What if being spiritual did not require you to struggle?What if serving others did not mean sacrificing your own needs?What if you could be deeply devoted to your spiritual path while also being abundant, supported, visible, and well-paid for your gifts?These are some of the powerful questions Leslie and I explore in this special episode of The Spiritual Sanctuary: Wisdom for the Divine Feminine and during our upcoming in-person healing experience, The Sovereign Feminine: Womb Healing, Abundance &amp; Devoted Service.This conversation is especially for healers, intuitives, caregivers, spiritual teachers, helpers, and heart-centered women who give so much of themselves to others. Many of us have been taught—directly or indirectly—that being a “good woman” means putting everyone else first. We may believe that spiritual service should be freely given, that wanting money makes us selfish, or that exhaustion is proof of our devotion.But devotion should not require depletion.<h2 id="4a8f3a55-c403-438f-897d-1fdd98edfd25" data-toc-id="4a8f3a55-c403-438f-897d-1fdd98edfd25" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">When Devotion Becomes Deprivation</h2>Leslie brings a very personal perspective to this conversation. During her time as a nun, she took a vow of poverty as part of her spiritual devotion.A vow of poverty may originally represent simplicity, humility, trust, or freedom from attachment. However, the beliefs connected to that vow can remain deeply embedded in the subconscious—even after a person’s life and circumstances have changed.Many women have never formally taken a vow of poverty, yet they still carry similar beliefs:<ul><li>I must struggle to be spiritual.</li><li>It is wrong to want more.</li><li>Charging for healing or spiritual work is selfish.</li><li>Other people’s needs should always come before mine.</li><li>Receiving money for my gifts makes my work less sacred.</li><li>I must sacrifice myself to prove that I care.</li><li>If I become successful, I will lose my spiritual integrity.</li></ul>These messages may come from religion, family, culture, past experiences, ancestral patterns, or the expectations placed upon women. Over time, they can become what Leslie describes as a trance of lack.We may consciously desire abundance while unconsciously believing that it is unsafe, selfish, or unspiritual to receive it.Leslie’s work helps uncover the deeper beliefs and hidden vows that may influence our relationship with money, visibility, support, and receiving. Through transformational hypnosis, she helps people begin replacing the old story of sacrifice with a new truth:We can be spiritual, devoted, abundant, supported, and well-paid.<h2 id="e48bce8a-bea2-4d25-a3ab-d0fbf2354912" data-toc-id="e48bce8a-bea2-4d25-a3ab-d0fbf2354912" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Service Does Not Have to Mean Self-Abandonment</h2>Many healers, caregivers, teachers, intuitives, and spiritual women are natural givers. We listen, nurture, teach, guide, comfort, and hold space for others.Giving is beautiful when it comes from a place of choice and fullness. But giving becomes harmful when it requires us to abandon ourselves.Overgiving may look like:<ul><li>Saying yes when your body is asking you to rest</li><li>Offering more time and energy than you can sustainably give</li><li>Undercharging or refusing payment for valuable work</li><li>Feeling responsible for everyone else’s healing</li><li>Believing your needs are less important</li><li>Feeling guilty when someone helps or supports you</li><li>Giving until you feel exhausted, resentful, or invisible</li><li>Immediately trying to repay anything you receive</li></ul>This is where the idea of the Sovereign Feminine becomes so important.The Sovereign Feminine is loving, compassionate, intuitive, and generous—but she is not powerless. She recognizes the sacredness of her energy. She understands that her boundaries protect her gifts. She does not have to suffer to prove her worth, and she does not confuse self-neglect with spiritual service.She serves from fullness rather than emptiness.<h2 id="dff4167c-5100-48d1-9d8e-52e8ec6f88ae" data-toc-id="dff4167c-5100-48d1-9d8e-52e8ec6f88ae" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Returning to the Sacred Womb</h2>After Leslie’s work with the subconscious beliefs surrounding poverty, sacrifice, and lack, I guide participants into Divine Feminine healing and womb healing.The womb is more than a physical organ. It can also be understood as a sacred energetic and creative center—a place connected with intuition, desire, receiving, creation, transformation, and personal power.Womb healing is not limited to pregnancy, fertility, or motherhood. It is open to women in every season of life, including women who are postmenopausal, have experienced hysterectomy, have experienced pregnancy loss, or have a complicated relationship with the womb and traditional ideas about femininity.You do not need to have a physical womb to connect with the wisdom of your creative center.Many women have experienced shame, grief, trauma, illness, rejection, overwork, or years of putting everyone else first. These experiences may leave us feeling disconnected from our bodies and uncertain about what we truly want.Womb healing invites us to return.It asks us to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with the part of ourselves that knows how to create, discern, receive, rest, and begin again.<h2 id="64a1c6af-868c-4c36-8ebf-d3c01df3770f" data-toc-id="64a1c6af-868c-4c36-8ebf-d3c01df3770f" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">The Relationship Between the Womb and Abundance</h2>Abundance is not only about money. It can include love, rest, time, creativity, opportunities, pleasure, community, spiritual connection, and the freedom to live in alignment with our values.Abundance also requires the willingness to receive.For women who have spent their lives caring for others, receiving can feel surprisingly uncomfortable. We may want support, but our nervous system may not believe that it is safe to have it. We may accept help and then immediately feel guilty or obligated to repay it.Womb healing can help us explore these patterns through the body rather than only through the thinking mind.Can I receive without apologizing?Can I rest without proving that I have earned it?Can I allow my gifts to be valued?Can I be supported without losing my independence?Can I experience abundance and remain true to my spiritual path?The Sovereign Feminine teaches us that receiving is not selfish. Receiving is part of the sacred rhythm of life. There must be an inhale as well as an exhale. There must be replenishment as well as service.<h2 id="7a207ea9-2056-49a0-ade8-4293d8468aca" data-toc-id="7a207ea9-2056-49a0-ade8-4293d8468aca" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">What We Explore in This Podcast Episode</h2>During this episode, Leslie and I discuss:<ul><li>Leslie’s experience as a nun and her vow of poverty</li><li>The difference between spiritual simplicity and chronic lack</li><li>How subconscious vows can continue influencing our lives</li><li>Why healers and spiritual women may struggle to charge for their gifts</li><li>The hidden relationship between overgiving and self-worth</li><li>How hypnosis can help transform subconscious beliefs</li><li>The meaning of Divine Feminine sovereignty</li><li>The womb as a center of intuition, creativity, and receiving</li><li>Why womb healing is relevant during every season of a woman’s life</li><li>The difference between devoted service and self-sacrifice</li><li>How women can serve from abundance rather than depletion</li></ul>This episode is an invitation to consider what you may still believe you must sacrifice in order to be loved, spiritual, or worthy.<h2 id="1143d3d2-72b5-4016-86e8-13479ce00366" data-toc-id="1143d3d2-72b5-4016-86e8-13479ce00366" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Questions for Personal Reflection</h2>As you listen, take a moment to reflect on these questions:<ul><li>What did I learn about women, money, and spirituality?</li><li>Do I believe that struggle makes me more worthy?</li><li>Where am I giving more than I can sustainably offer?</li><li>What emotions arise when I imagine being fully supported?</li><li>Do I feel comfortable receiving without immediately giving something back?</li><li>What belief about lack or sacrifice am I ready to release?</li><li>What part of my power am I ready to reclaim?</li><li>What am I finally willing to receive?</li></ul>You may wish to journal your answers without judging or correcting them. Let yourself be honest. Awareness is often the first opening through which transformation begins.<h2 id="cb261e44-441d-4a88-8547-847418ce4981" data-toc-id="cb261e44-441d-4a88-8547-847418ce4981" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Join Us for the In-Person Healing Experience</h2>If this conversation speaks to something deep within you, we invite you to join us in person for:The Sovereign Feminine: Womb Healing, Abundance &amp; Devoted ServiceLeslie will share her personal story of devotion and her vow of poverty from her time as a nun. She will then guide participants through transformational hypnosis to help break the trance of lack and anchor a new belief: we can be spiritual, in service, abundant, supported, and well-paid.I will lead a Divine Feminine Healing and Womb Healing to help you reconnect with your womb and creative center as a sacred place of power, receiving, intuition, and abundance.We will close our time together with journaling and reflection so that you can begin integrating what you released, what you reclaimed, and what you are ready to receive.Sunday, August 9 12:30–2:30 p.m. The Healing Society of Nashville Investment: $55<a target="_blank" href="https://www.bertena.org/en/event/the-sovereign-feminine-womb-healing-abundance-and-devoted-service/6768/">Register for The Sovereign Feminine in-person event</a>To learn more about my Divine Feminine, spiritual healing, and womb-healing work, visit <a target="_blank" href="http://Bertena.org">Bertena.org</a>.To learn more about Leslie’s hypnosis, abundance, and spiritual healing work, visit <a target="_blank" href="https://musiccityhealing.com/">Music City Healing</a>. Leslie is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist whose work includes subconscious transformation and exploration of the hidden beliefs that can affect receiving, money, and visibility.You do not have to choose between spirituality and abundance.You do not have to exhaust yourself to prove your devotion.You do not have to disappear in order to serve.You are allowed to be devoted and well-supported. You are allowed to honor your gifts and receive for them. You are allowed to return to your body, reclaim your power, and create a life in which service and abundance can exist together.AffirmationI release the belief that I must suffer to be of service. I am allowed to be spiritual, devoted, abundant, supported, and well-paid. My body is sacred. My gifts are valuable. I receive with openness, wisdom, and gratitude.

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