When I am super honest I tried to do all those things that we were taught we should do. I just failed at them, and there was so much shame that I carried around that.
All in Healing Ancestral Money Trauma
When I am super honest I tried to do all those things that we were taught we should do. I just failed at them, and there was so much shame that I carried around that.
I went to vipassana when I was on the brink of taking my life. The only reason I didn't was because I went to an elderly tarot card reader, by the name of Raymond, at the Tremont Tea Room (in Boston, MA), who told me to hold on because in March (of 2011) I would go to a retreat that would change my life.
I LOVE how soo many of my clients talk about me giving non-conventional financial advise and how their lives wildly change from that.
If someone grew up in a household where they were constantly criticized, verbally or emotionally attacked or beaten for being wrong or making mistakes, they will learn to defend themselves by never claiming responsibility for mistakes they made because they are scared of the punishment associated with making mistakes.
There's this insidious belief that people misuse money because they didn't go to school and only people with no university degrees are in debt.
Or that people are poor because they are lazy.
There's something really scary and insidious about the old/current system that teaches us that the only way to make money is to work hard and that people are poor because they don't work hard enough.