#125 Learning to Trust Provision When Money Feels Tight

The Recalibration

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When money feels scarce, fear rises. But scarcity isn’t about math — it’s about meaning. Discover how recalibration turns striving into trust and provision into peace.

When money feels tight, it’s easy to believe the fear is about numbers. But the truth is, scarcity doesn’t begin in your wallet — it begins in your story.

For high-capacity humans, tight seasons often trigger more than financial pressure. They expose the deeper identity question: Am I safe? Am I enough? Can I trust that provision will come?

Here’s why: when resources dip, your nervous system goes into survival mode. It braces, scans for collapse, and ties safety to predictability. Even when provision arrives, your body can stay in a state of “financial shock” — rehearsing yesterday’s threats in today’s reality.

That’s why you can still feel unsafe even when the check clears.

Through the ILR lens, the issue isn’t ultimately the math — it’s the meaning. Scarcity reveals what story you believe about your Source, and whether you can trust. This isn’t mindset work or positive thinking — it’s identity-level recalibration, the tool that makes every other tool finally work.

In this episode of The Recalibration, Julie Holly shares her own story of walking away from stability to follow the “yellow brick road” of ILR, even when it looked financially irresponsible. She also unpacks the remarkable faith of George Müller, who cared for more than 10,000 orphans without ever asking for money — and whose anchored trust reframes what it means to live provision from alignment, not striving.

You’ll discover:

Why scarcity is more about identity than accounts
How financial “shock” keeps you bracing even when provision arrives
Why tight seasons expose the story you believe about safety and Source
Why provision follows alignment, not striving
A faith-filled example from George Müller that anchors trust over control

Today’s Micro Recalibration:
“What would change if I trusted the Source more than the numbers?”

If you’ve ever lived with financial fear — even in abundance — this episode will give you the language, perspective, and recalibration you need to stop striving and start trusting.

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