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54. Parentified, Terrified & Broke: How Your Childhood Money Trauma Is Still Running Your Life

54. Parentified, Terrified & Broke: How Your Childhood Money Trauma Is Still Running Your Life

Update: 2025-05-14
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In this gut-punch of an episode, Chelsea rips open the veil between trauma and your money story, showing how your nervous system's grip might be strangling your financial freedom.

  • The brutal reality that seeking help isn't weakness—it's fucking courage in its purest form
  • How your constricted nervous system is like a rubber band pulled to breaking point, stealing your capacity for life's demands
  • The suffocating weight of parentification—when you were forced to be the adult long before you had the emotional tools
  • Why your childhood money wounds are bleeding into your adult financial decisions, keeping you trapped in scarcity
  • Your body remembers every time you had to be the responsible one while adults around you collapsed
  • Financial stress triggers the same fight/flight/freeze response as actual physical danger
  • The visceral pattern of overgiving, overworking, and undercharging stems directly from your trauma response
  • Healing happens in your tissues, not just your thoughts—your body must feel safe to release old patterns


Chelsea is offering three deeply intimate 1:1 sessions at an accessible rate for those ready to excavate the root causes of their financial struggles. This isn't surface-level coaching—it's a guided journey into the trenches of your money wounds to build resilience from the ground up.

📆 ⁠Book your Pattern Interrupt Sessions here⁠

If your gut clenched while listening to this episode, that's your body recognizing truth. Honor that reaction by taking one small step toward healing today. Grab ⁠Chelsea's limited 1:1⁠ slots to begin untangling your nervous system from your financial reality.

The path to thriving demands facing what hurts. Chelsea creates a container where that facing becomes your liberation, not another trauma.

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54. Parentified, Terrified & Broke: How Your Childhood Money Trauma Is Still Running Your Life

54. Parentified, Terrified & Broke: How Your Childhood Money Trauma Is Still Running Your Life

Chelsea Bartell