You know that lighter feeling after a big cathartic money conversation or healing session? The one where it feels like something just shifted?

That feeling and actual change are not the same thing.

Awareness is where change starts. But if you stop there, you can spend years understanding your money patterns without ever actually changing them. I've watched this happen with clients for over a decade, first as a tax preparer for healers and creatives, and now through my work with Cosmic Currency.

In this episode...

🪞 Why feeling like you made progress with your money doesn't always mean you did

🔥 The real reason healing work and affirmations alone won't rewrite your money patterns

⚡ What actually creates lasting change (it's simpler than you'd think)

🕸️ How all that "healing work" can become its own form of avoidance

Tune in and you'll walk away knowing exactly what separates people who transform their money story from people who stay stuck in the loop of understanding it. You'll also get a front row seat to why real change comes from what you do next, not just from how deep the realization felt.

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Avoidance May Be Keeping You Stuck

If you've been around here for more than a minute, you've probably heard me talk about avoidance and money. Most of the people I work with fit into that category in some way before they move through Cosmic Currency.

You might not identify with it right away. And if that's the case, it's usually because you are paying attention. Your attention is just going to the awareness step and stopping there.

So in this drop, I want to get into why awareness alone doesn't create change. And I want to take it a level deeper when it comes to your money story specifically.

What I Saw As a Tax Preparer

Before I did the work I do now, I was a tax preparer for the alternative community. Healers, bodyworkers, creatives, people deep in self-development work.

Everyone is unique. But there were some patterns I saw again and again once these folks sat down across from me to do their taxes.

For one, their relationship with money wasn't very structured. A lot of them worked in the flow, pay what you can, by donation. Some weren't even fully on the books. But what they did put a lot of time into was their healing. Psychedelics, ceremonies, all kinds of modalities.

And when it came to their money problems, most of the energy they spent went toward awareness. Understanding their wounds, their patterns, their relationship to scarcity. They were on an endless pursuit to peel back the layers of the onion.

Awareness Is Where You Start, Not Where You Stay

You can probably see where I'm going with this. Awareness is the first step to creating change. You can't actually shift your patterns without looking at them, naming them, and claiming them.

You can't outrun your patterns. You have to integrate them, transcend them, and include them. In other words, evolve them. That's facts.

But here's the catch. If you stay in awareness mode, it can feel like progress because of the catharsis that comes with it. You feel something shift emotionally, so it seems like real change is happening.

I'm sorry, not sorry, if that's a harsh call out. I say it because I care. I don't want you stuck in scarcity and stress cycles that suck for you.

Why Action Is the Missing Piece

Here's what I've seen actually gets someone through to the other side. What actually makes it possible to shift your money story and start trusting yourself with it again.

It's not some mysterious thing. It's simple. You need to take action.

You have to start acting differently with your money. You have to show yourself, through real experiences, that it's safe to do that. You have to prove to yourself that you've got your own back, that you won't shy away, and that you're willing to commit to tending your money like a relationship. Because that's what it is.

The Cosmic Money Reset Challenge

Today, the day this episode airs, is day one of the Summer Cosmic Money Reset Challenge. If you're in it, you already heard me talk about this in your day one video (if not, get on the waitlist for the next one).

The challenge is a good example of everything I just described. You can have a profound, cathartic shift in there. You can glimpse the potential available to you and interrupt an old pattern in just five days.

But unless you commit to an ongoing practice, to actually beating the drum of consistency, that shift turns into just a memory. It becomes a cathartic experience you had once, not a new way you actually live in.

Simple, Not Easy

This is why I always say shifting your relationship with money is not easy, but it is simple.

The mind games we play with ourselves when we're avoiding what we need to do can look a lot like healing. Endless affirmations, endless mantras, endless understanding, with no actual doing.

Learning what you never learned matters. But so does practicing it, over and over, until it stops feeling hard. At first, interrupting a hardwired pattern feels difficult. But the actual steps you need to take are simple.

You've probably experienced this in other parts of your life too. Once you finally do the thing you've been avoiding, you realize the resistance and the backlog around it were so much heavier than the task itself. The avoidance pile is almost always bigger than the thing you're avoiding.

If This Is You

If you feel called out by this one, if you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, I get it. Avoidance cycles can feel like an addiction. We get attached to whatever we've put in the way of what we know we actually need to do.

If you know you could use support, accountability, and a simplified path forward, and you know the boring, popularized version of finance was never going to work for you, this is exactly the work I do inside Cosmic Currency.

I have a priority list where you'll find out about new seats before I open them to the general public. If this sounds like your kind of magic, head to cosmicb.link/currency to get your name on the list.

Because having a good relationship with money makes everything else flow better.

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