Healing Your Relationship with Money – How to Trust Yourself with Wealth
- Nicole Chetcuti, ISTP

- Mar 21, 2025
- 3 min read
Your Money Struggles Aren’t About Money – They’re About Self-Worth
If you find yourself constantly stressing over finances, undercharging for your work, or feeling guilty about spending on yourself—your relationship with money needs healing.
Most people think financial success comes from better budgeting, working harder, or earning more. But the truth? Your self-worth and nervous system responses are dictating your entire financial reality.
If you find yourself:
✅ Feeling guilty about making or spending money
✅ Struggling to ask for a raise or charge what you’re worth
✅ Avoiding financial decisions due to fear
✅ Feeling uncomfortable when you have "too much" money
✅ Constantly feeling like money is slipping through your fingers
Then your body has been wired to see money as unsafe.
How Your Self-Worth is Linked to Your Financial Reality
Your beliefs about money aren’t logical—they’re emotional and deeply ingrained in your nervous system.
If you were taught that:
Money is hard to earn
Rich people are greedy or selfish
You have to work endlessly to be worthy of success
Then your body associates financial security with guilt, fear, or struggle. This means even when money comes in, your subconscious will find a way to push it away, reject opportunities, or sabotage financial success.
💰 Self-worth wounds show up in your money habits as:
✅ Undercharging or giving away services for free
✅ Feeling undeserving of financial success
✅ Struggling to receive money without guilt
✅ Avoiding financial growth opportunities
✅ Feeling afraid of financial stability because it’s unfamiliar
Your self-worth is directly reflected in how you earn, receive, and manage money.
Why Trusting Yourself with Money Feels Hard
If you’ve experienced instability, scarcity, or financial trauma in the past, your body has learned that money isn’t reliable.
💡 This leads to:
Feeling anxious about financial decisions
Overthinking spending, saving, or investing
Fear of "messing up" with money
Always feeling like there’s "not enough"
This isn’t about financial intelligence—it’s about nervous system regulation. Until you retrain your body to feel safe with wealth, these patterns will keep repeating.
How to Heal Your Relationship with Money
The key to financial abundance isn’t just about making more money—it’s about feeling safe holding, spending, and receiving it.
🌿 Step 1: Identify Your Money Triggers
Notice when financial stress activates fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
What emotions or past experiences come up?
🧘♀️ Step 2: Regulate Your Nervous System Around Money
Use breathwork, EFT tapping, or nervous system regulation to shift out of survival mode.
Train your body to experience money without stress responses.
💰 Step 3: Strengthen Your Self-Worth & Trust in Money
Challenge limiting beliefs ("I don’t deserve wealth," "I can’t trust myself with money")
Practice receiving money without guilt
Reframe financial decisions as acts of self-care and expansion
How "The Pit To Peace" Helps You Heal Money Trauma
Inside The Pit To Peace, we go beyond mindset shifts—we reprogram financial self-worth wounds at the nervous system level so you can:
✨ Feel safe and confident with money
✨ Stop making financial decisions from stress or fear
✨ Rewire survival-based money habits into abundance-based patterns
✨ Finally build a healthy, empowered relationship with wealth
🔗 Join The Pit To Peace Now! And, start rewriting your money story today.
Final Thoughts + Next Steps
Your relationship with money is a direct reflection of your self-worth, emotional patterns, and nervous system wiring. When you heal at the root, financial success becomes natural and sustainable.
🎧 Listen to the full Money Wounds Podcast Series for deeper healing. Listen on Spotify+Apple Podcasts
👉 Drop a ‘💰’ in the comments if you’re ready to rewire your money story!








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