In a hammock in El Salvador, Joe read that a Sequoia partner had become a billionaire off a WhatsApp investment, and felt a hard kick to his stomach. Instead of analyzing it, he closed his eyes and somatically tracked where the feeling came from. What surfaced was the felt sense of chasing his father’s love and not getting it.
“What I recognized was that was the feeling of me chasing my dad’s love. Me chasing my dad’s love and not getting it.”
The unlock wasn’t the shame he felt — it was the recognition that he had taken his entire relationship with his father and projected it onto money. “Dad doesn’t love me and I have to chase it” had quietly become “Money doesn’t love me, I have to chase it.”
“All I had done is taken a relationship that I had with my father and put it onto, projected it onto money.”
Seeing the projection told him exactly what needed healing. The money struggle was never really about money; it was an unresolved relationship wearing money as a mask. Heal the original wound and the chasing stops.
Related Concepts
- Money is a projection of childhood emotional patterns
- Money resistance often mirrors childhood wounds around love and worth
- Money wounds trace back to parent wounds
- Money patterns replay childhood connection patterns
- Money is a screen for projection
- Your beliefs about money create your financial reality