for me with money. That's when I turned to my training in psychology, nervous system work, trauma-informed practices, and yoga therapy. This integrative, bottom-up approach has evolved over time - I learned from years of teaching Get Right with Money and coaching women that it has to start with the body, then move to healing, wisdom, and finally action—this is what creates lasting change.
You are capable. You are worthy. And you can do something different with money—starting today.
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