Grief & Gratitude Can Coexist: Healing Your Nervous System to Receive Abundance

In this deeply personal solo episode of Worthy & Abundant, I’m sharing what I’ve been navigating behind the scenes — from illness and inner work to healing my nervous system and practicing what I teach.

We talk about:

• Why nervous system regulation is the foundation for receiving abundance
• How breathwork, EFT tapping, meditation, and movement help release stored trauma
• The truth about healing the body (because the body keeps the score)
• Why grief and gratitude can coexist
• How your beliefs shape your reality
• Rewriting subconscious stories around money, success, and worth
• Why joy is the strategy for building a life and business you love

If you desire more abundance, deeper self-worth, financial expansion, or alignment in your business — healing is not optional. You must feel safe to receive.

Expansion feels uncomfortable until your nervous system learns that growth is safe.

In this episode, I also share insights on:

• ADHD and purpose-driven work
• Emotional eating and body love
• Faith, mindset, and spiritual alignment
• Choosing joy now instead of waiting for “someday”

You are worthy of a life you love.
Abundance is your birthright.
And healing is remembering who you truly are.

🎧 Listen in and let this be your permission slip to regulate, release, and receive.

Transcript

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Hey guys, good morning and welcome back to Worthy and Abundant. So this morning I'm finally recording a solo episode. I have not recorded a solo episode in almost two months, mostly because I have been doing some serious inner work and practicing what I teach and preach. I've been, navigating something personal for quite a while and I'm getting support with that.

Plus, I was sick for. Several weeks. Um, thank God, , bar Hashem. I'm better. So when I say I've been practicing what I teach and preach, I mean, I've really, truly been giving myself grace and love and, re-parenting myself in a way. , Just that self-discovery journey, continuing, learning more about.

A DHD and just learning more about me and my authentic self and what my needs are and healing and releasing things in my body. Traumas and different things because the body [00:01:00] is a messenger and the body keeps the score. There's a book called that, and it's true. And so I've been releasing things in my body through breath work and different modalities.

And I've also been attending services when I am not sick. And I saw a movie this past weekend that I wanna share about. It was based on a true story about a Christian singer from the band Mercy Me. It was good. My biggest takeaway from this movie was that grief and gratitude can.

Live together, can coexist, basically grief and gratitude can coexist. And I always talk about gratitude. I've been talking about gratitude. I've been practicing gratitude for over a decade. There's truly always something to be grateful for and I just. Can't say enough about shifting [00:02:00] mindsets with gratitude. I was talking to a guy when I was leaving services the other day and he was talking about some different things and he's alone and, you know, he was saying how horrible it is to be alone. Well, I mean, he's, he's, he's very financially secure.

Um. And he had a beautiful marriage for many, many, many years. He's healthy. I mean, there's so many blessings that he has. And, so I got him to shift his thinking a little bit, um, in a short conversation around gratitude because, you know, just because you're currently single doesn't mean next week you're not gonna meet somebody or that this is forever, right?

It's, everything's temporary, but, yeah, that movie was, was a powerful, it was a great movie. So it's called, I Can Only Imagine Two. I did not see the first. The first movie, I can only imagine, but I watched the trailer and I learned about it, and that was enough. I didn't need to see the first movie [00:03:00] and basically, there's not that many great movies out there it seems like anymore.

So I just really wanted to see a movie and my girlfriend wanted to see movies. So together we saw a great movie. And, we went to Cinema Bistro in Sarasota and we ate, and there's recliners and it was really fun. I remember going there with my son. It was super fun. Anyway, so I also booked my trip to Sedona.

That was a long time coming. I, it was supposed to go seven years ago. With my partner at the time, and the relationship ended a month before our trip, and that was such a blessing because he wasn't the one. And when I go to Sedona, I want it to be. So special. I'm so excited. I had two other trips that were actually canceled.

One was because it was COVID and the other one, I was gonna host a retreat there, and that's a whole story anyway. But the point is, I am booked. I booked my trip to Sedona. I'm super excited. It's aligned because my rabbi, here's wife's [00:04:00] brother, runs the Haah Sedona. And it turns out I will be there for Shabbat, and it turns out I'm one mile away from.

The, Habad of Sedona. So I am, I know this is just gonna be a magical trip, and I'm so incredibly excited about it and grateful to God for guiding me, leading me, supporting me, and that is truly how I live today, and I hope you, you know you are also guided, supported, and loved because what you believe to be true is what will be your reality.

If you believe in a higher power and you believe there's a God, then God will be in your life. But if you don't believe, then you will live in a godless world, and that's what Rabbi David Aaron says in his book, seeing God. It's a book on Kabbalah, and I believe this. You know what we believe comes true and that's why we have to, we have to protect our thoughts.

We have to guard our thoughts because thoughts are powerful and thoughts become things and [00:05:00] this is just so powerful and true. And if you are programmed at a young age, you can change them. Mastering our thinking is what helps create. Our best lives, and it's not just that we have to release things from the body.

So tomorrow is my fifth class for Worthy the Remembering Method, and we're talking about healing. I'm actually gonna bring in a breath work expert at the end. Because healing, is a lot around, regulating your nervous system. And I really think this is the ticket, you know, regulating your nervous system will change your entire life and allow you to receive, allow you to.

Create what you desire. You know, knowing that you are safe, you are safe to receive money, you are safe to grow your business. You are safe to show up in the world. So [00:06:00] it's very powerful. And like I said, I have been practicing some breath work lately and, and I always was resistant to breath work. I don't know why, but isn't that funny?

But we resist versus um. I mean, I do EFT tapping. I haven't done it a lot lately, but I was using EFTA lot. I took a couple classes to become certified in EFT, and I love supporting my clients with EFT and then breathing. And these are all things that don't even cost money if you do it for yourself, meditation different ways, including moving your body.

When I'm exercise, I tell you, I, I cry sometimes and I think it's because I'm releasing. I'm moving the energy. It's so interesting. Everything's energy. One of my favorite podcasts is Kathy Heller. Used to be called Don't Quit Your Day Job, and then she changed it to the Kathy Heller show, [00:07:00] and then she changed it to abundant of her app.

Which is the book she wrote, which I highly recommend Abundant Ever After by Kathy Heller, and then her podcast is called Now. It's called Everything Is Energy because it's true and it's an amazing podcast. So I highly recommend you check out. Everything is Energy by Kathy Heller podcast. It's excellent and I've learned a lot from her.

She's amazing. She studied in Jerusalem. She studied with David, rabbi David Aaron actually, and I have two of his books and Liz Light and, seeing God, and I'm going to get all of his books eventually. And I just wanna say that, he is so humble. He's so amazing. Like he's a Facebook friend of mine. He's amazing.

Anyway, I really just wanted to come on this morning. I was doing my morning routine, my prayers, my gratitude. As I said, I've been practicing gratitude for over a decade, probably [00:08:00] 15 years. Let me think now. Yes. 14 years, and it just helps reframe everything. But it's not, it's not, what's the word? That positivity thing where like you're, you're ignoring the negative stuff.

It's just a way to reframe in the mind. And in the movie that I told you about, I can only imagine too, there's a really powerful moment in that movie where this guy thinks his life is so hard. And difficult. And he, and then the other guy said, I'm not going to share the whole movie, but I just wanna say that like the big piece that I took away and loved was that grief and gratitude can coexist.

And that's what I'm currently navigating. As I said in the beginning of the podcast, I have been navigating something very personal , but I'm choosing joy every day because every day is a gift from God. Thank you, [00:09:00] God, for a new day. And. Tomorrow's not promised for anyone. And it, it sounds kind of negative, but it's so incredibly true.

I had a doctor appointment, , a week ago, and she's young and attractive and we were talking about food and nutrition and different things, and I told her, you know, some different things around, I, I just said this in my other podcast interview with the emotional eating expert, Amber. That basically like we eat what we want in moderation.

We, we move our bodies and we basically, the weight will fall off if you're not overeating, if you're not binge eating, if you're not, you know, obsessed. 'cause the body like holds on to stuff. Like if you just regulate your nervous system and learn to love yourself and just eat. Because you love yourself.

You're not going to pack on this weight you're going to release, it's, it's a natural way to be and she agreed anyway, like loving [00:10:00] your body, thank you body for what you do. Instead of criticizing our bodies. We are always criticizing our bodies, and I'm getting off on a tangent, but like learn to love the reflection in the mirror.

Learn to love yourself. So this is my big message on the planet because I've been so hard on myself for so, so many years. But anyway, I digress. But back to what I was saying, um, about, what was I saying? I lost my train of thought. Now, um, we're talking about emotional eating and then it was back to, let's think oh, at the doctor appointment, so I said to her. Tomorrow's not promised. She agreed. I told her a story about someone I was talking to, and he said he woke up and his wife passed away in his, in her sleep, and she was dead in the bed. And he, she says, oh yeah, I know. My friend's wife just died, age 30. I said, what?

What happened? Cancer? It spread [00:11:00] quickly. She was gone two months before she was running a marathon. 30 years old running a marathon. Now she's dead. Tomorrow is not promised, my friends. This is not a cynical thing. This is a gratitude thing. This is a powerful message to you to cherish your life.

Cherish yourself. Learn to love yourself. Learn to love God. Learn to. Serve at the highest capacity. I ask God to use me as a vessel for good every single day, and I'm here to help others. I'm here to help the world and love myself, and love others, and that's really my message to you right now is. And I have some great interviews coming up.

Really, really good ones. I'm so excited. Actually, I have, the vegan rabbi. I am so excited to interview him later this month. And I [00:12:00] have, Hillary, I forgot her name. She was actually on Kathy Hill's. Podcast, she's, , a money girl and she's gonna help us with our money mindset.

And then I have someone else. And I'm so excited because I love this work and it comes naturally to me and it's what I love and it's what I'm good at. And I'm helping people, and I'm helping the world and this podcast has been such a blessing and such a gift to myself and others, and it truly is a vessel.

For good. And if you are even thinking of doing a podcast, I would love to support you. I am. Opening up a couple spaces to support people in creating a podcast and you know, we can jump on a call. I have a link in the show notes. You can always book a call and just see if it's a fit. See if you like me and wanna work with me Anyway, how about beautiful rest of your day?

Like I said, tomorrow is week five of Worthy the [00:13:00] Remembering Method, and I will be teaching this again in April. And if you want, you can join the wait list for that. The price is 8 88 for six weeks. It's life changing. We go from what do you desire? Learning to become open to receiving and realigning with your authentic self, your true self.

Trusting yourself, trusting God, and then healing, and then the final week, which is next week, for you are worthy. You are worthy of a life you love. You are, there's so many people living lives. They love doing their passion and purpose work, making money. And just happy. And that is what we all strive for.

It's not this next thing that's gonna make me happy. We choose happy now. And guess what happens? The money follows Joy is the strategy. There's a girl, um, [00:14:00] who just wrote a book, I think it's called Joy, is the Strategy. That's her new book. And the reality is there's so many distinctions between like.

Discipline and all these different things like achieving. Yeah, of course. If someone hands you a pile of money versus you earned it, what feels maybe better? Well earning it does, but you don't have to earn it by do being miserable. You can earn it by enjoying what you're doing. Do you know what I mean?

It's like my dad. I watched my dad. Do a job. He didn't like his whole life. He was a pharmacist and he never took a single pill. He didn't believe in that. But I mean, he provided for his family. He, you know, but the reality is I don't think he enjoyed what he did every day. I know he didn't. And I just really am passionate about, and then I was, uh, let me just say I was, you know, studying, like I [00:15:00] said, my A DHD and um.

One of the girls in this group session I was in, she said, um, she thinks that women, that people with a DHD even more so have to do something they love, have to do their purpose work if they, you know. And I was like, wow. Yeah, absolutely. Um, but anyway, I hope you guys have an amazing day. Happy, happy March.

Happy Tuesday, March 3rd. Three. Three. And happy perim. It's Perim right now and it's all about joy.

And, I hope you appreciate this episode. I know I talked a lot about myself, but I, I gave you some powerful nuggets. Everything is energy. Go listen to Kathy Heller's podcast. I have amazing interviews coming for you, and have a beautiful rest of your day and check out my show notes.

There's links for everything there. And, um. Take good care of you and learn to love yourself. You are worthy and [00:16:00] abundance is your birthright. Take care everybody. Thanks for listening. Okay.