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Money & Safety

 

Shift from survival mode to a grounded sense of sufficiency

 

Trauma can deeply shape our relationship with money and our sense of safety.
It can leave us in survival mode, struggling with scarcity, guilt, or fear around financial decisions. Whether you’re working through instability, generational patterns, or anxiety about security, this space helps you build a more grounded, empowered, and healing relationship with money and safety.

 

 

How Trauma Shapes Our Financial Beliefs & Behaviours

 

  • How trauma shapes your sense of safety, stability, and enoughness

  • Common financial behaviors rooted in survival patterns (hoarding, avoidance, overspending)

  • Signs of trauma-based scarcity vs. regulated, empowered decision-making

  • A checklist: “Am I relating to money from fear — or from trust?”

INFO GUIDE

Why Safety Feels So Out of Reach — Even When It’s There

 

2–5 min explainer by a therapist or founder — includes metaphors and examples (e.g., “the porcupine dance”)

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Mini-Course: 

Trauma to Trust: A Financial Nervous System Reset

 

Topics:
  • Scarcity
  • Under-earning
  • Self-worth and money

Journal Prompts

 

 

What was my family’s relationship to money?

 

 

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Audio: Body scan for safety around abundance

 

Peer story

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I have never considered myself an artistic person, but after 3 courses, I have gotten out of my own head and created several pieces I’m proud to display.

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1. Info Sheet (PDF Download):
 

Title: Trauma & Relationships: What You Need to Know
 

Includes:

 

  • How trauma shapes attachment styles
  • Common relational patterns from unresolved trauma
  • Signs of trauma-based connection vs. healthy intimacy
  • A checklist: “Are my boundaries trauma-informed or fear-driven?”

 

2. Short Video:

Title: Why We Push Away What We Want Most

2–5 min explainer by a therapist or founder — includes metaphors and examples (e.g., “the porcupine dance”)

3. Mini-Course:

Title: 5-Day Relationship Reset

Description: A trauma-informed micro-course to help you:

  • Identify one trauma-driven pattern
  • Strengthen boundaries with compassion
  • Practice nervous system regulation in moments of conflict
  • Learn to ask for what you need without guilt
  • Start trusting again — one moment at a time

4. Reflection Prompt / Journal Exercise:

  • “What would a safe relationship feel like to your body?”
  • “When do I abandon myself to keep peace?”

 

Optional Add-ons:

  • A short audio meditation: Safety in Connection
  • Peer story: “How healing my trauma helped me show up differently in love”

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