Stop Bending Over - Align Your Life For Radical Success
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Stop Bending Over - Align Your Life For Radical Success
(#53) Part 1: The Poverty Wound Identity: Why You Panic Around Money
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If you’ve ever felt constant money anxiety - even when you’re earning, saving, budgeting, or “doing the work” - this episode explains exactly why. In Part 1 of the Identity Series, Rita breaks down The Poverty Wound Identity: a deep unconscious pattern rooted in early scarcity, instability, and emotional survival.
Most women think they have a money problem.
They don’t.
They have a nervous system pattern built in childhood - one that tells the body it’s unsafe, unsupported, or “not enough,” even when money is coming in.
In this episode, you’ll learn how the Poverty Wound forms, why it bypasses logic, why high-achieving women still have money panic, and how it connects to codependency, over-functioning, fear-based decision-making, and self-abandonment.
This episode starts the 4-part Identity Series and helps you understand your money story.
Top 3 Takeaways:
- The Poverty Wound is about identity, not income.
- Childhood scarcity wiring shapes your money patterns and nervous system responses.
- Healing requires safety, emotional awareness, and identity shifts, not more grinding.
Timestamps
[01:30] What the Poverty Wound actually is
[04:00] Why money feels unsafe (no matter how much you have)
[07:45] Childhood origins of scarcity wiring
[13:00] Nervous system patterns + survival-mode spending
[17:20] How codependency shows up in your money life
[22:00] Why high achievers still feel “not enough” financially
[26:30] How to begin shifting the Poverty Wound identity
Resources & Links:
- “What does money ‘mean’ to me emotionally?”
- “Where in my body do I feel money fear?”
- “What did I learn about safety, stability, and survival growing up?”
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