Has your self worth been tied to your career, and security to money?

A question not typically asked or understood due to the vulnerability of it.

I wouldn't of questioned it until I started digging deep and realizing some of mine was...

Here’s some things I learned about wealth, and my career status when I decided to take a step away from my professional titles and being a “successful corporate woman”;

I’ve been in Finance for 19 years. I grew up in the corporate world and I very much adopted the mentality of excelling, performance, pushing myself and exceeding. I created this linear illusion of success that validated my power and worth. As long as I was climbing the corporate ladder and excelling I felt worthy. As long as I had money in my bank and investments with some zero’s behind it I felt like I was somebody. As long as I had initials behind my name representing different financial designations, and as long as I had a position of power I was strong and confident. 

I tied a lot of my worth and who I was to my career, it became my identity. The money in my accounts was a form of security for me, albeit false, because no matter how much I had I never felt secure and was always operating in lack. I inadvertently built my worth and my security outside of myself, and it was conditional on how much I achieved.

It took intentional healing and slowing down to confront this truth. It wasn’t pretty, I chose to deconstruct who I built myself to be. I let go of titles and who others thought I was, along with beliefs and behaviours that were no longer serving me. This is part of being human and living a life in alignment. When we start to ask the hard questions, we begin to heal and we start to demand better for our life. We stop making excuses, and begin to cultivate our own inner richness and power, building a life from the inside out, not outside in. We no longer try to fit in someone else’s definition of who they think we are and give ourselves permission to let go, and evolve into our next version of self. 

“Measuring wealth by money alone is spiritually empty. To obtain wealth of lasting kind, the kind that gives your life value, meaning and sustenance, base your daily existence on your spirit and seek more out of life.” ~ Deepak Chopra, MD

Do you want to feel more empowered and knowledgeable with your finances, as well as learn to live an abundant life aligned to your inner richness and not reliant on your bank account? Have you resonated with my words? 

Contact me to find out what that could look like for you.

We all need teammates, and I’d like to be yours.