Healthy Love and Money Blog
Develop intimacy and trust with your partner and in your finances
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...
Where do we begin?
I take a deep breath as I think about how to begin this post, this question, this journey. How do you become a financial therapist? Even after more than a decade of practicing fina...
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...
I was in a coffee shop when it hit me.
Just like airbrushed models on magazine covers, there are airbrushed versions of financial success we carry around in our heads, polished, curated, and often ent...
At Healthy Love and Money, we believe financial planning and therapy should never be just about the numbers. It’s about people, how they feel, how they relate, and how they heal in the presence of mon...
There’s a moment at every great conference when you look around and realize—this isn’t just an event. It’s a homecoming.
This year’s Financial Therapy Association Conference felt different. Not just ...
You finally worked up the courage to bring it up:
"Hey… I've been thinking about doing financial therapy together."
Cue the long pause.
Your partner looks at you sideways and says, "Why? Are we that b...
