Ep 169: Vangile Makwakwa - How to Deal with Money Trauma
This episode is so amazing!
Meet Vangile Makwakwa who heals ancestral trauma around money. We dive super deep into how ancestral wounds and trauma show up and what you can do to move past them. Vangile's story is one you won't be able to tear yourself away from. She vulnerably shares her story and ancestry and apartheid South Africa. And she spotlights the effect of historically being told "you're not enough" and sheds light on how we can move past the after effect many of us experience to prove ourselves in this world.
What You'll Learn in this Episode
The journal prompts to have you shift out of people pleasing and perfectionism
How ancestral trauma is related to money and how we're living today
How Vangile moved from being defensive and angry to healed and open
Nuggets of Wisdom from Vangile
So one of the untangling that I had to do was this belief that came up for me really strongly was that as a woman, and as a black woman in particular, I could not be in charge of my own financial destiny.
I wanted to always prove that I was good enough so I was overdoing, I was showing up exhausted, and part of my anger was coming from the fact that why is nobody seeing my awesomeness right? And nobody could see my awesomeness because I couldn't see my awesomeness.
I felt alone because I was so scared that one day people will know the true me, and they will not love me. And so deep down, I was also showing up as I am unlovable. That was one of the hardest beliefs that I had to work through.
And my parting words of wisdom is just the magic really is in the healing. That's literally my company's tagline is heal for the sake of healing and everything else starts to fall into place. That's where the magic really starts to happen.