123: Healing Worthiness: Christine Gutierrez on Addiction, Power & Pleasure as Medicine
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you have to earn your worth—whether by over-functioning or staying stuck in struggle?
In this week's Plenty episode, I sit down with psychotherapist, mentor, and author Christine Gutierrez to explore healing worthiness through sobriety, power, and pleasure as medicine. We dive into why so many of us confuse toxic capitalism with true abundance, how to let old identities "die" so new ones can be born, and the practical, compassionate steps to reclaim your inherent worth—no proving required.
What you'll learn:
- Worthiness first, money second: How rooting in inherent worth transforms your relationship with money and expands real abundance (without the hustle-and-prove loop)
- Sobriety—many paths, same heartbeat: Christine shares a non-dogmatic approach to changing your relationship with alcohol and choosing self-tenderness over self-punishment
- Masks that drain us: Recognizing people-pleasing, "good girl" conditioning, and hyper-independence—and how to gently retire these exhausting patterns
- The "life-death-life" cycle: Why true thriving includes endings, mess, and rebirth—and how to meet transitions with both grit and honey
- Pleasure as spiritual pathway: Rewriting inherited scripts that glorify suffering and renounce the body to reclaim joy as sacred
- Receiving with dignity: Especially for women of color, claiming fair compensation as part of collective healing—not a betrayal of your values
This conversation will leave you with permission to stop performing your worth and start living from it.
About Christine
Christine is the author of I Am Worthy and I Am Diosa, a psychotherapist and facilitator whose work blends trauma healing, spirituality, and practical tools for women’s empowerment.Â
“We cannot be in our soul led place on a bed of lies, we just can’t.” –Christine Gutierrez
🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff 🎤
00:25 Guest Introduction: Christine Gutierrez
02:20 Exploring Worthiness in Money Work
05:08 Spirituality vs. Mundane Life
09:37 Paths to Sobriety and Healing
13:33 Masks of Over-Functioning Women
19:02 Deserving More: Beyond Mediocrity
26:45 Patterns of Worthiness and Struggle
33:39 Undoing Lies of Unworthiness
36:22 The Role of Compassion in Advocacy
40:00 Relationship with Money and Worthiness
44:11 Empowerment through Financial Growth
45:34 The Game of Worthiness
Links and Resources:
I am Diosa
Terri Cole
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Nisha
Connect with Christine Gutierrez:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you are in a toxic abusive relationship, what's going to get you out is going to be therapy and you're going to need supportive resources to get you out. |
| 0:06.5 | If you are sick, talking about when we were talking about the situation with my daughter's father, money. |
| 0:11.9 | All of these resources really ground you into realizing money helps you. |
| 0:15.8 | It can give so much freedom. |
| 0:17.2 | There's a topic that comes up constantly whenever I speak with women about money, |
| 0:23.3 | and that is worthiness. So today we have Christine Gutierrez, who is a psychotherapist and a |
| 0:33.2 | mentor and a facilitator. She's the author of I Am Diosa and her brand new book is out. It is called |
| 0:40.6 | I Am Worthy. Christine is an absolute trailblazer in the field of women's spiritual transformation. |
| 0:52.2 | Her ability to tell the story of how we can turn any experience and any |
| 1:01.7 | background into fodder for our greatest aliveness is absolutely gorgeous and inspiring. |
| 1:09.5 | And in this conversation, we talk about her journey of becoming sober and her own money |
| 1:18.6 | healing journey, how we conflate consumerism and toxic capitalism with abundance and how we |
| 1:27.0 | can stop doing that, |
| 1:29.3 | how we are rewarded for overfunctioning, and also often rewarded for our struggle |
| 1:36.4 | and how we can find the sweet spot in between and so much more. |
| 1:41.0 | Christine's work has been featured by Oprah Daily, the Kelly Clarkson show, Latina |
| 1:46.4 | Magazine, Ebony, and more. And I think you are just going to fall in love with her. Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:54.3 | Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey |
| 2:00.4 | to help you have an incredible relationship |
| 2:03.2 | with money, time, and energy, and to have abundance on every possible level. Every week, we're going |
| 2:12.9 | to dive in with experts and insights to help you unlock a life of plenty. |
| 2:19.7 | Let's go fill our cups. |
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