Farnoosh Torabi

When people are afraid of money, sometimes it has nothing to do with the money.

All the time, it has nothing to do with the money.

It has to do with your relationship to money, the stories you've been telling yourself about money.

And so when the fear of money shows up, your best assignment, number one, is to trace the root of that fear.

Where did it actually begin?

Where did you first adopt this fear?

Because I bet you adopted it.

It wasn't something that you were just born feeling.

You experienced it, you saw it, and then somehow it became who you are and what you think.

But it's important to zoom out and it's important to reflect on the root of our fears, especially when it's the fear of money, because it will tell you something very important usually about...

the way you were raised, the influences that you've had then and still.

So maybe still you're in a relationship or you're in a community or you're in a household that is feeding you these fears, which are actually fallacies.

They're not real.

They're just these contrived perceptions, understandings, myths around money that we tell ourselves because money is very emotional and money is

tends to poke at our sense of dignity and pride and ego.

And when we don't like what money says about us, we sometimes create stories that aren't true.

And so it's just important to examine that.

It's the first step when you have the fear of money.

And the next step is to, when you've recognized these patterns, these stories, these ways that you've been raised that you don't really want to continue, to create a new narrative.

Like, okay, all that happened to you, it's not to say that it doesn't have validity or it didn't happen, but it's in the past.