Can You Heal Your Relationship with Money?
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist The answer is yes! Okay, but what does that mean? How do you heal your relationship with money? In my approach to financial therapy, I help clients in this process all the time — and as a result, they experience healing and change. Are you hoping to heal your…
Read MoreCompassionate Curiosity: Can It Really Make a Difference?
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist Have you heard me talk about compassionate curiosity yet? My clients hear me say this phrase a lot. At first, their body language reflects a response like, “Yeah, that sounds pretty and sweet, but I can’t be kind to myself with money, or I will just make things worse!”…
Read MoreThe Impact of Your Money Mindset on Your Financial Success
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist Who is driving your money bus: you or your mindset? What is a mindset? It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as “a mental attitude or inclination, a fixed state of mind” and by Wikipedia as “a mindset is an established set of attitudes of a person.” I, however, define it as…
Read MoreWhat the Heck is Couples Financial Therapy?!
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist Did you check out the recent This is Uncomfortable podcast episode? In this episode, I was asked to help a couple struggling with a recurring money conflict. We explored how to get “unstuck” and discussed new ways to approach money topics. To start, the couple named their “pain point”:…
Read MoreHow Financial Therapy Can Change Your Life
by Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist Many people recognize their struggles with money management or the negative feelings they associate with spending and saving, but they don’t know how to seek help. That’s where financial therapy comes in! What Is Financial Therapy? You may be wondering, “What exactly is financial therapy?” A relatively new field…
Read MoreThe Role of Financial Therapist on Your Financial A-Team
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist I’m thrilled to share my recent interview with The Pledgettes, a community of women who takes an active role in their finances in an effort to close the gender wealth gap. They focus on making value-aligned decisions towards individual financial goals — because when more women take individual action…
Read MoreMeeting Your Money Milestones
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist As we enter the last quarter of the year (!), it’s important for small business owners to get grounded in their own numbers and identify their money milestones. Maybe you want to wrap up a project and ensure that you have time for a new one come January. Maybe…
Read MoreHow Financial Therapy Supports Small Business Success
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist I’ve been a small business owner since 2014, and at the start, I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into. As a mental health therapist and serial entrepreneur, I take pride in my ability to create and help others to heal and grow. Yet, like so many…
Read MoreThe Intersection of Money and Milkshakes
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist What do money and milkshakes have in common? They both can give you a brain freeze! They can also seem to bring you pain and suffering when they feel out of balance. You may have struggled at times to understand why you repeat things. Why you return to the…
Read Morethe power of compassionate curiosity
I saw a meme recently with a gal wistfully looking out the window, the caption reading “I long for precedented times.” I smiled; I get it, that longing for the predictable. The phrase “unprecedented times” keeps popping up for me as I ponder the events that will define 2020 for all of us. Events –…
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