The Emotion Behind Money

The Emotion Behind Money is laced throughout with engaging and relatable anecdotes from the author's personal experiences, from childhood to present, and from the examples of others. Nonjudgmental and empathetic, Ms. Murphy Casserly's voice is warm and engaging. Genuinely interested in the reader's financial well-being, she clearly has the gift of natural insight, and can read people and their monetary situations instantly. In the intake or "discovery" process, she explains, "you have to lead people to uncover the emotional numbers first, and then get to the tactical or financial numbers. Once you have clarity about your personal mission, vision, values and goals and what emotions are triggered underneath, you can begin to get into the hard-core financial planning details that involve your core assets and liabilities, and use these as a launching pad to create a vibrant new relationship to money that will take you where you want and need to go for the rest of your life." Book jacket.

Would you like access to the insight that has literally turned the financial industry upside down? It's the notion that we each have specific emotions, or emotional patterns, attached to money that were imprinted on us before we even had a choice to have a checking account. Whether you personally recognize this or not, today those emotions impact every financial decision you face. They are responsible for how you make money and how you keep it, or whether, as is often the case, it seems to go out the door faster than it comes in. Amazingly, those feelings are not just fleeting reactions; they actually influence how much money you'll make and amass throughout your entire life! The purpose of this book is to help you recognize your emotions behind money, and likewise help you discover healthier ways to respond to those feelings. Through everyday language, lively anecdotes, and engaging exercises it will: - Help you see your life and your money through a different lens; - Empower you to align your financial destiny by living from the inside out; - Teach you how to discover and define what you truly desire to live abundantly.

Are you tired of feeling as if your finances control your life? Are you ready to make peace with money once and for all? In the nine years since I started my wealth management practice, I've guided thousands of people through the process of financial healing. I can tell you without reservation that healing your relationship with money will illuminate the path to financial abundance and inner peace. By reading my book The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth from the Inside Out and completing the exercises in this workbook, you will finally process the emotions you associate with money and discover how to create harmony and balance in every aspect of your life. My book and this workbook guide you through each step of the process toward financial health. The first step is to unplug from the outside world and focus inward, on your authentic self and the Inner Wealth you naturally possess. The second step is to define your dreams, desires and passions, so that you know what you really want out of life. Finally, you must create a Personal Navigation Route. This plan will get you from where you are to where you want to go. And I'll be with you every step of the way. Before we begin, I encourage you to acknowledge your inner critic-you know, the little voice that insists your dreams are silly and your emotions unwarranted. As you read The Emotion Behind Money and complete the pages in this workbook, your inner critic is bound to pop up from time to time, insisting that you're incapable of solving your money problems. Make a habit of countering any critical thoughts you might have with supportive statements, such as, "Wow, I've spent so many years feeling this way. No wonder money issues are so painful for me," or "I'm choosing to think about this issue in a new way this time." Positive thoughts like these help heal the emotional wounds that prevent us from living the lives we really want. The exercises in this workbook move chronologically through my book The Emotion Behind Money. Some of the workbook pages correspond directly with exercises in the book and give you the space and the support you need to complete them. The workbook also contains many additional exercises not found in the book. It's time now to take your first steps toward discovering your authentic life. It's an exciting time to be you!

Arguing that the same emotions that shape interpersonal relationships determine one's financial health, a guide to forging a prosperous relationship with money counsels readers on how to understand one's monetary strengths and weaknesses. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

This fascinating book illustrates how human behavior regarding money is triggered by emotion and powered by our psychic makeup, empowering readers to better understand their own behavior and decision making with money. Beyond being an essential medium of exchange, money carries deep psychological significance: having enough of it confers power and status and provides the potential to sustain our lifestyle and fulfill our desires. Not having money triggers a breadth of negative emotions. This book explores the psychological payload money carries and the emotional effects it generates, allowing readers to better understand people's behavior with money and its effects on their own lives. The Emotional Life of Money: How Money Changes the Way We Think and Feel identifies common hang-ups and anxieties about money; summarizes current academic research on money behavior and how people make decisions about their money; discusses the newest branch of economics, behavioral economics; and explores the possibility of the disappearance of cash in the digital future. General readers will be able to comprehend why money has often generated intense feelings of desire, greed, envy, elation, and other emotions, as well as sense of status; and undergraduate students in psychology, economics, and sociology courses will benefit from learning about the latest research on behavior economics and the powerful psychological and emotional effects of money.

Every day, women face new challenges that come with having control over, and responsibility for, their financial lives. Sometimes exciting, sometimes frightening, these issues always have an emotional side. Author and psychotherapist Dr. Kate Levinson offers fresh approaches to navigating the astonishing range of beliefs about the role of money in our lives, coming to terms with our feelings about being “rich” or “poor,” and exploring our inner money life so that we can put our feelings to work for us in a positive way. By understanding our intimate history and relationship with money we are better able to handle our money anxieties, solve our money problems, enjoy the money we have, and make room for other, more meaningful values.

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.