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An open letter to folks who’ve realized that the “head-in-the-sand ostrich plan” around money isn’t working.

Dear friend,

Hi there…I’m Bari. 

 

If you’ve found your way to this page about the Art of Money program, there’s a good chance I know a bit about the challenges you’re feeling around money.

 

Things that, if you’re like most folks, you keep to yourself, because we live in a culture that doesn’t encourage open conversations about anything having to do with money.

 

After teaching this work for 24 years to over 5,472 people in my program, to over 36,000 people who’ve read my books, and to the hundreds of people I’ve helped in private financial therapy sessions, without a doubt, the biggest problems I see people facing around money come down to these 4 things:

1. Money brings up so many challenging emotions.

 

2. Not knowing how to deal with them can stop you from changing the things that feel broken in the financial area of your life.

 

3. Literally no one teaches us how to deal with these money triggered emotions.

 

4. Not knowing how to work with challenging money emotions makes it hard to change and get to the place you want to be with money.

Now, what do I mean by these harder “money emotions”?

 

Well, they’re usually some version of shame, anxiety, inadequacy, jealousy, fear, guilt, overwhelm, dread, or hopelessness. Yeah, that’s a real happy bag of emotions there, I know.

 

There are as many ways those emotions can show up in day-to-day life as there are people, but here’s a few comments I’ve heard over the last two decades that will give you a sense of how they show up in daily life:

 

“I get nervous having to do anything with my own money.”

 

“I feel great shame with everything about money. I feel afraid I will not be able to retire and make ends meet. I spend and over spend to fill a void.”

 

“I always have this niggling feeling in my stomach when I think about how I deal with money and I WANT IT TO GO AWAY!!!”

 

“I’m saturated in anxiety when I work with math, numbers, finances, all of it. Afraid there's not enough. So much other stuff to excavate there...I can't even articulate what scares me.”

 

“I feel so overwhelmed and incapable around the topic of money.”

 

“I’m tired of being afraid of not reaching financial security, which is really at the root of my money issues.”

 

“I want to heal my shame in regards to money. It's so big and it stops everything in its tracks. It's so old and self-poisoning.”

 

Whew. Not very fun things to feel, I know, but here’s why the emotional and psychological side of money is so, so important to know how to handle:

A study performed by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman showed that 90% of our financial decisions are based on emotion…and only 10% on logic.

Ninety percent! Crazy, eh?

 

Alright, let’s walk this through:

 

If 90% of our financial decisions are based on emotions, and no one has ever taught you how to deal with the emotions that come up around money, guess what happens:

 

You can end up making a lot of bad decisions around money.

 

But, and I can’t emphasize this enough, this is not your fault.

_________

Our society has unfortunately made the topic of money into a taboo.

 

We’re somehow supposed to just figure out the money thing on our own, with no purposeful teachings about it.

 

And if we can’t figure it out? We’re just supposed to keep it quiet and deal with it on our own.

 

Oh, and what happens if we do figure it out and start having some financial success, or if we inherit some money? Yup. You guessed it. We’re supposed to keep it to ourselves.

 

So where does this bring us?

 

We all have lots and lots of emotions around money (even me). All kinds of emotions. And most of them are not super pleasant.

 

Almost all of our money decisions are based on emotions.

 

No one teaches us how to work with the myriad of emotions that come up for us around money.

 

And not knowing how to work with those emotions can lead to all kinds of problems in the financial area of our lives.

 

You create bad money habits. You make financial mistakes. You keep fighting with your partner about money or are just plain afraid to talk about it with them. You’re afraid to take risks in your business or in life because of the anxiety.

But here’s the thing, my friend: it absolutely does not have to be this way.

We all have money stories we tell ourselves about the way things are and the way we want things to be. Look, I know that sometimes it can all feel hopeless and overwhelming, but I’m here to tell you:

 

You can re-write your money story so that things don’t feel like so much of a struggle around money.

 

Okay but how?

 

Well, you could try to fix your money challenges by listening to one of the popular men in the personal finance space who will make you feel lots of shame for not having figured all this money stuff out yet, tell you to save more than you spend, and then just invest some of what you save in this stock or that stock.

 

There’s nothing wrong with that advice. It’s just that the topic of making our relationship with money way healhtier is so much more nuanced than that.

 

Those approaches to solving life’s bigger challenges around money always felt horribly incomplete to me, which is why I created a more comprehensive, integrated path to make real, lasting changes in how we relate with money.

 

By walking down this path, you can reach what feels like a sunshine filled, peaceful meadow out there in a quiet place in the wilderness.

 

A place where you feel hope, peace of mind, clarity, confidence, and empowerment around money.

 

A place where you’re able to have open conversations with your partner around money.

 

A place where you can release the shame and self-loathing that your money stories bring up for you.

 

The path to that place begins here…

Ready To Join The Program?

Introducing: The Art of Money Program

The Art of Money program is your trusted road map to a more empowered financial future. 

 

Rooted in my 3-phase Financial Therapy methodology—Money Healing, Money Practices, and Money Maps—it offers a holistic framework for lasting change.

 

The Art of Money method is a somatic-based financial therapy framework I’ve been teaching for over 24 years — through life’s ups and downs, personal thresholds, and major world events. It has supported thousands of people in creating more clarity, confidence, and compassion in their money lives.  

 

This self-paced version of The Art of Money is designed with your rhythm in mind—especially while I’m on sabbatical. The 12-module journey unfolds through the three phases, but you choose the pace: pause, revisit, or move steadily forward when it feels right.

 

You’ll have access to written lessons, audio teachings, somatic practices, guest interviews, and worksheets—resources you can weave into everyday life, whether that means a weekend deep dive or a few mindful minutes a day. Thoughtfully structured without deadlines or Zoom calls, this program honors your nervous system, your pace, and your desire for healing.

 

After 24 years of teaching this work in various live formats, I'm taking a year-long sabbatical right now. But this self-guided version of The Art of Money carries forward the heart of my work through written and audio teachings that you can go through at your own speed. Give yourself this season of self-paced learning, where every pace is the right pace.

 

Because money runs like a stream through our lives—offering the chance to heal the past, know ourselves more deeply, and write a new chapter. The Art of Money will lovingly guide you with visioning, practical tools, and body-based practices to support every step, from small shifts to bold leaps.

 

For many, money is the last frontier—the one place peace and confidence still feel out of reach. This program is here to change that, helping you move beyond avoidance and into secure, grounded financial flow.

 

Is it time to approach money from a deeper place?

 

Even though I'm not teaching on live calls for a bit, I'll still be with you every step of your journey through the written lessons, workbook exercises, and audio recordings of past classes.

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Bari Tessler is a pioneer in financial therapy—practicing it before it even had a name and coining the term itself.

 

I met her over 20 years ago, and she remains one of the most gifted financial therapists, teachers, and authors I know. She has an unparalleled ability to make the complex world of money accessible to anyone, meeting people where they are with deep attunement and sensitivity. Her work has transformed countless lives, helping people not just navigate their finances but truly thrive. If you have the opportunity to learn from Bari—whether through a course, mentorship, or her writing—don’t hesitate. The world is a better place because of her work.

 

- RICK KAHLER

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Bari Tessler is a pioneer in financial therapy—practicing it before it even had a name and coining the term itself.

 

I met her over 20 years ago, and she remains one of the most gifted financial therapists, teachers, and authors I know. She has an unparalleled ability to make the complex world of money accessible to anyone, meeting people where they are with deep attunement and sensitivity. Her work has transformed countless lives, helping people not just navigate their finances but truly thrive. If you have the opportunity to learn from Bari—whether through a course, mentorship, or her writing—don’t hesitate. The world is a better place because of her work.

 

- RICK KAHLER

Infuse your relationship with money with wisdom, practices, and hands-on tools that empower you to align your finances with your deepest values.

Pattie Belle Hastings

“This program changed my life! I joined when I was going through the divorce and was terrified of the responsibility of being the sole financial manager. Now I experience peace instead of fear, flourishing instead of scarcity, and confidence instead of insecurity.”

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“The Art of Money program, and the behind-the-scenes team, and Bari herself, are all very bright lights in my life. I am forever grateful to have entered the forest and to be a student here.”

Patricia Ponton

The Self-Paced Art of Money Experience

  • Lifetime access to all recordings and course materials.
  • A structured framework to ground your journey. The three phases of Money Healing, Money Practices, and Money Maps offer a comprehensive, holistic framework to create authentic, sustainable change and real-life transformation in your relationship with money.
  • 12 Modules. Inside each module you’ll  find audio and workbook exercises to guide your exploration deeper.
  • A cohort of incredible Guest Teachers. Each module features two Guest Teacher interviews via audio and transcribed text.
  • A mini library with additional content, resources and referrals.
  • Access to our Money Memoirs vault: A collection of deeply personal, intimate interviews Bari has done with people from all walks of life about money.
  • Somatic based exercises to help ground you and infuse your money journey with deeper self-knowing, mindfulness, and intention.
  • Spacious Encouragement. You’ll be encouraged to continuously engage the material — at your own pace — through reflection prompts, personal practices, and more to guide and inspire you along the way.
  • Heads up: No live sessions with Bari are included in this self-paced program.

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I have been teaching about money stories and the impact of money beliefs for years so I am extremely picky about who and what I study along my own path.

 

I chose Bari because she is a unique combination of deep wisdom, mastery, warmth and humor. Her course is a generous, well designed opportunity to explore and transform your relationship with money - packed into easy to implement, practical bites. Highly recommended.

 

- Revital Chitayat

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I have been teaching about money stories and the impact of money beliefs for years so I am extremely picky about who and what I study along my own path.

 

I chose Bari because she is a unique combination of deep wisdom, mastery, warmth and humor. Her course is a generous, well designed opportunity to explore and transform your relationship with money - packed into easy to implement, practical bites. Highly recommended.

 

- Revital Chitayat

You can’t be shamed into a better relationship with money.

The Art of Money program is chock full of gentle, shame-free, somatic-based tools that guide you on a journey of uncovering a new way to get better with money, finally, once and for all. 

 

Back when I first started on the journey to fix my own relationship with money, I knew I needed to create a methodology that not only blended emotional literacy with financial literacy, but also infused the process with mindful awareness, creativity, and personal ritual to weave deeper meaning into all the practical nuts and bolts practices and tools along the way. 

 

I needed a more intentional, compassionate, and meaningful approach than the ones I was seeing the finance bros aggressively push on the internet - I knew this was the only way I could have a healthy and savvy relationship to money.

 

24 years ago, after a lot of walks in the woods, gathering inspiration from my time in the trees, and covering my living room walls with whiteboard notes and ideas, a new path towards true peace of mind around money was born.

And I broke it all down into 3 phases…

Phase 1: Money Healing

We start by bringing compassionate curiosity to our emotions, patterns, and unique money story. Here we un-shame the past, claim our value, and learn to write a new chapter. We create intimate, safe spaces for money work, solo, with your honey, BFF, or whoever you want to share this journey with. We learn mind and body-based practices to support our journey and ensure we are working with self-care, acceptance, and love along the way.

 

We’ll spend our first 4 modules here, learning how to heal and release the beliefs that no longer serve you, infusing this journey with an abundance of mindful awareness and compassion.

Explore deep money healing, forgiveness, and empowerment

Learn to identify the patterns and emotions that come up for you around money

Practice somatic (body-based) tools to help you work with these challenging emotions

Bring presence and honesty to your money story and bring it into the light.

Understand the nuanced and complex influences of your family conditioning, personality, culture, and socio-economic factors driving your money patterns

Create your own personal money rituals inviting more clarity, awareness, and acceptance

Phase 2: Money Practices

Here, we learn a new way to interact with money as a nurturing self-care practice. We empower ourselves by learning the language of money, gathering practical tools, implementing bookkeeping systems, tracking money as it flows in and out and around, infusing the nuts and bolts with a sense of fun and adventure. We take our relationship with money deeper as we learn to have Money Dates and bring intention and mindfulness to our earning, spending, saving, gifting, and debt.

 

For the next 4 modules, we’ll work together to apply accessible, effective values-based financial practices, fresh perspectives, and expert guidance to your money life.

Identify your deepest values — and how to align your habits of earning, spending, saving, and gifting with what matters most to you.

Achieve new awareness with your money habits and patterns. Learn to make the changes you want with less resistance and more ease.

 Learn how to have meaningful, compassionate, and inspiring money dates with yourself.

Empower your financial savvy by learning the language of money and a bookkeeping system that works for you and your life.

Create personal money self-care practices to support you daily, weekly, monthly, and on a yearly basis.

Explore values-based bookkeeping to transform money management into a more personal, meaningful, and creative practice.

Phase 3: Money Maps

Step into a more personal way to track your needs and manage your money without ever using a dusty old “budget” again. 

 

Here, we create maps of intention, learn to make good money decisions (and what that even means to each of us), and how to navigate the financial challenges or money curveballs that life throws our way. 

 

Here we go deep-soul diving to identify how money can best support our unfolding lives and crafting annual money practices to empower your dreams.

 

For the last 4 modules of The Art of Money program, we’ll focus on big picture visioning, connecting you even more deeply with yourself, honoring your most authentic aspirations, and giving you the dedicated space you need to:

Learn how to create a 3-tier Money Map integrating your real-life numbers with your dreams, goals, and values.

Discover tools to help you make solid money decisions whether you’re facing small, medium, or larger, life-changing purchases.

Refine your financial approach to Earning, Spending, Giving, Debt Repayment, Saving, and Investing.

Practice gratitude in the present moment while planning for the future.

The Art of Money Syllabus:
12 Modules

Money Healing

Module 1

LET'S START WITH THE BODY

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Why are you really here? Discovering the 8 Money Areas. Turn within and clarify your intentions for this year
  • Explore your money emotions
  • Learn what your body has to say about money
  • Get clear on where you are in your current relationship with money
  • Learn body-based practices to begin building your somatic toolkit
  • Start practicing The Body Check-In: my #1 favorite tool for money transformation
  • Start scheduling Art of Money dates on your calendar

Guest Teacher Topics: Somatic Tools for Your Money Relationships, Somatics and Boundaries, How to Work with Fight-Flight-Freeze in Money Moments

Money Healing

Module 2

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MONEY STORY

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Understand the concept of a Money Story
  • Unearth memories, beliefs, and attitudes about money from your childhood 
  • Discover the golden nuggets and challenging aspects of your money story
  • Examine how your family lineage have impacted your money relationship
  • Notice how your past is showing up in your present
  • Listen to other people's money stories from all different backgrounds
  • Write your own Money Memoir
  • Start to rewrite your Money Story

Guest Teacher Topics: Listen to the Money Memoir Interviews which highlight stories and lessons from folks from all different lineage, race and class backgrounds.

Money Healing

Module 3

COUPLES, FAMILY (PARENTS + KIDS) MONEY DYNAMICS + CONVERSATIONS

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Understand how your oldest money “stuff” and may show up in your romantic relationships (past, present, and future)
  • Start noticing any gender dynamics or polarities at play around money with you and your sweetie
  • Learn some tools to bring more compassion and consciousness into your money conversations with your honey
  • Explore Money Dynamics with Your Parents
  • Understand Your Parenting Money Style
  • Learn new tools for parenting and money
  • Learn how to have new money conversations with the people closest to you.

Guest Teacher Topics: How Couples Polarize, Family Money Dynamics, Tips on Parenting and Money

Money Healing

Module 4

LETTING GO: COMPLETIONS, FORGIVENESS, AND MONEY HEALING RITUALS

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Figure out what’s really draining your energy and how you can reclaim your vitality from the four realms of financial “incompletes.”
  • Banish overwhelm, paralysis, and shame.
  • Free yourself from old resentments, shame, and anything that has a hold on you and your Money Story
  • Learn the surprising reasons forgiveness is a major money practice -- and 5 myths that may be keeping you from forgiving
  • Want to go even deeper? From blessing to releasing, ritual is a powerful way to consciously step into the future you want. I’ll walk you through the 7 elements to consider as you create your very own, personalized Money Healing Ritual. 

Guest Teacher Topics: How to Create Money Healing Rituals + Spiritual Components of Money

Money Practices

Module 5

THE MONEY DATE RITUAL

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Transition from deep healing into practical money
    work
  • Learn how to see your relationship to money as a self-
    care practice
  • Learn all about Money Dates
  • Learn 27 ways to make a money date your own
  • Learn about Couples' Money Dates
  • Reminder to bring in somatic tools when doing
    money dates
  • Bring more meaning, creativity, and ritual to your
    money practices
  • Create (or fine-tune) your own personalized Money
  • Practice -- with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
    practices.
  • Need help with credit card debt? We have support +
    resources for you

Guest Teacher Topics: Debt Repayment Options + Debt
Triage

Money Practices

Module 6

CHOOSING A TRACKING SYSTEM AND VALUES-BASED BOOKKEEPING

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Do a bookkeeping assessment. How’s this going, for
    you
  • Learn about different bookkeeping systems, pros and
    cons
  • Choose the best financial tracking system for you –
    and begin using it!
  • Identify your deepest values … and learn how to align
    them with your bookkeeping.
  • Learn how to rename your categories based on your
    values + intentions
  • Continue fine-tuning your Money Dates and Somatic
    Practices

Guest Teacher Topics: Bookkeeping Experts Talk About Their Favorite Tracking Tools. Plus, some live demos!

Money Practices

Module 7

FINANCIAL SUPPORT TEAMS

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Get into the swing of a regular daily, weekly, and
    monthly money practice
  • Make your money dates your own with our money
    practice guidebook
  • Bring on some financial support: who do you need to
    help you, right now?
  • Who are the different players: Bookkeepers,
    accountants, financial planners, etc.
  • Learn about financial planning, socially responsible
    investing, and estate planning.

Guest Teacher Topics: Money + Taxes, Cash Flow, and Bookkeeping Systems for Entrepreneurs

Money Practices

Module 8

DECLUTTER, REVIEW, AND RECLAIM YOUR VALUE

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Reflect & Clear Space: Declutter and make space. Prepare your inner and outer landscape before diving into Value + Earning
  • Overcoming Underearning with Bari: Core teachings on overcoming under-earning. Explore internal & external tools and practices to step into your value and earning potential
  • Value, Earning, and Enoughness: Deepen your understanding of personal value and enoughness
  • Native Genius + Your Earning Power: Learn how aligning your strengths transforms your earning capacity

Guest Teacher Topics: Value, Enoughness, Overcoming Underearning, Native Genius, Unlocking Your Earning Power

Money Maps

Module 9

CREATING YOUR MONEY MAP

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Discover a whole new way to budget, infused with your personal dreams + values: your Money Map
  • Make space for your “budget baggage” & and learn why most of your resistance is probably oh-so-wise
  • Learn my absolute fave way to Money Map: Your 3 Tier Plan
  • Vision, define, and create your very own Money Map
  • Dance gracefully with your goals, projections, values, dreams -- and current reality
  • Learn new tools + practices to make great money decisions

Guest Teacher Topics: Budgeting + Cash Flow For Your Personal and Entrepreneurial Finances

Money Maps

Module 10

VISIONING AND LIVING YOUR MAP OF INTENTION

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Dive deep into your dreams, values, and goals through guided visualizations
  • Identify practical financial steps to take to bring your dreams to life
  • Learn tools to dance with your real-world cashflow, whatever your reality: peaks and dips, steady income, couples, entrepreneurs, etc.
  • How to Dance with Your Money Map
  • Learn the 5 Money Areas: Earning and Income, Spending and Expenses, Saving, Debt repayment, Investing
  • Find your way into right pricing and breaking through money ceilings.

Guest Teacher Topics: Women + Money, Profit First
Accounting Method

Money Maps

Module 11

HOW TO MAKE GOOD MONEY DECISIONS, LIFE TRANSITIONS, AND MONEY CURVEBALLS

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Learn how to make smart money decisions that feel good to you
  • Explore some ready-to-use frameworks and questions to help you make good money decisions in different scenarios -- and get inspired to create your own!
  • Learn the warning signs that it’s not a great time to make a money decision with the H.A.L.T. method (so helpful)
  • What do you do when time, energy, and money are all at a premium? Try out the 3 Pots method.
  • Learn my Zen-inspired reframe for those big, huge money questions that feel impossible to answer (and how to solve them)

Guest Teacher Topics: Sudden Money: What to Do in Big Money + Life Transitions

Money Maps

Module 12

YOUR MONEY LEGACY

Here’s what we'll cover:

  • Identify where you are and where you’d like to go from here. What have you accomplished? And what are your growing edges?
  • Honor the ending of our Art of Money journey. Explore how you “do” endings, in general: what emotions do they conjure, for you? What do you need to feel complete?
  • Explore your unique Holiday Money Story (we all have one!)
  • Do a full End of Year Money Ritual to review the past year (in money and beyond) with loving awareness … and set the stage for the New Year with clarity and empowerment.
  • Clarify your money legacy.

Here’s a few more places I’ve appeared:

About Your Guide

If you'd like to know a bit more about me, here's the scoop: I'm a Financial Therapist and a pioneer in the field of financial therapy. I earned my Master's degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University in 1998.

 

Following my time in university, I ran a bookkeeping business for therapists and artists. In 2001, I merged all my training and created a somatic-based Financial Therapy methodology, which I’ve been teaching for 23 years. I'm also the author of two books: The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness and The Art of Money Workbook.

 

My work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, USA Today, The Cut, Girlboss, Nerd Wallet, Real Simple, MindBodyGreen, and REDBOOK. I’ve also been featured on the cover of Experience Life and Mindful magazine.

 

I love to read, dance, and enjoy dark chocolate. I live in Boulder, CO with my husband, son, a herd of cats, and a big puppy.

 

I’m currently on a year-long teaching sabbatical (which began in August 2025) and am lovingly dreaming up new self-paced offerings + products for you.

About Your Guide

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If you'd like to know a bit more about me, here's the scoop: I'm a Financial Therapist and a pioneer in the field of financial therapy. I earned my Master's degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University in 1998.

 

Following my time in university, I ran a bookkeeping business for therapists and artists. In 2001, I merged all my training and created a somatic-based Financial Therapy methodology, which I’ve been teaching for 23 years. I'm also the author of two books: The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness and The Art of Money Workbook.

 

My work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, USA Today, The Cut, Girlboss, Nerd Wallet, Real Simple, MindBodyGreen, and REDBOOK. I’ve also been featured on the cover of Experience Life and Mindful magazine.

 

I love to read, dance, and enjoy dark chocolate. I live in Boulder, CO with my husband, son, a herd of cats, and a big puppy.

Here’s a few more places I’ve appeared:

Get Better With Money

The truth is, if you get better with money, you will have more time to do the things you really want to do. 

 

But we don’t want to “get better with money” in an icky, shame filled, kind of way, do we? 

 

We want it to happen with ease and grace

 

And the path to a better relationship with money must be shame free.

 

You’re in the right place if that resonates, because the Art of Money is a 100% shame-free zone. 

 

If money shame could be turned into electricity, it would generate enough electricity to power every home in the world for years on end. 

 

We all have enough shame about things we’ve done around money, or things we haven’t done yet but feel like we should have by now (“because seriously I’m already this old and staring at wanting to retire soon and shouldn’t I have figured this money stuff out by now?!”).

 

With all of us carrying so much shame about money already, dumping more shame on you for not getting your shit together already helps exactly no one.

 

So yeah…nope. We don’t do shame here. 

 

On the Art of Money journey, you’ll find oodles of tools and techniques that will lead you to true peace of mind around your finances through a much more gentle path. 

 

Drill sergeant types of personal finance advice may work for some people, but not for you and me. That kind of attitude around changing how you do money is not only not helpful, it’s harmful.  

 

So, if you feel despair about your financial situation, but you want to make changes so you can get to that place without all the shame, you’re in the right place.

After hearing from literally thousands of people like you over the last 24 years, here are some examples of what positive change looks like in our financial lives:

  • So much more peace of mind and courage about all the money stuff.
  • Much more kindness with yourself when you're feeling overwhelmed and more trust that it will be ok.
  • A deeper understanding of why I was under-earning and a bag of tools that helped me step into higher earning.
  • Having a rock solid, regular money practice through the inevitable ebbs and flows of life and money.
  • Building up a 6-month emergency savings account for life’s unexpected events.
  • Learning how to catch big money emotions quicker so you don’t go into full overwhelm.
  • Confidence in your ability to use a bookkeeping system.
  • A new found trust in your capacity to recover from money curveballs. 
  • A sense of greater understanding of family money history that used to bring you great stress.
  • Having enough money so you have more time to spend with the ones you love, doing the things you love. 
  • Being way more mindful with spending and money decisions, it changes everything.
  • Having loving and compassionate money conversations with your partner or family with way less fighting.
  • Realizing that you can be creative and intuitive around money and create fun and ritualized money practices.

Our Featured Guest Teachers

I am delighted to introduce you to the phenomenal panel of teachers in the Art of Money program, who have recorded interviews with me that are available inside the program.

 

Beyond our robust framework for the Art of Money program, our guest teachers bring another level of knowledge. Each and every one of them are experts in their fields with a profoundly powerful message to share with you.

 

I’ve collaborated with every one of our special guests to identify the most powerful topics for us to explore together.

 

This roster of guest teachers was heart-picked by me, for you.

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To Name a Few...

Amy Bradbury - Financial Strategist
Topic: Cashflow Systems for Entrepreneurs

 

Andrea Smith Gage - Somatic Experiencing Trainer
Topic: Somatic Tools + Boundaries

 

Barbara Huson - Leading Authority on Women and Money
Topic: Overcoming Under-Earning

 

Brad Klontz - Financial Therapist + Financial Planner
Topic: Family Money Dynamics

 

Chelsea Brennan - Founder of Smart Money Mama
Topic: Parenting, Kids and Money

 

Christopher Peck - Financial Advisor
Topic: Socially Responsible Investing

 

Deborah Price - Founder of the Money Coaching Institute
Topic: Couples Money Dynamics

 

Galia Gichon - Financial Coach
Topic: Financial Planning 101

 

Geri Detweiler - Consumer Debt Advocate
Topic: Debt Repayment Options

 

Hiro Boga - Business Strategist +  Energy Alchemist
Topic: Money + Energy

 

Jacquette Timmons - Financial Behaviorist
Topic: How to Price Your Services

 

Jessica Salzman - Bookkeeper Extraordinaire
Topic: Heart-centered Bookkeeping

 

Karin Robbins - Somatic Experiencing Therapist
Topic: Somatic Tools for Your Money Relationship

Karen McCall - The Financial Recovery Institute
Topic: Budgeting Q&A + Money Grit Demo

 

Manisha Thakor - Certified Financial Planner
Topic: Money + Mental Health

 

Mikelann Valterra - Money Coach and Author
Topic: Healing Earning Issues

 

Nancy Levin: Life Coach and Author
Topic: How to Take a Stand for Your Self-Worth

 

Nick True - YNAB Expert
Topic: YNAB Bookkeeping System Demo + Q&A

 

Nona Jordan - Business Yogini, CPA
Topic: Money + Entrepreneurial Adventures

 

Olivia Mellan - Pioneering Financial Therapist
Topic: How Couples Polarize

 

Rachel Cole: Intuitive Eating Coach
Topic: Money and Food Connections

 

Rachel Robasciotti - Founder of Adasina Social Capital
Topic: Social Justice Investing

 

Saundra Davis - Financial Coach, Educator
Topic: Wealth Gap + Giving Back

 

Sonya Brewer - Body-Centered Psychotherapist
Topic: Somatic Tools for Money Triggers

 

Tad Hargrave - Marketing for Hippies
Topic: How to Survive (and Bless!) Cashflow Dips

 

Vicki Robin - Author, Your Money or Your Life
Topic: Sustainability + Her Classic Money Teachings

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I was doing pretty well with the nuts and bolts parts of my money life, but I lived with a hum of money panic in the background.

 

Every time an unexpected bill arrived, my business hit a low month, or any kind of letter arrived from the IRS, that panic would spike. I’d snap at my partner, fall into catastrophic thinking, and lose any sense of safety or belonging in this world. Then came Bari and the Art Of Money.

 

Through going through the AOM program over a year and also receiving mentoring from Bari, I was able to create a grounded, honest and loving relationship with my money. I’ve discovered the places where that panic came from (it’s closely tied to my sense of self and fear of not belonging), walked through healing, and created practices around caring for my financial life. I’m never going back to that hum of panic. When a tough moment shows up, I know how to return to my AOM tools and stay open and loving with myself.

 

- annie schuessler

Program Cost

Art of Money Self-Paced Program

One-time Payment

of $199 

Head's up...this is important:

  • No live classes or live Q&A. This self-paced version includes on-demand access to the 12 modules of written and audio content as well as the archive library, which is full of more audio interviews.

  • For self-directed learners. You’ll move through the materials at your own pace.

  • All sales are final. Enrollment is non-refundable and non-transferable, and we don’t defer enrollment to future offerings.

  • Please read the syllabus and FAQ, and sample Bari’s work (book/podcast) before enrolling to ensure a great fit.

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This is a wonderful program. 

 

I have done multiple courses with financial mentors over the years, and I appreciated the mix of work on the emotional/spiritual side of money with the practical. The weekly co-working sessions are priceless, and supported me to make regular progress during the program. Bari also opened my eyes to many resources and people I did not even know existed. This is a very high quality program. Also, Bari is very empathic and knows how to coach different people in different ways. Also, I rarely could attend the live calls, but listened to all the replays, so being live is not essential (although preferred of course).

 

- Anne Gadon

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I started working with Bari Tessler years ago, back when she was still teaching Conscious Bookkeeping.

 

When she launched the Art of Money, I was ecstatic. It meant that I could continue deepening my understanding of values-based bookkeeping within a broader community of like-minded folks all learning how to have a more empowered relationship with money. It wasn't enough for me to learn about budgeting and bookkeeping.

 

Crunching numbers actually came easily to me. My issue was grappling with all of the emotions that came with managing my money. Being able to do this work in the Art of Money community helped transform the crippling anxiety, shame and fear that I sometimes felt when making money decisions. Since beginning my work with Bari, I've gone from chronically underearning to confidently earning a solid living with ease. My debt has come down, my credit has improved. The biggest gift has been feeling less anxious about money--even with big changes afoot like having a child and getting divorced. I know much more about what my money is doing at any given moment, and I feel relaxed and confident about my ability to take care of myself and my family financially.

 

- Sonya Brewer

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I started working with Bari Tessler years ago, back when she was still teaching Conscious Bookkeeping.

 

When she launched the Art of Money, I was ecstatic. It meant that I could continue deepening my understanding of values-based bookkeeping within a broader community of like-minded folks all learning how to have a more empowered relationship with money. It wasn't enough for me to learn about budgeting and bookkeeping.

 

Crunching numbers actually came easily to me. My issue was grappling with all of the emotions that came with managing my money. Being able to do this work in the Art of Money community helped transform the crippling anxiety, shame and fear that I sometimes felt when making money decisions. Since beginning my work with Bari, I've gone from chronically underearning to confidently earning a solid living with ease. My debt has come down, my credit has improved. The biggest gift has been feeling less anxious about money--even with big changes afoot like having a child and getting divorced. I know much more about what my money is doing at any given moment, and I feel relaxed and confident about my ability to take care of myself and my family financially.

 

- Sonya Brewer

,,

This is a wonderful program. 

 

I have done multiple courses with financial mentors over the years, and I appreciated the mix of work on the emotional/spiritual side of money with the practical. The weekly co-working sessions are priceless, and supported me to make regular progress during the program. Bari also opened my eyes to many resources and people I did not even know existed. This is a very high quality program. Also, Bari is very empathic and knows how to coach different people in different ways. Also, I rarely could attend the live calls, but listened to all the replays, so being live is not essential (although preferred of course).

 

- Anne Gadon

,,

I was doing pretty well with the nuts and bolts parts of my money life, but I lived with a hum of money panic in the background.

 

Every time an unexpected bill arrived, my business hit a low month, or any kind of letter arrived from the IRS, that panic would spike. I’d snap at my partner, fall into catastrophic thinking, and lose any sense of safety or belonging in this world. Then came Bari and the Art Of Money.

 

Through going through the AOM program over a year and also receiving mentoring from Bari, I was able to create a grounded, honest and loving relationship with my money. I’ve discovered the places where that panic came from (it’s closely tied to my sense of self and fear of not belonging), walked through healing, and created practices around caring for my financial life. I’m never going back to that hum of panic. When a tough moment shows up, I know how to return to my AOM tools and stay open and loving with myself.

 

- Annie schuessler

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As a man with a traditional finance background, I was extremely skeptical of this seemingly feminine and feelings-oriented course because I felt like I knew exactly what needed to be done for our financial health.

 

But through the course, Bari won me over, and my perspective has completely changed.

 

If you are a married couple with young children like we are, and you are wondering if you should do this, I would strongly suggest it. I have been the money person in our relationship, and I always wanted my wife to care as much about saving money as I do. But I couldn’t get her to see my side of things. So it wasn’t a surprise to me that she proposed we enroll in this course. My instant reaction was that we should keep our money in our account instead of enrolling. I tried to convince her that I could teach her everything she needs to know about budgeting, money, investing, etc.

 

It turns out Bari was a better teacher for her than I am. She needed a really kind, gentle approach and a community of support to engage in money talk. Bari taught us techniques for being kind to ourselves and each other around a topic that brings up so much tension and stress. During the course, we paid off all debt completely and are both focused on building our savings. My wife does it without me nagging her now. Her inner money manager has been awakened. Our finances are better than ever before, and we are both involved now. I’m grateful to you, Bari, for helping us connect on this issue so deeply.

 

- Rene Cordova and Lumina Gershfield Cordova

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As a man with a traditional finance background, I was extremely skeptical of this seemingly feminine and feelings-oriented course because I felt like I knew exactly what needed to be done for our financial health.

 

But through the course, Bari won me over, and my perspective has completely changed.

 

If you are a married couple with young children like we are, and you are wondering if you should do this, I would strongly suggest it. I have been the money person in our relationship, and I always wanted my wife to care as much about saving money as I do. But I couldn’t get her to see my side of things. So it wasn’t a surprise to me that she proposed we enroll in this course. My instant reaction was that we should keep our money in our account instead of enrolling. I tried to convince her that I could teach her everything she needs to know about budgeting, money, investing, etc.

 

It turns out Bari was a better teacher for her than I am. She needed a really kind, gentle approach and a community of support to engage in money talk. Bari taught us techniques for being kind to ourselves and each other around a topic that brings up so much tension and stress. During the course, we paid off all debt completely and are both focused on building our savings. My wife does it without me nagging her now. Her inner money manager has been awakened. Our finances are better than ever before, and we are both involved now. I’m grateful to you, Bari, for helping us connect on this issue so deeply.

 

- Rene Cordova and Lumina Gershfield Cordova

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I've done all kinds of deep inner work for years. But money?! No way.

 

It was the final frontier. A shadow realm I had never learned much about, and somehow thought everyone else had an education I was missing. While walking on the Art of Money path, I discovered that next to no one gets a great money education, and all of us have healing and learning to do, whether we’re deep in debt or deep in a big inheritance. I adore Bari’s compassion, enthusiasm, somatic sensibility, practical skills, and vast heart.

 

I can’t imagine a more kind-hearted guide in this exploration of such an important topic, so ridden with stress and shame for many of us.

 

- Erin Geesaman Rabke

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I’ve done all kinds of deep inner work for years.

 

But money?! No way.

 

It was the final frontier. A shadow realm I had never learned much about, and somehow thought everyone else had an education I was missing. While walking on the Art of Money path, I discovered that next to no one gets a great money education, and all of us have healing and learning to do, whether we’re deep in debt or deep in a big inheritance. I adore Bari’s compassion, enthusiasm, somatic sensibility, practical skills, and vast heart.

 

I can’t imagine a more kind-hearted guide in this exploration of such an important topic, so ridden with stress and shame for many of us.

 

- Erin Geesaman Rabke

Got Questions? We’ve got Answers.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE + LOGISTICS

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Bari Tessler's Art of Money program has appeared in my life at a time when I really needed it the most.

 

For most of my life, money had been an issue with much emotional load - whether it was fear, stress, anger, frustration, elation, or hope - yet for some reason, no one had ever connected the dots for me, pointing out that to get my financial life in order, taking care of those emotions and stories and how they showed up in my financial transactions and my approach to my finances was a necessary and extremely effective way of getting on top of my personal and business finances.

 

Enter Bari and her gentle, knowledgeable, and creatively intuitive approach and teaching. It is safe to say, following through with the program was not only one of the best investments I could make regarding my finances, it also influenced so many other areas of my life. It turned strained family relationships from toxic to surprisingly supportive, it helped calm and lower my stress levels, supported my own professional development and how I show up for those I am working with, and many of the tools I first learned in The Art of Money I have taken into my private life, and they facilitate communication and help with relationships and friendships.

 

Because clarity, healing, somatic awareness, and a focused, well-paced, body-centered approach to emotions and sensitivities are useful in every area of life. Combined with the wealth of practical knowledge, experts to reach out to, and the invaluable support of a community of peers, this is really a place to come home to and resource myself for navigating this money/life journey in the best way possible. I highly recommend it!

 

- Sibylle Meder

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Bari Tessler's Art of Money program has appeared in my life at a time when I really needed it the most.

 

For most of my life, money had been an issue with much emotional load - whether it was fear, stress, anger, frustration, elation, or hope - yet for some reason, no one had ever connected the dots for me, pointing out that to get my financial life in order, taking care of those emotions and stories and how they showed up in my financial transactions and my approach to my finances was a necessary and extremely effective way of getting on top of my personal and business finances.

 

Enter Bari and her gentle, knowledgeable, and creatively intuitive approach and teaching. It is safe to say, following through with the program was not only one of the best investments I could make regarding my finances, it also influenced so many other areas of my life. It turned strained family relationships from toxic to surprisingly supportive, it helped calm and lower my stress levels, supported my own professional development and how I show up for those I am working with, and many of the tools I first learned in The Art of Money I have taken into my private life, and they facilitate communication and help with relationships and friendships.

 

Because clarity, healing, somatic awareness, and a focused, well-paced, body-centered approach to emotions and sensitivities are useful in every area of life. Combined with the wealth of practical knowledge, experts to reach out to, and the invaluable support of a community of peers, this is really a place to come home to and resource myself for navigating this money/life journey in the best way possible. I highly recommend it!

 

- Sibylle Meder

This is a calling in

An invitation to begin a new journey.

 

An opportunity to explore new depths of compassion, awareness, and understanding.

 

Wherever you stand in relationship to money right now, however your path is unfolding,
all of you is welcome here.