Currency Is Current: Why Investing in Health Isn’t Just Spending
Written by Sarah Parkins. Published July 28, 2025
Currency, Energy & Worth: What Investing in Health Really Means
If you’ve ever hesitated to spend money on your health - or questioned whether something is “worth it” - this post offers a different lens.
Whether you're a business owner setting rates, a professional negotiating a salary, or someone navigating personal well-being decisions, one thing is always true: How you think about money is tied to what you think about value.
And how you value health reflects what you believe about energy, worth, and longevity.
In this piece, we explore:
Why money is never just a number - it’s energy in motion, it’s a current
How investing in health relates to personal and professional self-worth
The patterns in spending that reveal deeper beliefs
And a practical way to audit your relationship with money and well-being
This isn’t about financial advice. It’s an invitation to rethink what “costs” us - and what sustains us.
Currency Is Current
The word currency shares its root with current - as in flow, movement, energy in motion.
When money moves - whether through an investment in health or a paycheck for meaningful work - it creates momentum.
It isn’t stagnant, and it isn’t just about accumulation. It’s about alignment and exchange.
We move money toward what we value. And what we value, we tend to protect, nurture, and sustain.
If we say health is a priority but only ever spend on external obligations, it’s worth pausing to ask:
Is my current (my energy, my money) flowing where I want it to?
Money Mirrors Beliefs About Worth
Think about what you’re willing to accept as a salary, or how you’ve approached compensation negotiations in the past.
Have you ever hesitated to ask for more - even when you knew you brought value? Have you pushed for more from a competitive-ego driven edge before evaluating what you assess as value?
Now think about the last time you considered investing in your own well-being. Did it feel like a stretch, an indulgence, or a “non-essential”?
Or did it feel like a non-negotiable - a wise move toward vitality, clarity, and long-term sustainability?
These decisions are often connected.
Many professionals and business owners under-ask and under-spend when it comes to themselves. And both are symptoms of the same question underneath:
Am I worth it?
Health Is an Asset - Not an Expense
It’s easy to categorize wellness as an “extra” - something to fund only after everything else is covered. But that lens is backwards.
When you invest in your health, you’re not draining resources - you’re building them.
More clarity, more capacity, more creativity, more stability. Health returns on investment in the most tangible ways.
If you’re self-employed, better health means better productivity, clearer decision-making, and a nervous system that can hold more growth without burning out.
If you’re employed, it means more presence, better boundaries, and likely fewer days lost to fatigue, illness, or burnout.
It doesn’t mean perfection - it means resourcing the system that carries you through everything else.
A Simple Exercise: Follow the Flow
Pull up a recent month’s bank statement. Take a highlighter and scan through three categories:
Essentials: Rent, utilities, transport, groceries
Extras: Subscriptions, takeout, eating out, entertainment, clothing, personal care
Health Investments: Wellness support, supplements, therapy, movement, nourishing experiences, regenerative travel
Notice:
What gets funded automatically?
What feels easy to spend on?
What gets delayed, debated, or deprioritized?
Calculate the percentages in each category and assess if this feels true to what you really want?
Most people don’t realize how much they spend reactively (after something breaks), versus proactively (to prevent depletion and sustain well-being). This audit isn’t about shame or guilt - it’s about insight. Let your money show you what matters and what you value - and then decide if that aligns.
Health Is the Infrastructure of Everything Else
If the system carrying your ideas, your work, your leadership, and your relationships is overloaded, undernourished, or out of sync - everything else suffers.
You don’t need luxury treatments or green juice to prove you're investing in health. You need awareness. And intention.
Sometimes investing means paying for the support you’ve been delaying.
Sometimes it means saying no to the third trip or the next training because what your body needs is stillness, integration, and better sleep.
Sometimes it’s not about spending at all - but redirecting your current toward nourishment, connection, and nervous system safety.
Whatever form it takes, investing in health is always a bet on your future self. And your future capacity.
Closing Thought
If you’ve been on the edge of making a decision about your well-being - wondering if it’s “too much” or if “now is the right time” - pause.
Ask:
What would it mean to trust that resourcing myself creates more, not less?
What would change if I believed that investing in my health is productive?
What if by investing the ROI will be exponential in returns for my health, well-being, personal and professional life?
Whether you're leading a business, raising a family, holding space for others, or quietly rebuilding your energy after a crisis or emotional experience - your health isn’t separate from the rest of your life.
It is the infrastructure. The currency. The current.
Let it flow in the direction of what sustains you.
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