Financial Sobriety: A Series of Personal Essays
Shame and limiting beliefs, systemic and familial cycles, unspoken agreements and relationship dynamics, unhelpful consumption patterns and self-sabotage.
There were exactly two times in my life when I felt free from dread over money and not having enough of it. The first stretched from infancy through age 4 or 5, when the fears and screams of my parents surfaced into my consciousness. The second was in 2013, when I was in my late thirties and living in south Florida.
I’d moved there and in with my partner…