Most of us have been handed a story about money since before we were born. That money is dangerous, or shameful, or just out of reach. That people like us don’t have it, or that having it means something is wrong with us. That it is, at best, a necessary burden. Something to be managed, hidden, worried over, or ignored entirely.

What if money, like so much else we carry, is not the problem itself but a place where our unhealed history lives?

In this course, we will explore money not as an inert object but as a relational field — one that is shaped by our attachment histories, our unconscious contracts, and the emotional circuits that drive how we earn, spend, save, and avoid. Drawing on the neuroscience of motivation and emotion, we will look at how different “buckets” of money are held in different parts of the brain, leading us to make decisions that often have very little to do with the money itself, and everything to do with what the money represents. For example, the way we feel spending on a small, tender pleasure is neurologically distinct from the way we feel taking on debt and both are connected to something much older than our current bank balance.

We will work, most importantly, with the distinction between dead money and alive money. Dead money is hidden, avoided, untended — money we pretend we don’t have, or refuse to look at, often because looking feels dangerous or shameful. Alive money is money in relationship: money that is tended, grown, and brought into alignment with our deepest values. Money that is allowed to care for us, and that we are allowed to care for in return.

• Identify and release unconscious contracts that keep money frozen, frightening, or morally charged
• Time-travel into the moments where our money stories were formed — where we were told we were bad with money, or where money was taken from us or our families
• Explore the relationship between our emotional and motivational circuits and our spending, saving, and debt patterns
• Work with the relational and political dimensions of money, including how systemic forces shape our sense of scarcity and refusal
• Begin to develop a living, embodied relationship with money that is grounded in clarity, agency, and care rather than shame or avoidance

This work can be done with a nickel or with a million dollars. What changes everything is not the amount, but the relationship. As we heal our money trauma and begin to meet money with curiosity rather than dread, something unexpected becomes possible: money as a partner, a resource that wants to take care of us as much as we are willing to take care of it.

Participants will leave with greater self-compassion around their money patterns and a renewed sense of agency in their relationship with financial life.

This is the alchemical work of turning lead to gold: not by accumulating more, but by turning towards and being with what already is.

Where?

The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).

When?

Starts: May 18, 2026
Ends: June 29, 2026
6 live sessions, weekly, skipping May 25, 2026
Day of Week: Monday
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:55 PM Pacific Time

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What You'll Learn

Week 1: Attachment and Money: Inviting Aliveness
Week 2: Avoidant Attachment: Understanding Dead Money
Week 3: Ambivalent Attachment: When Money Makes No Sense
Week 4: Disorganized Attachment: Healing Money Trauma
Week 5: Multidimensional Gifts of Money: Reading the Circuits
Week 6: The Real Live Relationship with Money: Security

Who is This Course For?

Anyone from total beginners to experienced resonance practitioners are welcome. This course also supports space holders and people who are interested in therapeutic and emotional session-work, including resonance partners, empathy buddies, therapists and social workers.

This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support

Assistant support is available during classes. There are three ways this happens:

• In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
• In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
• Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.

Cost

$270 Early Bird
$300 Regular Price

Scholarship Information

Partial scholarships may be available for this course. For more information, please write to help@sarahpeyton.com after May 11, 2026.

Please Note:

• Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
• This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
• This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.