If you’re starting to feel the world’s panic and fear slowly inject itself into your peace, I want to tell you a story today, because it’ll lift a big weight off your chest and bring you back to a sense of security.  When I was 8 years old, a scary incident in an elevator changed me forever. I was on the way to a swim lesson with my sister and our caretaker Milly. (My mother worked full time as a teacher during summer school sessions, so she needed the extra help at home!) As we stepped into the elevator on the fifth floor and the doors closed, the elevator made a slight shudder. We paid it no mind because …

Every year, hundreds of people book sessions with me to explore working together.  At the end of those calls, we always talk about money/what they want to invest in Capacity Work™. After ten years of these calls, I’ve learned A LOT about sneaky ways we sabotage and even reject money.  Observing the way a person reacts to the money part of that exploratory conversation often shows me why they’re experiencing money plateaus in the first place. It also tells me how and when they’ll plateau financially if it hasn’t happened already. Wanna know what I’ve learned? Here are SOME patterns I’ve noticed that reveal hidden Money Capacity issues (see if you can see yourself in some of these): IMMEDIATE SHUTDOWN …

  One of my clients during an in-person retreat One of my longtime mentors, Voge Smith, told me an amazing story the other day (it’s so good, she put it in her book). An old Zen story of a man who’d spent his entire life searching for God. On his long and arduous search spanning many years, he finally meets someone who tells him “I can take you to where God lives.”   This leads him to a house with a long set of stairs and the stranger tells him, “God’s up there in a room at the end of the stairs. When you get there, just knock on His door and you’ll meet Him.”  The man climbs up the long …

  I had a client fretting this week because she raised her prices and she got a “no” from someone she quoted the new price to. She was going into self-doubt about raising her price and questioning herself. She’d felt her client’s money fear and it got to her. Now — I think this IS a valid question. COULD your price be too high? Yes, sometimes. Sure. BUT – in the last 10 years of working with people, I’ve seen women say no to a $1,000 investment because they “had already invested in another coaching program” and then go buy themselves a $2,000 item and post about it on social media. I’ve seen people who claim they don’t have the …

  Me and clients in front of a waterfall at one of my retreats. I’ll never forget the message I got from her. It said, “Money manifesting is a SCAM.” A few weeks ago, she’d come across a VERY well known manifestation teacher. Millions of followers. Thousands raving about all they manifested with her secret manifesting formula (that you could download for $11). She bought it. Then she wrote her intention down 100 times BY HAND every day for the next seven days (just as the “foolproof” manifestation formula told her to do). By the end of those seven days, nothing happened. But she was patient. She waited a month, nothing. She tried it again, this time asking for something …