Podcast Summary
A mother's journey to self-acceptance after ADHD diagnosis: Seeking a diagnosis for ADHD can lead to self-acceptance and understanding that struggles are not personal shortcomings.
Catherine Morgan's journey to understanding and accepting her ADHD diagnosis was sparked by her desire to support her son. As a financial expert and mother, she resonated with many symptoms of ADHD and sought a diagnosis for herself. The process was emotionally challenging, but ultimately led to a profound realization that her struggles with money and other areas of her life were not due to personal shortcomings, but rather a result of her ADHD. Catherine's experience highlights the importance of self-acceptance and understanding that a diagnosis can provide, even amidst potential shame or fear of judgment from others. Additionally, her expertise in financial empowerment and resilience can be valuable resources for women with ADHD navigating their own financial journeys.
Understanding and Empowerment through Diagnosis: A diagnosis can provide insight into past experiences, equip individuals with knowledge, and empower them to navigate their future. Early diagnosis for children can help parents understand their unique needs. Financial abuse and trauma are linked, and individuals should be aware of red flags and seek support to heal.
Receiving a diagnosis, whether it's for ADHD or other conditions, can be a powerful moment of understanding and empowerment. It can help individuals identify patterns and experiences from their past and equip them with the knowledge to navigate their present and future. For parents, an early diagnosis for their children can be particularly beneficial, as it can help them understand their child's unique needs and provide compassionate guidance. Furthermore, financial abuse and financial trauma are linked issues that are not well-known but can keep individuals in abusive situations. Financial abuse involves coercive control over finances, and it's crucial for individuals to be aware of potential red flags and seek support to heal from its effects. The intergenerational impact of financial abuse is significant, and ensuring women have access to financial resources is essential to promote financial resilience and independence.
Women facing financial insecurity in abusive relationships: Women in abusive relationships may struggle to seek help due to financial insecurity and coercive control, which can lead to isolation. Support and resources are available to help women rebuild their financial capacity and break free from unhealthy relationships or friendships.
Women trapped in abusive relationships due to financial insecurity can face significant challenges in seeking help and building financial resilience. Coercive control can lead to isolation, making it difficult for women to ask for assistance. Identifying signs of manipulation, such as absence from social environments, is crucial. Support lines and resources are available for women to confidentially seek financial advice and rebuild their financial capacity. Neurodivergent women, including those with ADHD, may struggle with money due to deeply rooted beliefs and unconscious allegiances to poverty. Breaking the addiction to trauma is essential for healing, as individuals with ADHD can unintentionally seek out dangerous relationships or friendships due to their sensitive nervous systems. This process can be challenging but ultimately leads to greater emotional and financial resilience.
Our emotions and money connection: By acknowledging and addressing emotional blocks, women can make better financial decisions and live abundant lives.
Our relationship with money is deeply connected to our nervous system and emotions. When we feel safe and secure, we make better financial decisions. The speaker, who used to be a financial adviser, shares how her near-tragic experience with her son led her to reevaluate her relationship with money and shift her career focus to helping women overcome their emotional blocks around money. Many women, especially, have been disempowered historically and feel shame around their financial worth. The speaker's work aims to help women reclaim their power and invest ethically, contributing positively to the world. By addressing the emotional and psychological aspects of money, women can step into their worthiness and live abundant lives.
Exploring core money beliefs for financial resilience: Identifying inherited family traumas and challenging limiting money beliefs leads to financial resilience and a balanced family life.
Empowering women financially and reducing overwhelm in family life are essential steps towards creating a better world for ourselves and future generations. For those dealing with ADHD and feeling overwhelmed by family life, the journey towards financial resilience can seem daunting. A good starting point is identifying core money beliefs, which often stem from inherited family traumas. By exploring these beliefs and understanding where they come from, we can begin to challenge and reframe them, leading to a healthier relationship with money and a more balanced family life. Join the upcoming live workshop on May 24th at 1 PM for practical steps and support in this journey. Remember, you deserve financial well-being and resilience, and it's never too late to start.
Present moment finance management for neurodivergent individuals: Focusing on the present moment and releasing past shame can help neurodivergent individuals effectively manage finances using a blend of somatic work, heart space, and nervous system regulation.
Managing finances with a focus on the present moment and expanding energy can be an effective approach, especially for individuals with ADHD or neurodivergence. This method involves releasing past shame, connecting to the heart's energy, and asking specific questions to draw on the present moment's energy for making financial decisions. By focusing on movement and expansion instead of long-term goals, individuals can avoid the contracting energies and feelings of needing, shoulding, or waiting that can be challenging for neurodivergent individuals. This approach blends masculine and feminine energies, using somatic work, heart space, and nervous system regulation for a softer, more gentle approach to managing finances.
Shift your mindset towards money as energy: Challenging limiting beliefs and using expansive language can help expand brain's capacity to create a positive identity with money, leading to increased abundance in all areas of life.
The way we think and talk about money significantly impacts our relationship with it. Traditional money management terms like "budget" and "restrictions" can feel daunting and limiting, whereas using expansive language and seeing money as energy can help us expand our brain's capacity to create a new, more positive identity with money. Society also plays a role in shaping our beliefs about money, and it's essential to challenge limiting beliefs and shift the narrative. An exercise to practice this shift is focusing on gratitude and appreciation for the money we have, rather than focusing on scarcity or lack. This mindset shift can lead to an increase in abundance, not just in financial terms, but in all areas of life. Money is not who we are, but rather a tool that can be used to create opportunities and experiences. By separating our identity from money and seeing it as energy that can be generated and received, we can open ourselves up to more abundance and opportunities.
Practicing Receiving and Holding: To improve ability to receive and hold wealth, love, and joy, reflect on opportunities to open up and where you can hold, addressing past experiences or inherited family trauma.
Abundance and gratitude are resources that go beyond money. They are feelings of appreciation, worthiness, and safety to receive. To practice this, consider how you respond to compliments as an opportunity to fully receive. This exercise is not limited to those with less wealth, as even those with abundant resources may struggle to hold onto them due to an inability to fully receive and hold love and joy. This inability can stem from past experiences or inherited family trauma, particularly those involving a break in the bond with the mother. To begin, ask yourself, "Where am I opening myself up for opportunities to receive, and where am I able to hold?" This practice can help improve your ability to receive and hold wealth, love, and joy.
Healing Guilt for Financial Growth: Healing guilt improves personal growth, opens new opportunities, and benefits future generations by addressing past traumas and beliefs.
Emotional connections and addressing emotions like guilt have a significant impact on our ability to make and hold onto money. Guilt, a complex emotion, is not as low-vibrational as shame and can be shifted towards responsibility. Healing guilt involves identifying the experience and practicing self-forgiveness. This work not only benefits us but also future generations by healing past traumas and beliefs. Although it may feel challenging, it lays foundations for personal growth and opens up new opportunities. To get started, check out the free book "It's Not About the Money" on the website or listen to the podcast of the same name. For more personalized guidance, explore coaching opportunities.
Empowering Women Financially with Catherine Morgan: Catherine Morgan's Women's Wealth Way empowers women financially through various methods, including group programs, consultations, coaching, retreats, and client training. Listeners are encouraged to bring their passions and authentic selves to the world while achieving financial resilience.
Catherine's organization, Women's Wealth Way, empowers women financially through various methods, including group programs, one-on-one consultations, coaching sessions, immersive retreats, and trained clients. The goal is to make financial support accessible to women at different stages of their financial journey. Catherine encourages listeners to explore how they can bring their passions and authentic selves to the world while achieving financial resilience. She invites listeners to share this episode, leave reviews, and visit her website for resources and workshops.
