How Your Nervous System Impacts Financial Security and Business Success by Hedi Sramko

When it comes to building wealth and financial security, most people focus on strategy, marketing, and hard work. But what if I told you that your body—specifically, your nervous system and your fundamental beliefs about money—play a critical role in your financial outcomes?

These deeper, often overlooked factors could be the key to unlocking your ability to manifest what you truly desire, not only in your business and finances but in your personal life too.

What Does Your Nervous System Have to Do With Wealth?

When we first get serious about our financial security, we often come across mindset work. It's no secret that our ingrained beliefs about money greatly impact how we approach financial matters—whether it’s making enough (or more than enough!) or deciding to manage and grow our wealth.

Through my own journey with money, I realised there’s more beyond mindset work when it comes to rewiring our beliefs. Addressing mindset was only one side of the coin. To fully shift toward an abundant mindset, I had to dig deeper into my physiology.

I often see people repeating money patterns inherited from their parents. Some are great at making money, but it flows through their fingers as soon as they get it. Others, like me, grew up thinking we had "just enough," while outsiders perceived us as rich. I never understood why but I could certainly track this pattern in my adult life. Looking glam from the outside, yet my lived experience wasn't so lavish...

Or maybe you struggle to bring money in at all—this might mean you have material wealth conflated with personal worth. You get my drift.

What we learn early on sticks with us until we consciously decide to tackle our money story head on. That moment is typically some kind of major life crises or shift when we have to put our big girl panties on and get responsible about providing for and looking after ourselves like becoming parents, changing careers, setting up a business or becoming a single parent.

But Where Does the Nervous System Come In?

I like to think of the nervous system—specifically the autonomic branch, which controls bodily functions like heart rate and digestion—as the blueprint for our emotional and mental landscape. The flexibility of our nervous system is mirrored in our relationships, thoughts, and feelings.

For example, if you’re stuck in a loop of negative thoughts, it’s not just your mind at play. Your nervous system could be in a chronic fight/flight/freeze/collapse state, making it nearly impossible to "think your way out" of overwhelm.

To shift your mindset, you must also regulate your nervous system to build resilience and maintain balance.

Regulated Nervous System = Money Resilience

A dysregulated nervous system affects our mental health and our ability to be practical and forward-thinking about money & life in general.

In somatic trauma therapy, we say that a healthy nervous system is flexible—it can return to regulation and hold charge without spilling over. Simply put, a robust nervous system helps us stay present and reasonable, even in stressful situations, instead of losing our s*it or putting our head in the sand.

This resilience is crucial for making, managing, keeping, and growing wealth.

Building a Business? Your Money Story and Nervous System Will Be Front & Centre

If you’re reading this, you’re likely not only a mom but also an entrepreneur. Many women I’ve met in the MOB community juggle motherhood and running a business. It's no small feat—your nervous system is constantly in "survival mode."

Starting a soul-led business forces you to confront your deepest patterns and beliefs about yourself, including your relationship to money. It will take you on a wild journey and you’ll face everything that stands in the way of your fullest expression and a healthy bank balance.

Building my business has been a process of unraveling and dissolving outdated beliefs and identities that no longer support my journey toward financial, mental & spiritual freedom.

What Financial Security Means to Me

Financial security means I don’t have to continuously trade time for money. It’s about creating scalable offers that generate income even when I’m not actively working. Financial security - most importantly - is a complete shift in my mindset and nervous system where the default belief is that I am worthy of the money I desire and I will always be provided for.

This belief is crucial because the greatest blockage to wealth is the quality of our thoughts and emotions surrounding money—and, as mentioned, these are influenced by our nervous system.

A Bottom-Up, Top-Down Approach to Rewiring Money Beliefs

Many of our beliefs about money lie deep in the subconscious. They often only reveal themselves when we’re forced to make money from scratch, like when starting a business. I didn’t fully understand my money beliefs until I had none and had to figure out how to generate it.

A trigger like this can be a great way to access our deep-seated beliefs but what do we do once we know the truth? It’s not enough to address them at the mindset level alone—we must also work with the body.  We can't access & alter the subconscious through thinking only. We need our bodies on board too.

This is why enthusiasm after money mindset workshops often fades; we can't trace what we learnt back to a place within our system that is spacious and open for us to hold the new belief. We come off our emotional high back to our sobering reality.

This was my experience when I tried to change my money mindset through thoughts alone. It never lasted. On a cellular level, I still didn’t believe I deserved the wealth I desired.

It took relentless commitment to my embodiment & somatic work to create a dialogue with my body and slowly rewire my subconscious beliefs. Doing mindset work now feels a whole lotta different. I can feeeeeel that the words and concepts and new beliefs have a way to take root and create a new blueprint in my whole system.

Why Mums Who Build?

The MOB community is full of inspiring women, many of whom are also building their own businesses. I love how relatable everyone is, and I often receive invaluable insights and practical guidance from those further along the journey or from other areas of business. The variety of interests and open discussions during hangouts make it a refreshing space where we can talk about anything and everything. I always come away from our hangouts inspired and uplifted. It is a truly wonderful community that I am proud to be a part of.

What I'm reading and listening

Book:

• Jen Sincero - You are a badass at making money.

• A fantastic book. It's helping me so much putting my a$$ in gear and strengthening my faith in my ability to create wealth.

Podcast:

• The Cosmic Matrix - psycho-spiritual healing

• There's a couple of great episodes on the mother & father wound that I found really helpful.

Final Thoughts: Aligning Mindset and Nervous System for Wealth

Rewiring money beliefs requires both a top-down and bottom-up approach. If there's no capacity or flexibility in your nervous system, if you collapse under the stresses of building a business/paying bills/irregular income, if you can't back yourself because your whole body is trembling with a fear of failure or rejection, no amount of mindset work on its own will get you out of that spot.

You must work on your emotions and nervous system, too.

Wealth is as much an energetic state as it is a mindset. It’s about what you radiate through your entire being.

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Hedi bio:

Hedi is an ex-Ad Tech executive turned Holistic Coach and Somatic Practitioner, having founded her own wellbeing company, The Soul Works. Driven by her deeper calling, she now focuses on and teaches self-mastery, self-advocacy and how to live in alignment with our essence. Her work blends therapeutic modalities like somatic work, energetic attunement, self-development frameworks, and mindfulness.

In July, she hosted a MOB surgery on somatic practices for emotional regulation and stress resilience. We explored the autonomic nervous system’s impact on our emotions, thoughts, and relationships. She also shared practical tools such as body scan meditation and awareness techniques, offering the participants tools for deeper presence in stressful moments.

She also holds monthly Somatic Movement classes (called Release to Peace) locally in Wanstead as well as online. You can sign up here.