Money Trauma in Business Part 3: When Spreadsheets Aren't Enough business leadership business stress cash flow stress entrepreneur nervous system financial overwhelm money trauma spreadsheets trauma informed business Sep 08, 2025

Most entrepreneurs are taught to solve money problems with strategy. When cash flow is tight, the advice is to cut costs, increase sales, or build a new forecast. When profits dip, you’re told to get ...

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The Hustle Trap: Why Working Harder Isn't the Answer business sustainability entrepreneurship hustle culture money trauma nervous system regulation rest Sep 04, 2025

So many business owners I work with tell me, “If I could just work harder, I’d finally break through.” It sounds reasonable on the surface, but this belief is deeply tangled in money trauma.

For many...

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Money Trauma in Business Part 2: The Silent Cost business stress entrepeneur wellness financial stress in business leadership and money money trauma nervous system Sep 02, 2025

When we talk about money struggles in business, the focus is usually on the obvious: cash flow, budgets, sales goals, and making payroll.

But money trauma doesn’t just live in your bank account. It w...

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Why I Created a Space for Neurodivergent Women Practice Owners nd women entrepreneurs neurodivergent therapists private practice support therapist burnout Sep 01, 2025

When I started my own therapy practice, I thought I was chasing freedom. No more agency rules. No more productivity quotas. No more supervisors breathing down my neck. Just me, my clients, and the vis...

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When Money Trauma Runs Your Business: Part 1 Naming the Pattern cultivating bricolage entrepeneur wellness financial coaching money mindset money trauma nervous system healing small business support Aug 25, 2025

That Knot in Your Stomach Before Payroll

If you’ve ever stared at your business bank account the night before payroll and felt your chest tighten, you are not alone.

If you’ve avoided opening ...

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When the Sky Caught Fire: Reflections on Loss, Fear, and Gratitude audhd women burnout recovery cultivating bricolage fire trauma gratitude practice life lessons mental health reflections parenting anxiety rebuilding after loss resilience Aug 21, 2025

Last weekend, three houses down from us, the sky lit up orange in the middle of the night. Lightning had struck, and before I could even fully register what was happening, flames were shooting into th...

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You Don't Have to Burn Out to Begin Again bricolage intensives burnout recovery coaching for creatives creative leadership emotional regulation feminine leadership nervous system coaching rest before action seasonal transitions Aug 19, 2025

As the season shifts, you may be feeling it:

The calendar tightens.
The creative pressure returns.
The emotional tides rise—before the work even starts.

Whether you’re preparing to lead, launch, reeme...

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Now That School Is Back in Session: Finding Your Rhythm Amid the Chaos back to school burnout prevention family routines mental health for moms mom life professional moms rhythms & rituals self care stress management work-life balance Aug 18, 2025

Now that school is back in session, the calendar isn’t just full — it’s overflowing. Mornings feel like a sprint, afternoons dissolve into a blur of activities, and somewhere between school pick-ups, ...

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Reclaiming Your Worth: Healing the Silent Wounds of Money Trauma cultivating bricolage dawn leprich-graves healing financial burnout intentional living money healing therapeutic entrepeneurship trauma-informed finances Jul 21, 2025

Money carries more than numbers.

For many women, it carries shame, silence, and survival.
If you've ever felt a tightening in your chest when opening a bill, hesitated to raise your rates, or avoided...

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The Power of Bricolage: How Women Rebuild When the Blueprint Breaks authenticliving bricolage coaching empowerment feminineleadership innervoice inspiredliving intuition lifecoaching listeningwithin mindfulreflection motivationalquote personaldevelopment personalgrowth quietstrength selfgrowth transformation visionarywomen womeninbusiness Jul 12, 2025

There’s a moment in every woman’s business journey when the familiar rhythm stops...

The strategy that once worked begins to sputter.

The vision still glows—but the path feels murky.

If you’ve ever...

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When the Numbers Don’t Add Up: A Coaching Call for Therapists Drowning in Overhead coaching for therapists high overhead costs shared office space therapy practice tips therapy spaces May 22, 2025

Let’s have a real conversation, therapist to therapist.

We became helpers, not real estate moguls. But somehow, for so many of us, a huge portion of our monthly revenue is going straight into office ...

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