Our Self Worth Needs Acupuncture

Our relationship with money is deeper than a spreadsheet. It's beyond our banking app. It's much more complicated than our bottom line will ever suggest. It is wrapped up in our very cells. It stretches past our hearts, deep into our littlest toes. It is in our history, in our culture, in the air we breathe and the dreams that create themselves while we sleep. Our relationship with money began generations before we were born, stretches around the blocks of our neighborhood and then loops back through our media before nestling itself right into our gut. 

Oh yeah. The gut. You know that sense of a pit in your stomach? You might forget that place even exists until about 2 a.m., when you get an achy feeling right there, telling you something is wrong. There isn’t enough money, we forgot to pay a bill, we're not sure how we will pay for college, or retirement. These thoughts light us up from the inside out and the anxiety pulls on all these threads until it's just a bunch of knots, coming from who knows where. Spreadsheet? Whatever.

Our poor spreadsheet doesn't stand a chance. 

Our financial advisors make it look so easy. Sure. Just do this and spend that and don't spend this and VOILA! The math all adds up and we are good to go. Oh poor naive financial advisors. They don't know about our guts. 

Our money self is complicated. And it needs to be nurtured. It needs us to listen to its stories. Hear its fears. It needs to be soothed and healed and then like any good identity, it needs to stretch its little wings and grow past its own trauma. It needs to take a few trepidatious steps and then learn to outgrow its own history. Our money self needs a therapist. And a nice forest walk. It needs a financial empowerment class and maybe a massage. And would you believe it needs an acupuncturist? 

In Chinese medicine, there are specific organs and energetic pathways (called meridians or channels) that correlate to value and self worth. Specifically they are organs associated with the metal element, one of five elements that are part of the philosophical underpinnings of acupuncture. The metal element corresponds with the lung and large intestine organs and meridians, and while they serve the same biomedical function that we are familiar with, in Chinese medicine they have energetic and emotional functions that regulate our relationship with our money, self-worth, and value. Can you imagine what emotional constipation and diarrhea might look like in relation to our wealth? Imagine what emotional oxygen and inspiration might look like in giving us more vitality as it relates to our wealth and how to manage it.

We are partnering with Laura Goff to offer community acupuncture focusing on our self-worth and relationship with money. Interested? Let us know and we will keep you in the loop!

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