Is money a source of self-confidence or personal empowerment for you? A source of joy, ease, or creativity?
If your relationship with it took the form of a flesh and blood relationship, would you be tying the proverbial knot with it and looking forward to a lifetime of growth, comfort, and security?
Or …
Does money – even the mere topic of it – feel like something you want to avoid? Like, really avoid.
When credit card bills come in the mail, do you stuff them in the junk drawer? Do you avoid looking at your bank balance or retirement situation? Does the topic make you uncomfortable?
Do you sometimes feel like you can talk to your girlfriends, your S.O., or even your therapist about everything else *aside* from your money issues?
If your relationship with it took the form of a flesh and blood relationship, would you basically beg it to seek out couples counseling with you?
(Alright, are you cringing and wanting to click away after even reading these intro sentences?)
If so, that’s okay. Really. These are evocative and big questions that might bring up anxiety for a lot of people. Because let’s face it: Money is a hot button topic.
And not only that, as a psychotherapist I actually believe that money is a therapeutic topic.
Meaning that what you personally believe and feel about money and how money impacts your life is an important topic that, when explored safely and skillfully, can therapeutically reveal so much about you and the larger patterns that you may need to pay attention to for your own personal growth.
But let’s face it: money – much like the topics of sex, addiction, or estrangements within families – is one of those hot button, typically shame-laced topics that’s historically super under-discussed in public settings.
And yet, I think, most of us yearn to talk about money and our relationship to it. And frankly I think we *have* to talk about money more as part of our individual healing and personal growth journeys.
So in today’s blog post I want to start a transformative, healing conversation with you about it. I’ll explain how and why our money beliefs – like any of our life beliefs – likely got formed, and then provide you with a set of inquiries designed to help deepen your awareness about your relationship with money, how these money patterns might be echoed across other areas of your life, and help you get curious about what it might take to challenge, transform, and heal your relationship with money.
So if you’re interested in deepening your awareness about your relationship with money, keep reading…
Remember, the way in through one thing is the way into many things.
The way in through one thing is the way into many things. So what does this mean?
