Growing Up Poor: How Childhood Financial Trauma Affects Your Adult Money Story
I was in my thirties when I realized I was still living like I was poor. Not poor in reality—I was making decent money, had food in the fridge, could pay my bills. But poor in my mind. Poor in my nervous system. Poor in the automatic decisions I made every single day. I’d buy […]
Money Anxiety: Why Checking Your Bank Account Makes You Want to Throw Up
I used to go weeks without checking my bank account. I’d literally panic every time I thought about checking my bank balance. Not because I was organized and had everything under control. The opposite. I avoided it because looking at the numbers made me feel physically sick. My chest would tighten. My stomach would drop. […]
Money Mindset Blocks: How I Finally Broke Free from Financial Stress and the Belief That I Always Have to Struggle
I was making more money than I’d ever made in my life, and I was still broke. Not broke in the “I can barely afford groceries” way—although I’d been there too. Broke in the “where did all the money go?” way. The kind where you look at your bank account and feel sick because somehow, […]