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For many of us, Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer. We gather for barbecues, squeeze in a last trip to the lake, or prepare kids to head back to school. It’s a cul...

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems in Marriage: Building Financial Intimacy After Success

We’ve all heard the phrase: “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems.” It’s easy to laugh at when you’re hustling for the next promotion...

Why Professionals Need a Trauma-Informed Lens

If you’ve ever found yourself in a client meeting thinking, “Why are they reacting so strongly to this?” or “They seem stuck, and I don’t know how to hel...

What If Love and Money Was Trauma-Informed?

There’s a moment in many relationships, especially when money is involved, where one partner says, “I just don’t get why they’re acting like this,” and the...

One of the most common emotional undercurrents professionals witness in couples work, whether financial or therapeutic, is fear.

Sometimes it is spoken.
Often, it is not.

It may show up as one partn...

There’s a story I heard recently from a client, passed down from a sports psychologist talking about Emmitt Smith, the legendary NFL running back. Early in his career, someone kept telling him, "Don’t...

In our financial therapy work, there’s a moment we’ve come to recognize as sacred.

It often happens early on, maybe in the first or second session, when we begin unpacking someone’s money story. We’r...