Healthy Love and Money Blog
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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...
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...
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...
