How Your Nervous System Shapes Your Money Habits with Stephanie Crochet

Have you ever had a phone call with your mother, and the next thing you know, you're in the pantry eating a ding dong? Yeah. How about those moments when you know you're about to look at your checking accounts but get up and decide to run instead?

What just happened? In those moments, what's actually happening is your nervous system has taken over to keep you safe and secure when you feel scared or uneasy.

Stephanie Crochet is a nervous system regulation coach, and I've been working with her personally. I have her working with the women inside the Abundance Academy, and the results are already pretty astounding.

When you regulate your nervous system, you really start to understand what you need to be at your best. We're talking about how we react. Just that simple conversation alone will probably shift your entire day.

Stephanie loves creating a safe space for women to be authentically themselves. Her passion began in teaching yoga, and she found herself there.

"So much of our habits and our beliefs and our patterns as women is shaped for us by society, cultures, environments we grew up in. And yoga gave me the permission to be myself," she says. "I have a seven-year-old daughter. It's really important that I'm an example of a woman who is aligned in her body, aligned with what she values, knows how to make herself feel safe from the inside so that she can step into the world, be safe to be who she is."

A regulated person is someone who is in harmony with themselves; they feel in balance. This doesn't mean they're avoiding bad or sad feelings or triggers, but they can be balanced in that state. For example, Stephanie says you could be exhausted but still be present. You wouldn't try to numb, fight, or resist the exhaustion.

"When we don't know how to regulate, we are trying to seek comfort outside of ourselves," says Stephanie. "Being able to hold space for both, which your nervous system has capacity for."

Because our nervous systems are shaped by past life experiences and beliefs, everyone will react differently when triggered.

"How we react a lot of the time is done on autopilot. So we might not even be aware of our reaction, and we might not even be aware of the response we're going to give to that reaction," says Stephanie. "That actually is a dysregulated nervous system."

Dysregulation is like an autopilot way of living because you no longer control the action.

When women start dealing with money, making money, and managing money, we can get triggered. And our nervous system can shape our money habits.

Someone who grew up facing scarcity might be an overachiever who can't relax. They might hit a financial goal and won't celebrate it because they feel it's not enough. Someone who grew up in abundance might avoid a relationship with money because it was always there. They might not know how to handle it.

Stephanie says it all starts with you. Ask what your relationship is with your body—not just physically but how you connect with yourself inside. How are you taking care of your body? How are you nourishing it?

"We can't go after the big goals and do all the things and help all the people we want to help. If we're not first pouring into our own cup, that's also like safety right there," she says.

The nervous system's role is to feel. So, if you want to reshape your money habits, ask what practice will fill you up and bring you joy and safety. Your nervous system needs a felt experience, a felt practice, for it to integrate.

Look at the practices that will help you reshape your thoughts and create new neural pathways to become who you are. Understanding what you need before you take action will look different for everyone.

"You have to start with an action. You have to start with a felt experience. And for everyone, that particular practice is going to be different because we're all responding differently to how we're surviving right now in life," says Stephanie.

0:00 Intro
4:35 Becoming a Nervous System Regulation Coach
8:40 What it means to be regulated
11:00 When you're dysregulated
13:35 Shaping Money Habits
18:55 Safety in the body
28:50 Instinct and nervous system
31:15 Rewriting money habits
38:18 Contacting Stephanie

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Website: https://www.stephaniecrochet.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephcrochetyoga/
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