You make good money and you're sick of feeling broke
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You're successful. Why doesn't money feel better.
You earn enough that you should have something to show for it. But at the end of the month, there’s surprisingly little left to save, invest or put toward the things you really want. And after all this time, it’s hard not to wonder why you still haven’t figured it out.
You’re used to figuring things out. But your finances just aren’t budging.
When something matters to you, you learn what you need to learn and find a way forward. That’s part of how you became successful. But despite everything you know about money, you keep finding yourself back in the same place. And your frustration, doubt and worry seem to be growing.
You want your financial life to feel as successful as it looks.
You have enough income to create a great life, but on the inside, you’re stressed and worried that you’re not doing financial adulting well enough. The feeling there is something you should be doing differently or better is familiar and getting heavier. Instead, you want to enjoy and celebrate what you’ve built, feel confident about the choices you’re making, and see your money moving toward what matters to you.
WHY WE CREATED THIS TOGETHER:
Researchers call it the intention–behaviour gap: knowing what you intend to do doesn’t mean you’ll consistently do it.
Financial information alone doesn’t always lead to financial change. You can know exactly what you intend to do and still feel pulled to do something different.
“If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want.” — Moshe Feldenkrais
Christine and Isabel created Financial Nervous System Refresh to address that gap: bringing together a clear, workable financial plan with nervous-system work that helps you recognize and change the habitual patterns influencing what you actually do.
KNOW WHAT TO DO
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
The state of our finances is shaped, in large part, by the financial habits we repeat every day. What if there were an effective—and sustainable—way to change those habits?
Lasting financial change isn’t just about the numbers. Financial Nervous System Refresh brings financial planning and nervous-system work together to help you change the habits driving your financial life.
First, you’ll work with Christine to get clear about your finances without judgement or pressure. She’ll listen closely to what matters to you and create a cash flow plan around your actual life—your income, expenses, priorities, goals and the things you want to enjoy. You’ll leave with greater clarity about where you stand and the reassurance of knowing you have a plan that was made especially for you.
A financial plan gives you clarity about what you want to do with your money. But knowing what to do doesn’t necessarily change what you actually do. That’s because your financial habits aren't just the sum total of your thoughts. They also contain your fears and joys, beliefs and life history—and are encoded in your nervous system.
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
That’s where movement comes in.
A financial habit is a behaviour—and behaviour involves movement. Reaching for your credit card, avoiding your banking app, making an impulse purchase or putting off a financial conversation may look like single actions, but each is made up of a cascade of smaller movements and responses that have become automatic over time.
Your nervous system organizes and controls those movements. So if we want to work with habitual behaviour, we can go back to the nervous system that organizes it.
In Financial Nervous System Refresh, we do that through movement. By introducing small, novel movements, we give the nervous system new information. That helps it recognize the movements that make up an old habit—and discover other possibilities.
Financial planning and nervous-system work belong together when you want change that lasts. A plan gives you clarity and direction. Nervous-system work helps you change the habits and behaviours that determine how you actually use your money. Together, you’re working with both what you want to do and what you actually do—creating the conditions for deeper, more sustainable financial change.
our signature process is even more powerful in a group
A group holds you to a higher standard for yourself.
Humans are wired to be more accountable to others than we are to ourselves. The group holds you to a higher standard—not through pressure or shame, but by helping you keep showing up for the changes you want to make.
Learn from questions you didn’t know you had.
Someone else may ask the question you were hesitant to ask—or describe an experience that helps you recognize something in yourself. You benefit not only from the support you receive, but from what you discover by listening to others.
The group give you the opportunity to notice and work with your reactions.
Money conversations can bring up real reactions. Hearing someone talk about spending, saving, debt or saying no might leave you tense, relieved, defensive or hopeful. Instead of simply talking about those reactions, the group gives you an opportunity to notice and work with them in the moment.
Experience the energy and exhilaration of moving forward together.
There’s something powerful about being with other growth-oriented, courageous people who really understand—and who are also taking action on something that may have been bothering them for years. This isn’t a shame game. It’s a chance to experience the energy and exhilaration of moving forward together, sharing discoveries, celebrating progress and building hope and momentum along the way. Being part of a group also creates a natural sense of accountability to keep showing up for the changes you want to make.
And you never have to share more than you want to. Your personal financial details stay private, and you decide what parts of your experience you bring to the group. You can be fully part of the learning, energy and connection without exposing your finances.
You don’t have to expose your finances to experience the power of community.
Meet your coaches
Christine Urbanowski P.Eng, CFC™
Christine Urbanowski P.Eng, CFC™
Christine Urbanowski P.Eng, CFC™
Christine Urbanowski brings extensive experience helping individuals and couples understand their finances and create practical plans that work in real life. As a Certified Financial Coach, Trauma of Money Certified practitioner and former professional engineer, she combines a numbers-based approach with an understanding of the emotional
Christine Urbanowski brings extensive experience helping individuals and couples understand their finances and create practical plans that work in real life. As a Certified Financial Coach, Trauma of Money Certified practitioner and former professional engineer, she combines a numbers-based approach with an understanding of the emotional and behavioural patterns that influence how we manage money.
Christine has spent hundreds of hours coaching individuals and couples through spending, debt, saving, financial decision-making and competing priorities. Her approach brings an important foundation to this program: financial clarity without judgement, and a personalized plan built around your actual life, values and goals.
Read more about Christine HERE
Isabel Prystawik RTC
Christine Urbanowski P.Eng, CFC™
Christine Urbanowski P.Eng, CFC™
Isabel Prystawik, RTC, brings more than 25 years of experience in somatic learning and personal growth to Financial Nervous System Refresh. She has completed more than 1,000 hours of training in Cortical Field Re-Education® (CFR), a movement-based approach that works directly with habitual nervous-system patterns.
Isabel is also a Registe
Isabel Prystawik, RTC, brings more than 25 years of experience in somatic learning and personal growth to Financial Nervous System Refresh. She has completed more than 1,000 hours of training in Cortical Field Re-Education® (CFR), a movement-based approach that works directly with habitual nervous-system patterns.
Isabel is also a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor. Her counselling experience brings an important additional layer to this program: an understanding of the emotions, beliefs, relationships and life experiences that can become intertwined with our financial habits, and the skill to work with what arises in a consent-based, non-judgmental way.
Read more about Isabel HERE
“It’s not a question of increasing your willpower. It’s a question of increasing your ability to do it.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
Ready to make good money feel like good money?
Create a fully customized financial plan, tailored specifically to your lifestyle, change the patterns that keep pulling you off course and feel calm, grounded and empowered with money decisions.
Investment $2500 (GST Included)
We know—we’re in your head right now.
Part of you is wondering how spending $2,500 could possibly help you become better with money. Another part may already be feeling guilty, anxious or ready to close this page. That reaction is exactly why this program exists: to help you build a financial system that works and change the patterns that keep pulling you away from it.
Participating with a spouse or partner? Add them for $1250 (GST Included).
