What Inner Prosperity Really Looks Like
In my years as a healing practitioner, I've witnessed countless moments where true prosperity reveals itself—not in bank accounts or material accumulations, but in the sacred shifts that happen when someone chooses to trust their own light. Here are some spiritual themes I've noticed over the years, truths that have quietly shaped my own path and now guide my work in Prosperity Coaching.
Recently, I sat with a client who was navigating loss while simultaneously discovering her spiritual gifts. What unfolded in our session reminded me of these deeper truths about prosperity, and I've been thinking about it ever since.
When Words Become Spells
"Life and death lies in the power of the tongue," I found myself saying as we explored how she was beginning to speak differently about her circumstances. It's funny how sometimes the exact words you need just come through you, you know?
Where once there had been only focus on what was wrong, she was now consciously choosing to call in life—to speak possibility into existence even while holding grief. She told me about someone she knew facing death who decided, "I'm just going to choose to find the good in my day, stay positive."
Here was someone at the end of life demonstrating what I think might be the ultimate spiritual wealth—joy chosen consciously, not dependent on circumstances. This is what keeps striking me about inner prosperity: we always have choice in how we relate to our experiences. Not that toxic positivity stuff, but real power to choose life-affirming perspectives as practice.
The Gift the World Gets Wrong
There was this moment when she was describing how deeply she feels everything—energies, emotions, the whole weight of what's happening around her. I kept witnessing her sensitivity throughout our conversation, and I found myself thinking about how much the world gets this completely backwards.
Society teaches us that sensitivity is too much, that we should toughen up, feel less. But watching her, I could see it so clearly: "Trust and know that your sensitivity is a gift. It is a superpower."
When we flip what the world calls weakness and recognize it as spiritual capacity, everything changes. Suddenly sensitivity becomes this incredible ability to discern, to feel deeply, to connect authentically. It becomes our greatest asset instead of something to hide or fix.
Learning to Let Go (Again)
One of the most powerful moments, came when she described releasing some unfulfilling relationships. Instead of that scarcity mindset of "I'm supposed to have X amount of friends, so I gotta hold on, even though it's unfulfilling," she just... let go.
"What do we do with the dead leaves on plants?" I asked her. "Cut them off, right? So new growth can happen. The fact that you were able to let that go and not hold on, that's where the true abundance comes in."
I keep coming back to this plant metaphor because it's so simple but so profound. This is prosperity practice in real time—releasing what no longer serves us, trusting that the universe will fill the space with something more aligned. Moving from scarcity thinking to abundance consciousness, one relationship at a time.
The Scariest Thing: Our Light
As we were wrapping up, I shared one the infamous Marianne Williamson quote with her: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."
I watched recognition dawn in her eyes, and honestly, it gave me chills. She'd gotten so comfortable living in the darkness, in that familiar territory of struggle and pain. The real question wasn't even about healing her wounds anymore—it was about whether she was ready to step into her light.
"Who would you be?" I asked gently. "What would it be like to allow this identity to be laid to rest?"
Sometimes I think our greatest spiritual work isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about having the courage to embody our wholeness. That's terrifying in a completely different way.
The Ultimate Freedom
Near the end, she said something that's been echoing in my mind: "I just want to be able to be 100% myself and not worry about how I'm being perceived." This is it—the heart of inner prosperity. The ability to show up authentically, to find spaces and relationships where performance isn't required, where we can simply be. I honestly can't think of any wealth greater than this kind of freedom.
This is the essence of what it means to be prosperous. It's about trusting our spiritual gifts instead of dismissing them. Choosing life-affirming perspectives as conscious practice, even when it's hard. Releasing what no longer serves with faith in what's coming. Opening to spiritual guidance through dreams and intuition. Embracing our sensitivity as superpower, not weakness. Allowing authentic self-expression without apology. Recognizing grief and loss as portals for growth. It's the kind that recognizes our deep interconnection with spirit, with ancestors, with the earth itself. The kind that understands we are already whole, already abundant, already blessed.
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About the Author:
Joy Long is a mother, writer, healing artist, ecotherapist and prosperity guide devoted to remembering wholeness in a world shaped by fragmentation. She is the founder of Whole with Joy, a healing movement rooted in embodiment, Earth wisdom, and joy.
Joy’s journey has moved through community mental health, private practice, ecotherapy, movement, ritual, and creative expression. It has also been shaped by years of travel and learning across the African diaspora, the Americas, and other land-based cultures, where the wisdom of place, the centrality of rhythm and movement, and ancestral ways of knowing deepened her understanding of what it means to live in right relationship with self, community, and Earth. Motherhood, ancestral memory, and a lifelong relationship with nature continue to shape both her work and her way of being.
Rooted in earth-based spirituality, somatic healing, attachment healing, and Black feminist and eco-womanist traditions, Joy creates spaces for people to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the living world. Through individual prosperity work, organizational wellness consulting, and community healing offerings, her work invites a remembering: that prosperity is not something we earn, but something we embody when we return home to who we are together, with dignity, pleasure, and power.