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Financial Avoidance and Why the Envelope Stays Unopened behavioral finance financial anxiety financial planning for women financial trauma money patterns trauma-informed planning Oct 05, 2026

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...

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When the Money Story Was Never the Whole Story behavioral finance divorce divorce finances financial anxiety financial trauma trauma-informed planning women in transition Aug 31, 2026

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...

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It's not failing, it's a pivot. divorce divorce finances estate administration financial anxiety Apr 27, 2026

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...

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What Financial Trauma Actually Looks Like behavioral finance financial anxiety financial planning for women financial trauma money patterns trauma-informed planning Apr 13, 2026

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...

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