How I Manifested $5000 When I Had Nothing Left

The story

Hey guys! Thanks so much for popping in to my lil corner of the internet. If you are new here, my name is [name] & I’m the Blogger behind this Substack & my website, [website]. This is where we talk about the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Personal development & all the Mindset Stuff.

The pic below is an updated pic of me. I am bound & determined to be as authentic as possible with my readers.

Since RA & 2020 on I have put on so much weight due to inflammation & not being able to exercise. I hate looking at myself now, but that’s something I have to work on.

Anyway, back to the post…

Why my story may help you: I’m going to share exactly what I did, what I believed & what happened. I’m going to show you how, when I shifted my mindset by using gratitude as a tool-everything else started shifting too.

Where to begin? Before 2020, I was living what I thought was a pretty good life. I was blogging, teaching others how to manifest, and everything was moving right along towards my goals.

I was THE most positive person.

I had been working on my mindset for years by that point.

I even got my diploma for Life Coaching. I’ve still got hours of training to go to get my main certificate.

I had made gratitude a daily practice. I was living what I taught.

- COVID hit the world

- Social Media became a polarizing place to be

- All that positivity gone in an instant after being on Twitter for a while

- Family & Friends died from COVID

- I got RA in 2021 (rheumatoid arthritis)

- Then a year of depression after that

It made me realize that I couldn’t do basic things that I had taken for granted all my life.

- Walking

- Using my hands

- Taking a shower

- Combing my hair

- So many things that should be easy were now hard for me.

My confidence was shot. I was so bloated & inflamed.

Just 5 short years ago, I was a slender & active person. Exercising & hiking.

I had put on so much weight.

The blog I had worked on for years.

All the hard work of building up “my little business” was gone.

I wasn’t in a good place. I wasn’t thinking positive. I was just trying to survive.

Not my circumstances or health.

Not my bank account.

Something shifted inside me first.

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What happened to me that everything started to change?

I got sick & tired of being sick & tired.

Have you ever felt like that?

Mind you, this is 2026. 5 years of dealing with all the life changes.

- Deaths

- Our world changing

- My health turned upside down

- My hands deformed & curled.

I thought back to how different my life used to be & all the work I had done to make my mindset strong.

I decided to start over because I knew what was possible when I intentionally shifted my mindset.

I started by making gratitude into a habit again.

I would say this over & over when I remembered to:

I am so happy & grateful that I am abundant in every way. Money flows to me easily & effortlessly.

I used what I had learned all those years ago to speak it into existence.

I let go of how I would receive it. I trusted that it would show up. And I forgot about it.

I had just restarted my gratitude practice two weeks prior.

Every day, when I remembered to, I would start by saying “thank you”.

I had been using the App: The Secret to start writing out my gratitudes & start saying affirmations again.

I was speaking abundance into existence every single day.

I wasn’t watching or waiting for it.

I was just PRACTICING.

My whole family was in shock & grieving.

He was a generous man who loved my mother.

And in his leaving- he made sure she would never have to worry again. At 81 yrs old, that gift was everything.

He left my mother a huge settlement & everything he had worked for his whole life.

And in her own generosity- she blessed my sisters & me with 5K each.

The money arrived completely unexpectedly in a way I would have never predicted or planned for.

I want to be clear about something because I think it matters. I didn’t manifest my brother’s death. I manifested abundance. It came wrapped in grief & through loss. It came through the generosity of a man who loved our mother so much that he made sure she was taken care of even after he was gone. I had to hold the sadness and the gratitude at the same time. Nobody tells you that sometimes your blessing and your heartbreak arrive together. But they can. And when that happens – you don’t have to choose between grieving and being grateful. You are allowed to feel both.

She was at the time worrying about money. And now, because of my brother’s love, she will never have to worry again.

That was an answered prayer – a manifestation of love.

Just that blessing on her life shifted something in me that I still can’t describe in words. The sadness- then the knowing that my mom will be financially secure the rest of her life.

It’s love.

It never does. I couldn’t have scripted this or even seen it coming.

I trusted in what I had used in the past.

I did my gratitudes daily, along with the affirmations. And I let it go…

That is how manifestation actually works. You don’t get to choose the how. You only get to choose the energy you bring every single day. And when you stay consistent – even when nothing is happening, even when life is hard, even when you’re grieving – the law matches your energy. It happens when you put out the energy (vibration of gratitude) & the law matches it. You don’t know when it will show up- so get in the habit of doing it daily.

When I got the money- I had a choice to make. I could use it to survive on, or I could use part of it to invest in my comeback.

Which one do you think I chose?

Something inside me- a nudge I was feeling- my INTUITION led me to restart & reclaim everything.

I took the chance to see if my old domain name was still available & it was.

I quickly bought [website] again. And started filling it up with posts.

But this time- with more experience & a deeper knowing of LIFE.

I’m not rebuilding my little business from ambition & wanting to make money. I’m building because this is my purpose. From this moment on, I will show up authentically- RA & all. I’m going to teach only what I know has worked for me.

I still have hard days. My life has totally changed. But I’m here & I’m still writing. Showing up. Every single day that I do that just proves my manifestation is working.

- Gratitude is the bridge.

It’s the easiest way that I have found to manifest anything.

Remember this quote from Oprah?

Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

You don’t have to feel abundant to practice gratitude. Just find one thing that you are grateful for. That one thing becomes the bridge between where you are & where you are going.

- Surrender is not giving up.

Letting go of my blog was not a failure. It was making room. Sometimes the universe needs you to put something down before it can hand you something better.

When you let go- you let go of the control of how it’s supposed to show up.

- The shift always happens on the inside first.

Nothing in my outer world changed before something in my inner world shifted.

The money didn’t create the new beginning – my decision to stay open and keep practicing created the conditions for the money to arrive.

- You cannot control the how – only the energy

My manifestation arrived through grief.

Through loss.

Through a channel nobody could have predicted.

That is not a flaw in the system – that IS the system.

Stay open. Stay consistent. Let the universe handle the delivery.

I don’t know what your version of this looks like. Maybe you’re manifesting money. Maybe you’re manifesting health or love or a fresh start or just the courage to try again. Whatever it is – I want you to know that it is possible. Not because I read it in a book. But because I lived it. In the middle of grief and illness and starting over I watched the universe show up for me in a way I never expected. And it will show up for you too. Start where you are. Use what you have. Stay grateful even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.