Somatics, Safety, and Wealth
How our nervous system states influence anxiety, ease, and possibility with money
Money is not just a mental construct.
It’s an embodied experience: held in feeling and our nervous system responses. It’s something we experience viscerally, shaped by safety, memory, and meaning in our bodies.
Most conversations about wealth focus on mindset: what you believe, what you affirm, what you tell yourself about abundance. And while mindset work can be supportive, it often overlooks something essential. If your nervous system does not feel safe to receive, hold, or grow wealth, no amount of positive thinking will fully land.
Your nervous system is the lens through which you perceive money.
When your body feels safe, money can feel resourced, fluid, and workable even when circumstances aren’t perfect. When your body is in threat, the same financial reality can feel overwhelming, scarce, or shame-laden. Nothing externally has changed. The lens has, in accordance with your nervous system state.
In this work, we explore how different nervous system states shape your relationship with money from the openness and trust that comes with safety, to the hustling and urgency of sympathetic activation, to the shutdown, avoidance, or shame that can arise in a freeze. We look gently at how these patterns show up in real life: overworking, undercharging, avoiding your bank account, feeling defensive around finances, or telling yourself “I’m broke” as if it were an objective truth.
Through a somatic lens, money becomes less about fixing yourself and more about understanding what your body has learned about safety, capacity, and support.
When you begin to recognize that your perception of money is shaped by your nervous system and that perception is not always accurate, you feel more empowered. You gain agency and choice. You gain the ability to respond in ways that are more aligned with your values, rather than driven by fear, collapse, or urgency.
This is an invitation to meet money through your body, and to begin building wealth from a place of greater safety, presence, and internal support.
What You’ll Learn in This Workshop
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You’ll learn how the different nervous system responses influence the way you relate to money including receiving, spending, charging, saving, and imagining what’s possible for you. This helps you recognize that many “money problems” are actually nervous system patterns.
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We’ll explore why affirmations and positive thinking can fall flat when your body is in threat, and how incongruence between your thoughts and your felt experience can quietly block your capacity to hold wealth even when you’re doing “all the right things.”
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You’ll begin to understand how to shift your relationship with money by increasing nervous system safety, so you can respond to finances with more clarity, resourcefulness, and self-trust rather than urgency, shutdown, or shame.
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Using real-life examples, you’ll see how the same financial circumstances can feel radically different depending on your nervous system state and how this awareness opens the door to more aligned, empowered choices.
About Halie Devlin
Halie Devlin is a somatic practitioner, educator, and guide who supports individuals in reconnecting with their bodies and nervous systems in safe, sustainable ways.
She has been working with people in the context of healing for almost a decade. With a background rooted in trauma-integrated somatic work, Halie blends nervous system education, embodiment practices, and compassionate awareness to help people move out of survival mode and into a more regulated, resourced state.
Her work emphasizes meeting your body where it is without pressure, judgment, or bypassing.
Halie is the creator of the Somatic Restoration program and Embodied Business Consulting program. She shares grounded, accessible teachings through her client work and online presence. Her approach is gentle, deeply respectful of the body’s wisdom, and focused on long-term sustainable healing rather than quick fixes.
