In today’s episode, we’re unpacking one of the most painful and unspoken legacies of high‑control religion: financial fear that lives in the body.

For many of us, money was never neutral. It became fused with spiritual worthiness, obedience, punishment, and survival. And long after leaving, our nervous systems still respond to money as if danger is hiding inside our bank accounts.

In this episode, I share:

• how childhood scarcity formed the foundation for later religious control
• the subtle ways tithing, surveillance, and scarcity doctrine wire the body for fear
• why financial anxiety isn’t a personal flaw — it’s a survival pattern
• what shifted during my recent 4‑day nervous system reset
• how my body stopped interpreting money as danger
• why wanting financial well‑being is not greed — it’s regulation and sovereignty
• what true prosperity actually feels like in a regulated body

This conversation is tender, honest, and deeply validating if money has ever made you brace, freeze, or panic — even when the numbers are fine.

Freedom begins when your body stops treating money like a threat.
And you are allowed to have enough.

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