The Richness of Life & The Ripple Effect of Abundance, Bby!!
A reflection on abundance upon the completion of participating in my first abundance challenge and the publishing of my most recent post on finances.
It’s been about two weeks since I posted a very raw and real post about abundance.
At that time, I was finishing up a 21-Day Abundance Challenge that was pushing me to reflect on abundance in a way that took me out of my “financial thoughts” comfort zone. I was discovering some hard financial truths about my personal money trauma and learning to get out of the scarcity mindset that was eating me alive throughout most of my life.
I began to look at my debts and bank account regularly, making decisions based on what money was coming in and coming out, and doing my best to remind myself that money is always out there and available to me when I need it. I was getting deeper into my meditation practice and starting to visualize what being truly “rich” looked like. For years, I thought that meant a big fancy house with an unnecessary amount of rooms, private jet and private beach getaways, Gotti jewelry, and champagne in crystal flutes.
But honestly, my definition of richness has changed dramatically.
Now, I view “richness” like the richness of a cake. When we say a cake is “rich,” we mean that it is high-quality and is made up of many flavors, there’s not just one ingredient that outshines the rest.
I realized while in my abundance challenge, that that’s what I want to experience in my life — full-bodied flavor.
Joy that comes from more than a paycheck.
For me, it is a cozy home with a kitchen where I can nourish myself and my family, a bountiful garden filled with produce and beautiful wildflowers, sitting under an endless sky breathing in coastal air; it’s the bliss I get when I’m creating community and holding space for others, the pleasure I get from being with the person I love, the excitement of trying something new, the thrill of creating. It’s all these things… but it is also money.
Having money and a good relationship with it, IS necessary for abundance, at least in the current climate of the world we are living in. Nothing is really free here. Maybe you’re going to a free concert this weekend, but you might need to drive the car you have a car payment on, and you might need to fill up your tank on the way there. And since you can’t fill up your gas tank with the excitement of going to a free concert, you have to use money for fuel. Perhaps you want to get some food before the show. So yes, the experience was free, but there are other things you might have needed money for. And so it’s okay to want money. An abundance mindset doesn’t mean being a billionaire, it means having comfort and no worries about how you’re going to fill up your gas tank, because you know money is there.
An abundance mindset is being like yeah, I have everything I need and I know there’s more of it out there should I wish to receive it.
So I wrote this piece about the abundance mindset, using some scary, real personal examples of my own and I published it.
And the response I received afterward set my heart ablaze. Many people reached out to me through text and in my Instagram DMs thanking me for this post and sharing a little bit of their own personal stories with me. I had 8 women sign up for my own 21-Day Abundance Challenge who are actively working through it right now. That ripple effect means the absolute world to me.
In addition to all of that, one person even used it to inspire him to record a podcast episode he had been thinking about creating for a while.
Now, I’m a bit biased because that particular podcaster is my partner, Joe, but this episode is worth listening to. He talks about his own personal experience with living an intentional life and abundance and also touches on how your relationship with money REALLY is about your relationship with your own sense of self.
I will say, I FEEL abundant as ever and part of that is having a partner like Joe, who just has this amazing heart and shares so many similar values with me. I feel very fortunate that we get to inspire each other to live abundantly individually and as a couple, so I am honored to recommend this episode of his podcast to all of you!
Hopefully, all of this raw, vulnerable realness around abundance can continue rippling to those who need to feel it’s warmth.
Here to support you however you need.
All my love,
Adele