191 The Money Healer with Dr. Amanda Barrientez191 The Money Healer with Dr. Amanda Barrientez
You're Sober! Now What?
Tamar Medford talks with Dr Amanda Barrientez about money blocks, codependency and self‑love, linking financial healing with long‑term sobriety. The conversation centres on practical routines and mindset shifts that may help people in recovery change how they relate to money and themselves.
55:11•23 Mar 2022
The Money Healer: Sobriety, Self‑Worth and Fixing Your Relationship with Cash
Episode Overview
- Recognise where you’re blaming others for your situation, as this blocks your ability to change.
- Start reframing negative beliefs about money and worth to gradually rewire your thinking.
- Build a consistent morning routine with personal development, journalling, meditation and movement to align your energy.
- Treat yourself with small daily acts of self‑love to make investing in growth feel natural rather than scary.
- Notice how fear or stress in one area of life can spill into money, health and relationships, and work on alignment across all of them.
“If you blame everyone else, you have no power to change.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol and then start asking big questions about money, self-worth and purpose? This conversation on *You're Sober! Now What?* brings together host Tamar Medford and guest Dr Amanda Barrientez, "The Money Healer", to chat about what happens to your finances and mindset once the drinking stops.
You’ll hear Amanda share how growing up as a fundamentalist Christian, later facing bankruptcy and food stamps, and confronting her own codependency led her to create NFA (No Fucking Around) Money. She now helps people spot and shift their "money blocks" – those hidden beliefs like "I’m not worthy" or "I don’t deserve success" that can quietly sabotage recovery and business dreams.
The episode speaks directly to people in sobriety who’ve wrecked their finances, rebuilt a foundation, and now feel scared to invest in themselves or start a business.
Amanda lays out her three-step NFA money formula: recognise your blocks, reframe them, and rewire your brain over time, stressing that "if you blame everyone else, you have no power to change." She and Tamar swap stories about bankruptcy, toxic relationships, codependency and the comfort of stress, showing how fear around money often mirrors fear around relapse.
There’s plenty on practical daily habits too: morning routines, journalling, personal development, meditation and exercise as non‑negotiables for getting "energetically aligned" so money and recovery feel less like a constant fight. The tone stays relaxed and funny, even while tackling shame, guilt and the terror of leaving a "safety net" job.
If you’re sober, sick of financial chaos and ready to treat yourself with more self‑love than self‑sabotage, this chat offers ideas, language and simple practices to start changing how you think about money and your future. What might shift for you if you stopped seeing yourself as the problem and started seeing yourself as the investment?
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