Sacred Prosperity
Recently, I had a conversation with a healer who insisted that spiritual work and financial abundance are mutually exclusive—that you simply can't have both. As I listened, I could feel my body physically recoil from this statement. It wasn't just disagreement; it was a visceral rejection of a narrative that has harmed too many healers, coaches, and creatives.
This idea—that pursuing wealth somehow compromises your spiritual authenticity—isn't just outdated.
It's fundamentally wrong.
The Many Origins of Scarcity Wounding
The idea that poverty is somehow more spiritual isn't just outdated—it's a wound transmitted through creative and spiritual lineages across generations.
Consider ancient monastic traditions where spiritual practitioners renounced worldly possessions. What's rarely discussed? These monastics were supported by their communities. They didn't struggle with survival—their basic needs were met so they could focus on spiritual development.
Then there's the revered "starving artist" archetype—the romanticized lineage of creators who struggled financially in life, making poverty a twisted badge of honor for creative people. Yet historically, many renowned artists had patrons who supported their lives and work, allowing them to focus on creation without financial struggle.
Creative and spiritual women might appear to have different lineages, but the underlying narratives converge in the unconscious message: your value is in allegiance to scarcity, not in your prosperity.
Perhaps most insidious is the historical reality that women in the West have only recently gained financial agency. For centuries, we couldn't own property, control our earnings, or build wealth in our own names. The belief that spiritual or creative women shouldn't seek wealth isn't just religious conditioning—it's gendered conditioning designed to limit our economic power.
These narratives don't just live in history books—they operate in our collective subconscious, silently influencing decisions we don't even realize we're making about our worth and our right to prosperity.
The Modern Spiritual Dilemma
For women who are on a spiritual path to coach, create, or offer healing services, this conflict manifests in myriad limiting ways:
Chronically undercharging for services because asking for more feels selfish or "unspiritual"
Hesitating to scale your business because growth somehow seems at odds with deeper values
Experiencing shame when financial success comes, as if you've betrayed your principles
Hiding your financial ambitions in spiritual communities that subtly (or not so subtly) judge your desire for abundance
If you've experienced any of these tensions, you're not alone. I've grappled with these questions throughout my journey as a woman in business. Many of us struggle with this conflict, often unaware of how deeply these beliefs can sabotage our success.
Yogic Truth: Prosperity Is Part of the Assignment
My spiritual tradition is yoga, and what many don't realize is that ancient yogic wisdom directly addressed this false dichotomy thousands of years ago. The yogic tradition outlines four aims of life that form a complete framework for balanced living as a householder—someone living in the world, raising children, working, and operating among "muggles":
Dharma - Fulfilling one's purpose and right livelihood
Artha - Creating prosperity and material well-being through right livelihood
Kama - Experiencing pleasure, enjoyment, and creative expression
Moksha - Seeking spiritual liberation and self-realization
Notice that artha—the pursuit of material prosperity—is explicitly recognized as one of the four essential pillars of a spiritually fulfilled life. Far from contradicting spiritual growth, prosperity is considered necessary a valid pursuit and creates fertile ground for deeper practice.
These four aims weren't meant to be pursued in isolation but as an integrated whole. The ancient yogis understood what many modern spiritual practitioners have forgotten: material security creates the foundation upon which spiritual growth can flourish. Financial well-being ensures that you can continue living your purpose and doing your important work in the world.
Money is Not a Moral Issue
Money itself carries no inherent moral quality. It is simply energy—a means of reciprocity, value, and exchange. The spiritual dimension emerges not from money itself but from our relationship with it:
How we earn it (with integrity or exploitation)
How we relate to it (with gratitude or grasping)
How we share it (with generosity or hoarding)
How we spend it (with mindfulness or compulsion)
When we clear away the cultural conditioning that makes money "bad" or "good," we can approach money as neutral energy that responds to our intentions, consciousness, and actions.
Financial Well-Being Is Spiritual Power
As women navigating today's complex world, financial resources are necessary not just for survival but for creating the time, space, and freedom to deepen our spiritual practices:
Financial stability creates the breathing room to meditate, practice yoga, and care for your well-being
Economic security reduces stress that makes us sick, saps our energy, and blocks spiritual awareness
Prosperity allows you to support causes aligned with your values powerfully
Abundance enables greater generosity and impact to contribute to the world you want to live in
The world we live in today requires us more than ever to connect these two aspects of life. As women building businesses, supporting families, and pursuing our spiritual paths, we must have financial resources to survive and thrive.
The Spiritual Responsibility of Abundance
When you unapologetically embrace financial abundance, you become a powerful agent of positive change. By demonstrating that conscious wealth creation is possible while maintaining spiritual principles, you open an integrated path for yourself and others.
It behooves us as spiritual women to claim financial abundance as part of our work—not to push money away or become obsessed with the pursuit of wealth. Instead, we can live well, ground ourselves financially, and show other women that financial abundance is entirely possible while holding spiritual ideals.
Claiming financial abundance as compatible with spiritual growth isn't selfish—it's responsible stewardship of our energy and gifts.
You can be spiritual and prosperous.
These states aren't just compatible—they're complementary.
By releasing outdated narratives and healing trauma around spirituality and money being mutually exclusive, we open to a more integrated experience of abundance on all levels—material, emotional, relational, and spiritual.
The world doesn't need more spiritual seekers living in scarcity. The world actually needs more conscious, prosperous women who can model balanced abundance while creating positive change through their resources, wisdom, and compassion.
I want that for you, for our world.
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