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When Fear Shows Up in the Room, What Every Money Professional Needs to Know couples therapists financial counselors financial planners financial therapists professionals Jul 08, 2025

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...

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Should We Share Our Financial Fears? The Hidden Power of What We Say to Ourselves and Each Other Jul 08, 2025

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...

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How to Be a Financial Therapist: Where Do We Begin? professionals Jun 30, 2025

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...

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The Healing Power of Tears: Why Crying Matters in Financial Therapy Jun 30, 2025

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...

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Breaking Free from Idealized Financial Standards: Finding Your Own Way to Wealth and Worth Jun 23, 2025

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...

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Introducing Our New Series: How to Be a Financial Therapist (The Healthy Love and Money Way) Jun 18, 2025

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...

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Reflections from the 2025 Financial Therapy Association Conference: A Community, A Calling, A Continuum of Growth Jun 16, 2025

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 ...

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What to Do When One Partner Wants Financial Therapy and the Other Doesn’t Jun 16, 2025

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...

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