Financial Nervous System Refresh
Create a workable financial plan, change the patterns that keep pulling you off course and feel calm, grounded and capable with money
coming fall 2026
You know what you should be doing with money. So why is it still so hard?
This program is for people who look like they have it together but privately feel stressed, ashamed or out of control with money. You may know what you should be doing—and may have tried many times—but something keeps getting in the way of following through.
You may tell yourself you just need to earn more, spend less or finally stick to a budget. But when money activates stress, shame or avoidance, knowing what to do is rarely enough. You may avoid looking, react impulsively, become overly restrictive or repeatedly promise yourself that next month will be different.
Feel calm, grounded and capable with money
Paying off debt, saving more and making better financial decisions all matter. But the real goal is not simply to reach a particular number—it’s to feel confident that your money is being handled and moving toward what matters most to you.
Imagine being able to look at your finances without fear, make decisions you trust and enjoy spending without guilt. When something unexpected happens or you get off track, you know how to adjust and keep moving forward instead of giving up and starting over.
You don’t have to wait until every financial problem is solved to experience relief. You can begin building a calmer, more trusting relationship with money now.
Financial Nervous System Refresh is a small-group program that brings together practical financial coaching with emotional and movement-based support to help create lasting financial change.
A different approach to financial change
Christine Urbanowski, Certified Financial Counsellor, helps you understand your financial picture, decide what you want your money to do for you, and create a practical plan that reflects your priorities, values and real life.
Isabel Prystawik, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, helps you explore the emotional and learned patterns that can get in the way when what you intend to do and what you feel pulled to do don't match.
Through gentle movement-based work, Isabel helps you notice and explore these patterns as they arise — creating more opportunity to choose a different response.
Together, the goal isn't to make you perfect with money or simply better at following a budget.
It's to help you understand yourself and your money, make more intentional choices, see meaningful progress, and build greater trust in yourself with money.
This program may be for you if...
- You know what you should be doing with money but struggle to follow through.
- You've tried budgets, plans or financial advice before, but the changes haven't lasted.
- You're tired of starting over.
- Spending, saving, debt or money avoidance continue to be difficult.
- Money creates stress or tension in your life or relationships.
- You want your money to reflect what actually matters to you.
- You're ready to stop feeling stuck and start seeing meaningful progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at christine@engineeredgrowth.ca if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Those services can be helpful for understanding your finances, tracking your money and knowing what to do next. This program includes the practical work of creating a financial plan, but the plan is only the beginning.
We support you through the real-life experience of living it, including the habits, emotions, relationships and nervous-system patterns that influence the financial choices you make every day. What happens as you live your plan helps you determine what needs attention and what kind of support will be most useful.
The goal isn’t to follow a plan perfectly. It’s to build confidence, create more choice and make progress toward your financial goals while enjoying the life you’re working hard to create.
Those services can be helpful for understanding your finances, tracking your money and knowing what to do next. This program includes the practical work of creating a financial plan, but the plan is only the beginning.
We support you through the real-life experience of living it, including the habits, emotions, relationships and nervous-system patterns that influence the financial choices you make every day. What happens as you live your plan helps you determine what needs attention and what kind of support will be most useful.
The goal isn’t to follow a plan perfectly. It’s to build confidence, create more choice and make progress toward your financial goals while enjoying the life you’re working hard to create.
That’s important information, not a failure. A financial plan can make perfect sense on paper and become much more complicated when it meets real life.
Christine and Isabel will help you look at what happened with curiosity rather than judgement. Sometimes the plan needs adjusting. Sometimes an old habit, emotion, relationship dynamic or nervous-system response is influencing the choices you’re making. Often, there is more than one thing going on.
The goal isn’t to make you comply with a plan. It’s to help you understand what’s happening, make thoughtful adjustments and become more confident making financial decisions as your life changes.
Knowing what you want to do doesn’t always make it easy to do it. Habits, fears and beliefs aren’t only things we think about; they can also be expressed through our behaviour and movement.
In the group sessions, Isabel will guide you through simple movements and small variations. As your nervous system experiences different possibilities, a habitual pattern can become a little less automatic. That matters when you’re making financial decisions because the old response no longer has to feel like the only response available.
This isn’t about making you “stick to a budget.” It’s about relating to your financial resources with greater awareness, choice and confidence.
No. The movements are small, gentle and exploratory. There’s no workout, stretching routine or movement you need to get right. We also won’t be teaching quick techniques to control or override your nervous system.
You’ll be guided through simple movements while paying attention to what you notice and exploring different ways of moving. No particular level of fitness, flexibility or movement experience is required.
You decide what you share. You won’t be expected to disclose your income, debt, savings, spending or other detailed financial information to the group.
You may choose to talk about your experience—what you’re finding difficult, what you’re noticing or what’s working—but you remain in control of how personal you want to get. Your detailed financial planning happens privately with Christine.
Isabel brings her counselling experience and trauma-informed, consent-based approach to the nervous-system work, creating space to explore what comes up without requiring you to disclose the details behind it.
Feeling embarrassed or ashamed about money is common, especially when you feel like you should have figured it out because you’re successful in many other parts of your life.
You can bring that experience into the work without having to explain or discuss it with the group. You can work with what you’re noticing without analyzing it publicly or sharing the story behind it.
Yes. You can still gain clarity about your own priorities, choices and patterns even if your partner doesn’t participate. You may not be able to make every shared financial decision on your own, but changing the way you understand and respond to money can still make a meaningful difference.
If your partner is open to participating, couples are welcome and encouraged to take part together. The program can help partners recognize their habitual reactions, communicate more clearly and make more intentional financial decisions together.
The Financial Nervous System Refresh is an educational and coaching program that combines personalized financial coaching with experiential nervous-system work. It is not a replacement for individual or couples therapy, mental-health treatment, financial planning, investment advice, tax advice or legal advice.
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