SUMMARY
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Sharmeen Bhanji-Abeysinghe is a Spiritual Somatic Movement Mentor. She speaks of movement as medicine and she’s on a mission to eradicate childhood trauma due to poverty.

Today, Sharmeen joins the show to share lessons she learned from her own experiences with childhood financial trauma, why we’ve become so disassociated with our own bodies and initial steps we can take to heal our bodies and minds from financial trauma.

TAKEAWAYS
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01:09 – Jonathan takes a moment to read a five-star review and encourages listeners to leave their own reviews
01:47 – Jonathan introduces today’s guest, Sharmeen Bhanji-Abeysinghel, who joins the show to share her early memories of childhood trauma created by poverty
11:40 – Working through financial trauma through energetics
17:27 – How we got so disassociated with our own bodies
20:12 – The first step to healing our bodies
22:50 – Common examples of financial childhood trauma
25:06 – Overcoming a lack of self-worth through movement
31:28 – Imprinting an abundance mindset into our bodies as well as our minds
33:38 – One piece of financial relationship advice to focus on and one thing to absolutely ignore
36:52 – The last thing Sharmeen changed her mind about and one thing she would like others to know about her

QUOTES
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“Basically what I’ve learned is the energy behind what money actually is. And, when we move it from this physical, ‘I can’t have’ paper substance to the understanding that it is energy, then it changes the perspective on how much we can have. And so, for me, my relationship with money has actually blossomed and grown and become this delicious relationship that I’m fully in love with through healing, and through movement, and through energetics.” (09:46) (Sharmeen)

“It is really about connecting with the sensations in the body. And my belief through my years of research and even my own experience is that the subconscious mind, or subconscious programming - the things that are sticky and still holding us in those fear states or any of those high emotional states - lives in your body and communicates with us through the body’s sensations.” (15:42) (Sharmeen)

“Either way, the impact on the psyche and the way the brain is actually formed - and it’s not what the brain thinks, but how it’s formed - it’s the structural beingness of the brain that changes when we experience trauma.” (23:34) (Sharmeen)

“We hear so much about ‘money mindset, money mindset, money mindset.’ It’s drilled into us that we have to have this money mindset and do affirmations and meditations and all these things...” (31:28) (Sharmeen)

ABOUT MINDFUL MONEY
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Do you struggle with money? You’re not alone.
Money is a means, not an end. It’s a necessity of life for sure, but more money does not always guarantee a “good life”. Money enables many aspects of modern life, but as a dominant consideration it becomes destructive.
The paradox is that more time and energy spent on personal finance does NOT create better outcomes. Unlike many other parts of life, we can’t create better outcomes by being smarter, spending more time, or putting in more effort.
Join Mindful Money author and experienced 40-year investor Jonathan DeYoe as he shares stories from artists, authors, entrepreneurs, and other advisors about how they mindfully minimize their need to think about money and get more out of life.
If you aren’t happy with your finances, feel like money takes more time that it should, or want to place your financial decisions into the broader context of your life, this show is for you.
Each episode will draw the line between the “enough” activities that the academics tell us are additive to family outcomes, and those “little bit more” efforts that take time and sap energy, but do NOT improve outcomes.

GUEST RESOURCES
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Sharmeen’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharmeenaligned
Sharmeen’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_aligned_lifes/
The Flourishing Well Website: https://www.theflourishingwell.com/movement-medicine-practitioner
My Aligned Life: https://www.myalignedlife.ca/
The Flourishing Well Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theflourishingwell_charity_/
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MINDFUL MONEY RESOURCES
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Jonathan’s Book – https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Money-Practices-Financial-Increasing/dp/1608684369
Website - https://mindful.money/
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