Welcome back to The Wholeself Podcast™, your safe space where faith and neuroscience meet to restore your mind, body, spirit, and soul—guiding you home to your Wholeself™ and the limitless life you were always meant to live.
I’m your host, Annette Marie.
And today’s episode?
It’s personal.
It’s vulnerable.
And it might speak directly to a part of you that’s been quietly struggling...
with what I call the spirit of just enough.
This is for anyone who’s been praying for more—
More peace.
More space.
More financial ease.
More expansion.
Yet somehow, you keep circling the same mountain... of just enough.
For so long, if you had asked me what I truly wanted, I would’ve said:
Overflow.
Abundance.
Breakthrough.
Expansion.
But the truth?
I was addicted... to just enough.
Just enough to pay the bills.
Just enough to survive.
Just enough to save face.
Even when deep down—I wasn’t fine at all.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had normalized the struggle loop.
That dense, chaotic energy became familiar—almost comforting.
Unknowingly, I craved the drama of pulling myself out of one crisis after another.
That hustle? That tension? It mirrored the rhythm of the home I grew up in.
I was raised by a single teenage mother.
An only child.
My after-school routine was pretty simple:
Come home to an empty apartment, do my chores, finish my homework, fix myself an easy-to-cook meal—usually Hamburger Helper or mac and cheese from the blue box—
and then off to bed.
My mom worked two jobs just to keep us going. She was fiercely independent—because she had to be.
And so, I became fiercely independent too. Strong, resourceful, hyper-capable—because I had to be.
I learned early that needing less made me worthy.
Provision felt limited, like a luxury I didn’t get to ask for.
And the spiritual messaging I received?
Only made it worse.
I was born in a time where being a child out of wedlock meant excommunication.
My mom reminded me often that she was cast out of the church for having me.
When God was mentioned, He was the punisher. The angry father figure.
Someone you feared, not someone you trusted.
It wasn’t until I was 24 that I chose baptism—not out of fear, but from finally encountering the truth of who God really is.
Not wrathful.
Not withholding.
But abundant.
The source of provision—in all ways, always.
And yet—even with that revelation—healing didn’t happen overnight.
Because the identity I had built... didn’t just vanish.
It had roots.
This is something I see in my clients too:
That deep doubt that asks, “Does God really want me to thrive?”
“Am I even allowed to receive overflow?”
I get it.
Because the hesitation doesn’t just come from religious conditioning.
It comes from trauma.
From survival patterns.
From being told—explicitly or implicitly—that asking for more is selfish, unrealistic, or unsafe.
But hear me clearly:
Struggle was never part of God's original design.
Let’s go back to Genesis.
Adam and Eve had an entire garden of provision—for just the two of them.
Psalm 23 says, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
It doesn’t say “just enough to get by.”
It says “I lack nothing.”
And when Peter obeyed Jesus and cast his net?
The boat nearly sank with the overflow.
Overflow is the pattern of God’s provision.
But most of us don’t feel safe receiving it.
Why?
Because our nervous systems are still wired for just enough.
Even when we love God.
Even when we’re walking in faith.
Even when we’re trying so hard.
We unconsciously reject the very blessings in front of us because our bodies associate overflow with danger, with loss of control, or with abandonment.
That’s why I now believe with every cell in my body:
“Enough” must be the floor, not the ceiling.
The tail and not the head.
But to make that shift?
We have to get raw and radically honest with ourselves.
We have to ask:
•Who am I being?
•What am I identifying with?
•What am I serving?
Here’s where you name it, tame it—and like any other addiction, you don’t wean off of it.
You make the choice. And you leave it.
Yes, this may feel sticky to name.
But the reality is—we don’t just live in lack.
We become it.
We identify as it.
The broke one.
The one who does it all alone.
The outsider.
The one who has to work twice as hard.
But none of that is who you are.
That’s who you became to survive.
And the truth is: you can’t serve two masters.
You can’t create overflow while walking in a poverty mindset.
Here’s where you stand firm in your choice.
You walk in faith by embodying a new identity, claiming the opposite.
This is polarity.
This is embodied transformation.
You do it even when it feels unrealistic.
Even when your circumstances haven’t changed... yet.
Here’s where lack turns into provision.
Debt becomes freedom.
Chaos becomes calm.
Victimhood becomes vision.
Your old story?
It becomes your strategy.
And your struggle?
It becomes your strength—your legacy.
Because the safer you begin to feel, the more you'll choose devotion over drama—
You’ll learn to respond instead of react.
And you’ll begin to realize that the scream of drama was never your true home.
You are safe now—in the sovereignty and power of a whisper.
I want to finish up this episode by grounding all this with a few key insights to help you start shifting your relationship to just enough:
1. Recognizing and challenging limiting beliefs.
Understand that the just enough mentality often stems from childhood experiences and negative messaging around self-worth.
Ask yourself: Who modeled this for me? When did I learn that abundance was unrealistic? Whose voice taught me to expect less?
Awareness is your first act of spiritual warfare.
2. Reframe your relationship with God.
Move from a fear-based perspective to one of provision and abundance.
God is not the God of punishment. He is not testing you with lack.
He is your source. Your provider. Your overflow.
Let that become your truth—even if it feels unfamiliar at first.
3. Heal the body—not just the mindset.
Doing the emotional work means identifying the narratives you’ve internalized about money, worth, and struggle—
while creating nervous system safety for ease and rest.
Practice allowing yourself to receive, even in small ways.
Because you don’t manifest overflow from a dysregulated body.
4. Embrace the concept of overflow.
Life is not meant to be barely sufficient.
When you combine faith with embodied healing, something sacred happens:
Provision stops being a performance.
It becomes a state where God’s Word echoes true.
5. Practice self-compassion.
Recognize that your worth is not determined by external circumstances or others' opinions.
You are inherently deserving of more than just enough.
And in becoming, you are being called into more.
So let this be your gentle invitation:
You were not created to live scared.
You were created to live sacred.
And just enough is no longer your home.
If today’s episode stirred something inside of you,
If you’re ready to integrate faith, rewire your nervous system, and step into God’s aligned overflow then the Sacred Wealth Blueprint™ is your next step.
It’s not just a workbook.
It’s a recalibration for the whole self.
You can begin your journey at:
👉 www.annettemarie.life/sacred-wealth-blueprint
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for doing this brave work.
And thank you for choosing to live sacred.
I’ll see you in the next episode.
Be blessed.
—Annette Marie
