Healing Money Wounds: How the Mother Wound Shapes Self-Worth, Safety, and Abundance

How your relationship with your mother shapes your relationship with money, and how healing that root can change everything. In this episode, Julienne Irons and Michelle Atlas explore money attachment styles, self-worth, and what it really means to receive. Rather than focusing on budgeting or surface-level money tips, this episode explores how early attachment with our mother shapes our sense of worth, safety, permission to receive, and capacity to enjoy abundance. Michelle introduces the concept of money attachment styles and explains how insecure attachment can show up as overspending, under-earning, shame, avoidance, or chronic anxiety around money. Together, Julienne and Michelle explore: How unmet maternal needs can become money blocks later in life Why grief and shame often live underneath financial patterns What it means to “become your own mother” around money How self-compassion and self-forgiveness open the door to receiving The Queen archetype and reclaiming personal authority and sovereignty Practical, embodied ways to shift from insecure to secure money attachment This conversation is not about blaming mothers. It’s about understanding how early experiences shape what feels safe, possible, and allowed — and how healing those roots can fundamentally change our relationship with money. This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, confused, or emotionally charged around money and wants to heal their relationship with abundance from the inside out. ⏱ Episode Timestamps 00:00 Introduction: The Mother Wound and Money 02:23 Meeting Michelle Atlas and the Money–Mother Connection 15:32 Understanding Money Attachment Styles 21:42 Grief, Shame, and the Nervous System Around Money 26:24 Self-Compassion and Overspending 26:44 Money Archetypes and Attachment Style Quizzes 27:24 Breakthroughs Through Self-Forgiveness 31:46 Cultivating a Secure Money Attachment 34:31 The Queen Archetype and Personal Authority 39:27 Healing the Mother Wound to Heal Money 43:17 Visioning, Manifestation, and Receiving 50:02 Closing Reflections and What’s Next 🔔 What’s Next This episode is part of our ongoing Mother Wound arc. In the next and final episode, we close the arc through the energetic lens with Leah Sonaria, exploring healing the Mother Wound through ritual, sacred rage, and the energy of Kali Ma. If this episode resonated, please like, share, and subscribe so we can keep these conversations going. Presented by 3 of Cups Healing. 🤳🏽 Connect with The Hanged Woman: Instagram: @3ofCupsHealing Website: 3ofcupshealing.com ✨ Find out more about the 3 of Cups Heart-Centered Marketing  here 👉🏽: https://www.3ofcupshealing.com/ 🙌🏽 Connect with Michelle Atlas here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelleatlascoaching Instagram: MichelleAtlasCoaching Take Michelle’s Free Money Attachment Styles quiz:  https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/68deac846f8a60001590a48f  Register for Michelle’s Money and the Mother Six-Week Course:  https://michelleatlas.com/money-and-the-mother/