The Reverence Framework
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What is The Reverence Framework?
The Reverence Framework is a six-step trauma-sensitive embodied, spiritual, psychological, and energetically rooted approach to healing your relationship with money. I created this for myself and for soulful, sensitive service providers such as coaches, therapists, psychologists, creatives, and healing professionals.
This framework absolutely helps you to do your money differently, to move from scarcity wounding to abundance, both of which empower you to create and experience your vision of a more than enough business and life.
So let's dive in.
Step 1: To Root & Resource
The first step is to root and to resource. Straightaway, this is different than how most money programs would advise you to proceed.
Traditional guidance regarding shifting behavior with money begins and ends with financial skills and maybe mindset. Yes, skills and mindset are so important, but oftentimes for spiritual soulful women, the challenge is societal and familial conditioning that activates the nervous system. In other words, money, marketing, pricing, taxes, tracking, investing - any and all of it - is anxiety-provoking and often engenders either controlling behavior or avoidance.
So the first step is to actively cultivate a sense of calm and safety in the body. In this way, you are able to be more consciously in the present moment and have access to the wisest parts of yourself as you navigate the relationship with your money.
Step 2: Remember
The second step is to Remember. Once you have found calm and presence in step 1, to Remember is an opportunity to truthfully and compassionately take stock of where you are.
To know where you want to go, you must have the courage to see and understand where you are right now. To Remember is an opportunity to survey the landscape of your relationship with money, which includes looking at what's happening on a practical level with your money, but also what's happening internally. How are you feeling about what's happening between you and money?
Once you understand the contours of your relationship with money, you're able to move to step three, which is active, multifaceted healing.
Step 3: Restore
To Restore is an opportunity to tend to the trauma and the scarcity wounding that drives control or avoidance, fear and anxiety, and unconscious societal conditioning. To Restore utilizes somatic, soul, and spiritual tools and practices to heal and release trauma and wounding around money, worthiness, and scarcity.
This is a beautiful step and one that doesn't really end. Though we often want to "fix" our relationship with money and be done with it, it doesn't always work that way. Oftentimes, if you have experienced trauma or scarcity wounding related to money and worthiness, to Restore will become part of a beautiful practice that helps you tend to what's happening inside of you and also between you and your money and your resources. This embodied, spiritual, and psychological healing naturally leads to mindset shifts, however, it's vital to update your narratives - to Recalibrate.
Step 4: Recalibrate
To recalibrate is to get current right after we look at what's happening and we do some healing work. The thing is, we need to update our narratives after we've metabolized old wounds and traumas. We need to allow ourselves to notice what's actually alive in us - what has shifted? How do we want to move forward? So to Recalibrate is to notice what's true today and what is possible for us as a new narrative emerges from the empowerment of healing.
Step 5: Receive
As we recalibrate, we are able to move into step five, which is to Receive. Often, what women notice is that the nature of this moment is far more abundant and rich once the scarcity wound begins to unravel. To Receive really lights the path that moves you towards your more than enough business and life.
To Receive gives you access to a depth of abundance that is so deeply nourishing, it is sustenance. To Receive is healing, yes, but it also is the foundation for visioning and creating your more-than-enough business and life by giving you access to what's really available to you both within you and all around you.
Step 6: Right Action
The final step is Right-action, however, every step of the framework is a call to act, isn't it? However, this step is a call to reflect on (and move forward with) what Right-Action is for you now that you are shifting your relationship with money and worthiness and coming into a sense of more than enough.
Action is the lynchpin of transformation and it shifts and changes when we are able to stop reacting from scarcity wounding and trauma around our money. Right action is the embodiment of choices made from an experience of our wholeness and power.
The Reverence Framework is a practice.
The framework does not lead to a place of completion but deepening. Yes, you move through regulating the nervous system, developing awareness, coming into a relationship of healing with yourself, your money, and your resources, and that supports ease in shifting the narrative but the ultimate goal is to shift our day-to-day choices and actions to align with who we are, and who we wish to be.
That process of growth and of becoming is a forever kind of thing. Personally, I move through this Framework once, if not multiple times per day which is a post for another day.
You are worthy and deserving.
The Reverence Framework is an invitation to affirm who you are becoming with your money and as a worthy human being. You are someone who deserves to live your vision of a more than enough life and business. May The Reverence Framework support you to do just that.