The Space To Pause

The Space To Pause

If you've hit a ceiling you can't quite name, or money still doesn't feel safe no matter how much work you've done, you're in the right place.

This is where I share my thoughts on money trauma, nervous system patterns, and what safe enough, good enough, and worthy enough actually look like in real life, written for the healthcare professionals and therapists who are brilliant at helping others and still quietly stuck in their own relationship with money.

You're not behind, you're not broken, and you're in exactly the right place here with me.

By Sonia Skewes, Advanced Relational Integrative Practitioner.

Money Trauma

Explore ways healthcare workers disconnect from finances, why the body responds this way, and how gentle therapeutic support can help restore self-tr…Read more
You understand trauma. You support others with regulation and self-worth every day. So why does naming your own fee make your chest tighten? This is …Read more
You already know more than most people about how trauma works. So why does opening your banking app still make your chest tighten? This is for the he…Read more
You might finish a long day supporting clients, patients, families, or colleagues, then feel a familiar tightening when it is time to send an invoic…Read more
There is a moment, just before you talk about payment, when your body tells the truth before your words do. Your chest tightens, your jaw sets, a…Read more
And What That's Really About You sit down to send the invoice, or open the one that's landed in your inbox, and your body changes before your mind …Read more
You can be good at your work, trusted by your clients, the person everyone relies on, and still feel your chest tighten when you open your banking a…Read more
You can discuss complex case notes, hold space for other people's grief, make sound clinical decisions under pressure, and still feel your chest tigh…Read more

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