174. Mother Wounds and Money: Why Enough Feels Impossible — And How to Let It Flow to You [Inheritance Part 2]

174. Mother Wounds and Money: Why Enough Feels Impossible — And How to Let It Flow to You [Inheritance Part 2]

From Plenty with Kate Northrup by Kate Northrup, Author, Entrepreneur, and Speaker

September 1, 2026 · 27 min

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Kate Northrup explores the connection between mother wounds and money, discussing how early experiences shape our relationship with abundance and support.

What if your relationship with “enough” began before you were even born? In this second episode of the Inheritance series, Kate Northrup explores the connection between the mother wound, the feminine, and money. She explains why our mother is our first economy—and how our earliest experiences of nurturing, presence, support, and flow can shape whether we feel there will ever truly be enough for us. Kate shares her own story of growing up with a mother who modeled financial abundance while having limited time and emotional availability, and traces those patterns even further back through her maternal lineage. She explores how these early experiences can show up later as difficulty receiving support, financial codependency, jealousy, scarcity, and the belief that we have to handle everything ourselves. She also breaks down wounded versus healthy expressions of feminine energy and how qualities like nurturing, intuition, surrender, allowing, and flow can transform our relationship with money. Rather than blaming our mothers, Kate invites us to recognize the unconscious patterns we inherited so we can begin to repattern them. This episode is an invitation to examine what you learned…

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