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Financial Trauma and How To Rewrite Your Personal Money Story
Overcoming financial trauma, knowing how to rewrite your own personal money story as well as mastering your money mindset is a critical part of achieving holistic wealth. Many experts now realize that teaching financial literacy without teaching money mindset mastery is a recipe for failure. On the Holistic Wealth podcast with Keisha Blair, we have had some amazing guests who have shared their own money mindset struggles, as well as tips and strategies to overcome financial trauma, improve money mindset and overcome money blocks ( including ancestral money blocks).
Recent Research by the University of Southern California, by Dr. Galen Buckwalter, found that over 20 percent of the population meets the above criteria for financial PTSD. It is estimated that 23 percent of adults and 36 percent of millennials experience financial stress at levels that qualify as a diagnosis of PTSD.
The key issue is that many people are stuck in trauma patterns and habits. According to Dr. Nicole Lepera on the Holistic Wealth Podcast with Keisha Blair, “upwards of 80 or 90% of our day, we’re allowing that autopilot to make decisions for us”. In my book Holistic Wealth, I outlined that:
“ each of us makes at least 50,000 decisions each and every day and most of us make those decisions mindlessly and…
