How do practitioners build sustainable livelihoods without compromising integrity, access, or care?
Money and spirituality have long held a complicated relationship, particularly for practitioners trying to offer their work ethically within a capitalist system. In this episode of the Professional Practice Series, host Shunda Jenkins sits down with Victoria Watkins to explore abundance through an anti-capitalist lens and examine how spiritual professionals can rethink value, exchange, and sustainability.
Together, they explore how dominant economic models shape healer burnout, scarcity thinking, and distorted ideas of success. The conversation looks at what ethical abundance can actually look like in practice, including how to charge for spiritual work without commodifying healing or limiting access, and how to confront internalised narratives around worth, “charging for spirit,” and spiritual poverty. A central theme of this episode is right relationship with resources.
Shunda and Victoria discuss how competition, urgency, and branding culture can undermine service, and how practitioners can instead centre reciprocity, justice, and collective wellbeing. The conversation also explores practical alternatives such as sliding scales, community exchange, redistribution practices, and values-aligned pricing models. Rather than framing abundance as accumulation, this episode reframes prosperity as sustainability, liberation, and shared care.
It offers grounded insight for practitioners seeking to align income generation with their spiritual principles while building practices that support both the healer and the communities they serve.
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Victoria Watkins is an artist, reader, and witch specialising in practical magic and abundance work. After navigating her own financial struggles, Victoria now supports others in the spiritual community in rethinking their relationship with money, wealth, and sustainability. Her work centres grounded, accessible approaches to abundance that resist extraction and prioritise integrity. When she’s not running her small business, Victoria enjoys knitting, playing games, and cuddling her cats.
Shunda Jenkins is a holistic practitioner certified in sound, meditation, energy healing modalities, and breathwork techniques. She has been studying holistic practices since 2010, when she began her own healing journey. As the owner of Bloom Wellness Studio LLC, Shunda takes a holistic approach to healing, recognising that the body is layered — physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual. She believes that with the right tools, individuals can cultivate self-healing, balance, and sustainable wellbeing.
The Professional Practice Series is a Critical Mass offering focused on the practical, ethical, and relational realities of building a sustainable healing practice. Each episode features in-depth conversations with experienced practitioners and professionals, offering grounded insight into boundaries, communication, integrity, and long-term practice development.
