Our money relationship brings us into direct contact with a whole range of deep, complex themes,

including our relationship to pleasure, abundance, and thriving, how we access feelings of

enoughness and safety, our capacity to feel worthy and valuable, our self-confidence, self-reliance, and resilience, and our

ability to get vulnerable and ask for help. I'm Erin Holt, and this is the Functional Nutrition

podcast where we lean into intuitive functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment,

our emotions, and our beliefs all affect our physical

health. I've got over a decade of clinical experience, and because of that, I've got a major

bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model. This show is for you if you're

looking for new ways of thinking about your health, and you're ready to be an active participant

in your

own healing. I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never

know whose life you might change. Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, today I am re-releasing parts of

an older show that I recorded over a year ago. This is a brand new introduction, these words that

you're listening to right now, brand new, because I want to explain why I am intentionally

choosing to re-release this episode. The only episode I've ever done on money. And you might be

asking, especially if you're new here, why is there an episode on money

on a health podcast, which would be a great cue, great cue. There's two main reasons for this.

And the first has to do with a pep talk that I recently gave a friend who is having some health

issues. And she knows that she needs support, but she told me she feels guilty

spending that kind of money on herself. That's what she told me. And I say, girl, no.

It is time for a pep talk, turn into a pep rally, and I'm going to share that with you.

There's a huge difference between spending and investing. The way I look at this

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