How Your Nervous System Impacts Financial Security & Business

In collaboration with Mums Who Build (MOB)

When it comes to building wealth and financial security, most people focus on strategy, marketing, and hard work. But what if I told you that your body—specifically, your nervous system and your fundamental beliefs about money—play a critical role in your financial outcomes?

These deeper, often overlooked factors could be the key to unlocking your ability to manifest what you truly desire, not only in your business and finances but in your personal life too.

What Does Your Nervous System Have to Do With Wealth?

When we first get serious about our financial security, we often come across mindset work. It's no secret that our ingrained beliefs about money greatly impact how we approach financial matters—whether it’s making enough (or more than enough!) or deciding to manage and grow our wealth.

Through my own journey with money, I realised there’s more beyond mindset work when it comes to rewiring our beliefs. Addressing mindset was only one side of the coin. To fully shift toward an abundant mindset, I had to dig deeper into my physiology.

I often see people repeating money patterns inherited from their parents. Some are great at making money, but it flows through their fingers as soon as they get it. Others, like me, grew up thinking we had "just enough," while outsiders perceived us as rich. I never understood why but I could certainly track this pattern in my adult life. Looking glam from the outside, yet my lived experience wasn't so lavish...

Or maybe you struggle to bring money in at all—this might mean you have material wealth conflated with personal worth. You get my drift.

What we learn early on sticks with us until we consciously decide to tackle our money story head on. That moment is typically some kind of major life crises or shift when we have to put our big girl panties on and get responsible about providing for and looking after ourselves like becoming parents, changing careers, setting up a business or becoming a single parent.

But Where Does the Nervous System Come In?

I like to think of the nervous system—specifically the autonomic branch, which controls bodily functions like heart rate and digestion—as the blueprint for our emotional and mental landscape. The flexibility of our nervous system is mirrored in our relationships, thoughts, and feelings.

For example, if you’re stuck in a loop of negative thoughts, it’s not just your mind at play. Your nervous system could be in a chronic fight/flight/freeze/collapse state, making it nearly impossible to "think your way out" of overwhelm.

To shift your mindset, you must also regulate your nervous system to build resilience and maintain balance.

Regulated Nervous System = Money Resilience

A dysregulated nervous system affects our mental health and our ability to be practical and forward-thinking about money & life in general.

In somatic trauma therapy, we say that a healthy nervous system is flexible—it can return to regulation and hold charge without spilling over. Simply put, a robust nervous system helps us stay present and reasonable, even in stressful situations, instead of losing our s*it or putting our head in the sand.

This resilience is crucial for making, managing, keeping, and growing wealth.

Building a Business? Your Money Story and Nervous System Will Be Front & Centre

If you’re reading this, you’re likely not only a mom but also an entrepreneur. Many women I’ve met in the MOB community juggle motherhood and running a business. It's no small feat—your nervous system is constantly in "survival mode."

Starting a soul-led business forces you to confront your deepest patterns and beliefs about yourself, including your relationship to money. It will take you on a wild journey and you’ll face everything that stands in the way of your fullest expression and a healthy bank balance.

Building my business has been a process of unraveling and dissolving outdated beliefs and identities that no longer support my journey toward financial, mental & spiritual freedom…

A Bottom-Up, Top-Down Approach to Rewiring Money Beliefs

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