The Receiving Edge: Intimacy and Money for a Nourishing Life

The Receiving Edge is an online healing workshop on intimacy, money and desire, designed for women, trans and nonbinary people who have built lives around performance and competence and are ready to live from desire instead. It runs as a small cohort of up to 15 people, combining two live group video calls with two private coaching sessions.

It is led by Kelly Campbell, a somatic intimacy coach, and Candis Fox, a financial behaviorist. The premise is that money and intimacy are two sides of the same door: the way you handle a compliment and the way you handle an invoice are often the same. This is not a budgeting program, a manifestation practice or therapy. It is an embodied exploration of the gap between what you want, what you have, and what you feel okay receiving.

What to Expect

The work moves through four capacities. You begin by recognizing what is actually available to you, including what you routinely disqualify. Then you look at desire, and what produces a real yes as opposed to a reasonable one. From there the group explores what makes that yes hard to hold, where shame, guilt, politeness, goodness and belonging override your ability to receive. Finally you practice integrating: noticing the edge while you are standing on it and choosing differently in real time.

The two group calls each run two hours, 1 to 3 PM Eastern (10 AM to 12 PM Pacific). The first call opens with explicit agreements on confidentiality and consent before anything else happens. It then moves into opt-in frameworks, embodied practices, and small and large group sharing. The second call, four weeks later, centers on group processing, integration, and a practice for catching the pattern as it happens.

Between the calls, you have one private session with Kelly on intimacy and desire and one with Candis on worth and money. There is also one optional practice involving self-directed pleasure, done alone on your own time, which you can skip entirely. Nothing sexual happens on the calls: no nudity, no partner work, and no requirement to talk about your sex life.

You set your own level of disclosure, and you can change it mid-sentence. Much of the personal work happens in your own life and in the private sessions rather than in the group.

About Kelly Campbell

Kelly Campbell (they/them) is a somatic intimacy coach, eros coach for leaders, sacred intimate and certified cuddle therapist based in New York's Lower Hudson Valley. They are a Wheel of Consent-trained practitioner and retreat facilitator, and the author of HEAL to LEAD: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing (Wiley, 2024). Their work centers on women, survivors of sexual assault, and queer, trans and nonbinary people who want to reclaim voice, choice and pleasure. Their stated mission is to bring more pleasure to healing. In this workshop they bring their focus on desire, intimacy, consent and boundaries.

About Candis Fox

Candis Fox (any pronouns) is a Financial Wellness and Integrity Coach, consultant and speaker based in Tacoma, Washington. They combine more than ten years in cognitive and behavioral science with a master's in education to help clients change their relationship to money. In this workshop they focus on worth, money, power and enoughness.

Before You Go

The workshop suits people who are already self-aware and have done personal development work, but find that insight has not changed their behavior. You do not need to have money problems; it is meant for people whose competence has solved problems yet has not produced a nourishing life. Nothing requires a partner, and all relationship structures are welcome. The workshop is held in English.

Included are both live group calls, the private session with Kelly, the private session with Candis, and the opt-in embodied practices and guided group processing. Both group calls are required, since the container depends on trust. The sessions are not recorded. Individual therapy, clinical support, and budgeting or debt-management planning are not part of the offering.

Applicants are invited to a Zoom conversation with both facilitators to confirm fit. Financial consideration is available for those who need it.