All tagged emotional issues about money
I’ve seen people talk about how anger is not the answer and how Black people should respond with love to every act of hatred.
The issue with saying anger is wrong and love is the answer is that it assumes that humans are one dimensional - that a human being cannot feel deep anger and love at the same time.
One of the things I do in my work is help people feel safe in their bodies. I look at how trauma affects our sense of safety, how that affects our nervous systems and in turn affects our financial behavior and holds us back from expanding.
When I started on my personal finance journey, everyone told me to do affirmations and visualization and that everything would shift when I did this.
Yet something interesting happened in my world – the more I affirmed, the worse I felt and the more critical and negative I became towards myself...
I woke up this morning, looked myself in the mirror and wondered who this woman is and just marveled at how far I have come within myself and my own skin.
I marveled at the notion that I am making this body home and with it, accepting so much of me and my imperfections.
When we hate money, we give money power over us. All that energy spent hating money, blocking money and blocking ourselves from going after our dreams because we could make money or need money, is so exhausting.
We go through financial traumas in our families and because we’re too young to process all that’s happened, we blame money and we turn money into the enemy…
