The Trauma of Money

In The Trauma of Money: Mapping Compassionate Pathways to Healing Financial Trauma and Disempowering Financial Shame, veteran financial psychoeducation professional, Chantel Chapman, delivers a comprehensive exploration of the Trauma of Money Method, an innovative six-phase approach to decreasing shame and increasing discernment around money. The author highlights the many causes of financial trauma, tracing their roots to generational, relational, societal, and systemic origins. The book offers readers an intuitive path to improved understanding of how trauma directly impacts how we earn, spend, save, and invest our money. You'll learn how to change your money narrative by addressing-- head-on--the traumas that have influenced how you relate to money. You'll also discover powerful, research-based modalities that will transform your approach to finance, including somatic trauma healing, narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, internal family systems, addiction recovery therapies, biomimicry, systems change, and financial psychology. The Trauma of Money introduces how to heal and repair your foundational ideas about, and attitudes toward, money. It contains practical, hands-on tools--like reflection questions that will intentionally evolve your relationships to money and scarcity and reduce financial shame--and effective methods to mitigate trauma responses, like financial fawning. Filled with accessible approaches to reclaiming and deepening healthy commitments to your money values, integration activities, somatic exercises to regulate nervous system responses to financial stressors, and subconscious reprogramming tools, The Trauma of Money is an invaluable resource for people struggling to improve their relationship with money. It's also a must-read for financial advisors and planners, mental health professionals, and entrepreneurs.