Money Mindset Insights on Tax Day + Healthy Easter Menu Ideas

Happy Tax Day! Hopefully you have tax filing behind you for another year. It’s not a favorite task in our household . We just choose a day, plow through TurboTax, and get it done.

A few things converged for me recently on the topic of money . I had a very meaningful session with a PSYCH-K® client recently. We uncovered some deep subconscious beliefs and fears around money. Linking money to the ability to enjoy life. Not healthy, but very common in the world we live in.

This client and I have a lot in common. We both wanted to get out of our childhood homes and be independent as quickly as possible (for different reasons). We were both very smart and knew education and a good job was a solid plan to get out on our own ASAP.

And we did it. Got a good education, a good job, a good, comfortable standard of living by all accounts. We were driven all of our lives, always striving for more, and often feeling more money was the key to finally feeling safe and finally able to be happy.

During the same week as this deep client session, I learned of a former colleague from my chemical industry days who took his own life over job and money strife. Very sad, tragic, and hard to process for all who knew him. He was so smart, capable, driven, and successful by all outward appearances. As I told Simon when we heard the news (Simon worked with him and knew him well), “You just never know what is going on with people.”

Something in the subconscious reptilian part of the brain loves to throw us into fight-or-flight mode over just about anything . It tells many of us that your efforts aren’t good enough. You aren’t good enough. There is no time to stop and relax. You have to work harder, earn more, you’re not safe yet.

Do you have this voice? This drive? In today’s mindset insights, I go a little deeper with how to release some of this money anxiety and create a healthier, more balanced mindset about money.

This Week’s Shot of MINDSET

During this same convergence of events recently, I was reading a wonderful book called Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan. He immersed himself in Indigenous cultures in Mexico and the United States as he learned his unique methods of healing with plants. My calling in life is also healing with plants, hence why I loved this book so much.

He tells many stories in the book about how Indigenous tribes see many things about life from a very different viewpoint than Western industrialized cultures. Money is no exception. As I was working with my client to uncouple beliefs linking money and happiness, and heard the news of a colleague taking his life in his early 50s, I was thinking of these Indigenous stories.

The author tells of shamans and tribes who have very little financially. Dirt huts, tattered clothes, yet… they are some of the happiest, most spiritually fulfilled people he had ever met. This quote from the book highlights these themes I have been seeing and feeling lately:

We have all the luxuries of food, shelter, medical care, and recreation, and we can receive every conceivable form of education and therapy. But amid this affluence, no one confronts the appalling, dangerous poverty of spirit. A leading cause of middle-class teenage death in the United States is suicide. Adults are not as direct as children – we choose more complicated forms of suicide. Cancer, heart disease, and drug addiction are minor concerns compared to the problem of spiritual illness. This is all the more true since these symptoms, and most others, are usually disguised forms of spiritual pain.

Technological advances in medicine have not reduced human suffering. On the contrary, wealth and technology have impoverished our spiritual life. We desperately, urgently, need medicine for the spirit, and this kind of medicine does not depend on anything money can buy, as my first encounter with the Huichol people taught me.

This week’s newsletter may feel a bit heavy. I am hoping to inspire you to take a look at your own beliefs and what drives you. See if there are any positive adjustments in mindset, beliefs, and actions you could consider.

In PSYCH-K® we have what we call the 7 Categories of Change and Prosperity is one of those. We have sample Goal Statements or new, positive, supportive beliefs to work with at the subconscious level. This one feels very important related to these topics this week:

My worth as a person and my financial worth are two separate measures.

Self-worth, love, joy, happiness, and peace can all be experienced regardless of your money situation. If it calls to you, work with these beliefs. Give yourself a break from stress, worry, and anxiety about money. Enjoy experiences, connection to loved ones, and find moments of joy every day.

I have been writing in a Joy Journal almost every day this year. As I record what brings me Joy each day, I can see that the majority of the experiences have very little to do with money. Nature, animals, people I love, experiences, travel, music. There is so much joy to be experienced in life if we can slow down, savor, and enrich our spirits.

This Week’s Shot of HEALTH

My family always had a big ham dinner for our Easter family get together. Simon’s family in the UK did more of a roast turkey or chicken kind of meal. Now we don’t really have a big Easter celebration and we don’t eat meat. Yet, we still love any occasion to make a big healthy plant based meal. You may celebrate Easter or Passover or just enjoy healthy Spring meal ideas.

These Healthy Easter Menu ideas from Forks Over Knives include appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, sides, desserts, and a link to a whole section of Chocolate Treats to enjoy instead of waxy crappy candy. Enjoy some healthy recipe inspiration to add to your traditional meal or create a whole spread of health promoting plant based foods. I plan to make this gorgeous focaccia with simple plant ingredients that looks like a piece of art.

Wrap up treats like the brownies or carrot cake individually in parchment or wax paper, add some festive ribbons or decorations, and fill Easter baskets with healthy treats. Add in stickers, pencils, little toys. We did this for our niece and nephew who visited from England last Easter and they loved it. They did an Easter egg hunt for little fun-filled colored eggs instead of real eggs that have a lot of proven health risks.

Enjoy your April celebrations and revel in the currencies of connection, happiness, love, and joy

If you are interested in using the power of the mind to uplevel your life, I share mindset expertise every week, along with fun & insightful stories from my own life path from 80s hair band superfan to chemical engineer to health & mindset coach (what a journey!).

You will also see plenty of health promoting tips and recipes because I am blown away by the power of intermittent fasting + a healthy diet to prevent & reverse just about any health concern Mindset plays a big part in health and healing too, the power of the Mind Body connection is pretty mind blowing.