I Didn’t Rewire My Money Story by Manifesting Harder
- Kelly McCooeye
- May 5
- 3 min read
(Here’s What Actually Helped)
There’s a weird thing that happens when you’ve done a lot of healing work.
You’re no longer swimming in chaos... but you're not quite free either.
You know the old money patterns. You’ve named the beliefs.
You’ve journaled them to death. You even made peace with your childhood self
who thought $20 was a fortune (bless her little budgeting heart).
But there’s still this strange tightness when money comes in. Or when it doesn’t.
That was me.
And not ten years ago. Like... this year.
I thought receiving would feel like ease.
But instead, it brought up so much stuff I thought I’d already healed.
I’d just made some pretty big financial moves in my business. The kind that should’ve had me twirling around the living room with Beyoncé-level confidence.
But instead? I felt fear. Not fear of failure. Fear of loss.
Fear that the money would disappear.
Fear that if I let myself relax, I’d be punished for it.
Fear that if I claimed too much, I’d lose people. Or love.
It wasn’t logical. It wasn’t about strategy. And it sure as hell wasn’t going to be solved
by repeating “I am abundant” into my coffee.
So I did what I do when I feel that ache in my chest and the old rules
whispering in my ear: I created a practice.
Not to fix myself. To understand myself.
And that’s how the “Art of Receiving” was born.
This wasn’t about learning how to ask for more.
It was about learning how to let it in.
Receiving sounds passive.
But oh honey, it’s anything but.
Receiving means letting the spotlight hit the part of you
that still flinches when good things arrive.
It means witnessing your inner protector start to panic when
the nervous system whispers “too much.”
It means honoring the grief of the women you came from - who were taught to survive, not to thrive.
For me, it meant sitting in meditation with my jaw clenched and asking my body:
“What are you still afraid will happen if we have more?”
The answers were wild and tender and sometimes ridiculous.
Like the part of me that thought I'd be abandoned if I became successful.
Or the one who believed receiving meant taking, and taking meant being selfish.
Or the memory of being told that "blessed are the poor" while being
expected to tithe my way into worthiness.
Turns out, expanding your capacity to receive isn’t about being “high vibe.”
It’s about being real with what still feels hard to hold.
If you’re doing “all the right things” and still feel like you can’t quite let it land...
It’s not because you’re blocked. It’s because receiving is vulnerable.
And no one taught us how to hold that vulnerability with tenderness. Especially not in religious spaces, or corporate culture, or high-control families that equated rest with laziness and desire with shame.
But that’s exactly why I am creating The Art of Receiving course. Not to give you more tools.
To give you a space to stretch into your next chapter with support.
If any of that feels like your reflection, I’d love to invite you into the first round of this experience.
I’m gathering a small group of women who I know will really dig in.
We’ll cry a little.
Laugh a lot.
And slowly, steadily, expand your capacity for the good kind of more.
Here’s what helped me shift, and what I’ll be sharing inside the course:
I stopped trying to “upgrade my beliefs” like I'm a damned computer and started listening to the parts of me that still felt scared of having more.
I stopped pushing through discomfort and started making space for it to teach me.
I let receiving be relational instead of transactional. Between me and my nervous system. Me and my younger self. Me and whatever future version I’m stepping into.
This isn’t about effort. It’s about capacity.
And most of us were never taught how to hold more without bracing.
A few signs you might be in this season too:
You get what you asked for… then feel unsettled instead of safe.
You downplay your desires so no one thinks you’re greedy.
You feel more familiar with striving than with being supported.
🌱 Long-Term Impact
This isn’t just about money (though yes, your bank account will thank you).
It’s about how you let in joy, love, visibility, rest, and truth. It’s about rewriting
your relationship with having, without fear of what it might cost.
Because abundance isn't just about what flows in.
It’s about what you're strong enough to receive without abandoning yourself.
Want in?
Comment “I’m expanding” or DM me for the link.
Let’s make this the season you stop bracing... and start receiving.





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