THE BLOG: At the Threshold
There is an envelope on the counter. It has been there for eleven days. You know approximately what is in it. You walk past it several times a day, and each time you notice it, and each time you do no...
Some women arrive at a financial transition and discover, in the middle of it, that the financial life they thought they had was partly fiction.
A credit line neither of you discussed. A retirement a...
She arrives in my office with a folder of tax returns, a couple of statements she found in a desk drawer, and an apology already forming on her lips.
"I should know more about this."
"I feel embarrassed...
Financial trauma is not the same as being bad with money. That distinction matters more than most people realize.
Being bad with money is a skills gap. Financial trauma is a response pattern rooted i...