A few weeks ago, this question popped up in the private Facebook group for my year-long Art of Money program: Bari, help! As soon as I start working on the practical, nitty-gritty stuff around money, my brain shuts down. I’ve been trying to catch up on my taxes, but as soon as I begin, I panic. My brain goes blank. It’s like I’m a computer in meltdown mode: blue screen of death, nobody’s home. It’s just too difficult to look…
For years now, I’ve watched people throw themselves into the same 3 mainstream approaches to money. And they almost never stick. I first started noticing it when I was a graduate student at Naropa University. I was studying somatic psychotherapy and authentic movement and was surrounded by dancers and tons of creative, spiritual types. And there was SO much suffering around money. Mostly because people simply never looked money in the eye. I saw this suffering around money even more…
Dear Community, When you’ve been thonking your head against your tax return for six hours (and four chocolate bars). When you see that Post-It on your desk that says, “stop undercharging already!” but quote your new client last year’s rates, anyway … and can’t figure out why. When you’ve been researching for months for the best place to invest all the while trying to make sure the options align with your organic-peace-loving values. When you and your sweetie keep having…