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How Couples Can Make Confident Money Decisions By Balancing Data, Emotions and Intuition couples and money data emotions feelings financial intimacy intuition May 18, 2023

Let’s take a both and approach.

All he does is use spreadsheets to explain why we will be okay Danielle exasperately explains. She is so tired of being spreadsheeted. For Nathan, spreadsheets...

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Healing Painful Memories of Parents and Fostering Financial Intimacy attachment styles emotions financial empathy financial intimacy trauma trauma healing Aug 25, 2022

Do you have attachment wounds? They are the emotional and relational scars that form in childhood from our relationships with our caregivers when they do not have to ability to recognize or respond...

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Can Brain Science Helps Us Achieve Financial Intimacy? brains emotions financial communication financial decision-making financial empathy financial intimacy Jul 07, 2022

What does the brain have to do with financial intimacy? Much more than you might imagine. 

 

It is a reciprocal relationship. Let me introduce you to a wonderful area of science called...

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How To Find Common Ground When Your Partner Seems Irrational With Money communication emotions financial empathy Jan 20, 2022

Do you feel that your partner's habits with money are irrational?

This is all too common in intimate relationships. Especially when two partners have different spending styles like when one is a...

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Top 6 Defense Mechanisms Impacting Your Relationship And Finances defense mechanisms emotions Dec 09, 2021

Defense mechanisms are the way that we try to psychologically protect ourselves from things that seem overwhelming or threatening. 

This can be anything from being confronted with a big loss,...

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Going Home For The Holidays: Financial Intimacy Style emotions relationships Dec 01, 2021

It’s that time of year where we think about being with our families and about the family that we do not have. 

It can be both a joyful and sorrowful time of year. 

The holidays...

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3 Internal Aspects of Money Beliefs emotions money beliefs Oct 01, 2021

Money beliefs are the underlying beliefs you have about money. 

Everyone has ingrained beliefs about money that can inevitably be limiting. However, these beliefs can often be invisible and...

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Financial Well-being and Your Emotions, What You Need To Know emotions financial well-being Oct 20, 2020

          As a financial therapist, I want to educate my clients on what financial wellbeing is, and what may be blocking them from reaching their financial goals....

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