Shauna Game
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Do you feel like you would rather just run out of the room than deal with the situation? All of those are somatic bodily cues. that something is going on with your relationship with money. And when you notice one of those things happening, don't judge yourself. Just pause and say, okay, where is this coming from? Is this coming from a belief from my childhood?
Do you feel like you would rather just run out of the room than deal with the situation? All of those are somatic bodily cues. that something is going on with your relationship with money. And when you notice one of those things happening, don't judge yourself. Just pause and say, okay, where is this coming from? Is this coming from a belief from my childhood?
Is this coming from something real where maybe there just isn't enough money? And that's bringing me back to this place of just this extreme fear around money. Maybe you grew up where money was really tight. So I think the body gives us so many clues when it comes to money, but we just don't tune into that. We're just purely looking at the numbers piece.
Is this coming from something real where maybe there just isn't enough money? And that's bringing me back to this place of just this extreme fear around money. Maybe you grew up where money was really tight. So I think the body gives us so many clues when it comes to money, but we just don't tune into that. We're just purely looking at the numbers piece.
Is this coming from something real where maybe there just isn't enough money? And that's bringing me back to this place of just this extreme fear around money. Maybe you grew up where money was really tight. So I think the body gives us so many clues when it comes to money, but we just don't tune into that. We're just purely looking at the numbers piece.
So use your body as an indicator, a moment to pause and say, okay, what's going on and where does this come from?
So use your body as an indicator, a moment to pause and say, okay, what's going on and where does this come from?
So use your body as an indicator, a moment to pause and say, okay, what's going on and where does this come from?
There's so many different exercises you can use. It depends if you're somebody who loves to journal. I have an exercise called Hey Money, and I literally write money a letter. Sometimes it's a couple of words and it's not a very nice letter. Sometimes it's, oh, this great thing happened.
There's so many different exercises you can use. It depends if you're somebody who loves to journal. I have an exercise called Hey Money, and I literally write money a letter. Sometimes it's a couple of words and it's not a very nice letter. Sometimes it's, oh, this great thing happened.
There's so many different exercises you can use. It depends if you're somebody who loves to journal. I have an exercise called Hey Money, and I literally write money a letter. Sometimes it's a couple of words and it's not a very nice letter. Sometimes it's, oh, this great thing happened.
But the process of doing something like that is helping me move past these places of fear that are stopping my ability to move forward with money. There's also financial therapy. But I think that what we need to do is when we notice... the feeling. We need to acknowledge it, go, okay, it's there. And then we need to think about what action step can I pair with this that might help this?
But the process of doing something like that is helping me move past these places of fear that are stopping my ability to move forward with money. There's also financial therapy. But I think that what we need to do is when we notice... the feeling. We need to acknowledge it, go, okay, it's there. And then we need to think about what action step can I pair with this that might help this?
But the process of doing something like that is helping me move past these places of fear that are stopping my ability to move forward with money. There's also financial therapy. But I think that what we need to do is when we notice... the feeling. We need to acknowledge it, go, okay, it's there. And then we need to think about what action step can I pair with this that might help this?
So if it's a feeling of there's never enough money, maybe I might look at like, okay, have I set up an emergency fund? Am I contributing to my 401k? Like, am I actually taking actions to help counteract this belief that I have?
So if it's a feeling of there's never enough money, maybe I might look at like, okay, have I set up an emergency fund? Am I contributing to my 401k? Like, am I actually taking actions to help counteract this belief that I have?
So if it's a feeling of there's never enough money, maybe I might look at like, okay, have I set up an emergency fund? Am I contributing to my 401k? Like, am I actually taking actions to help counteract this belief that I have?
The first pace that you have to start is obviously, what do I want? And I know this feels like a really big question. And some people don't even allow themselves to go there with money because it feels like, oh, this isn't possible. Or I've never seen this happen in my family. How dare I think about building, I don't know, generational wealth or a business that I could sell or...
The first pace that you have to start is obviously, what do I want? And I know this feels like a really big question. And some people don't even allow themselves to go there with money because it feels like, oh, this isn't possible. Or I've never seen this happen in my family. How dare I think about building, I don't know, generational wealth or a business that I could sell or...
The first pace that you have to start is obviously, what do I want? And I know this feels like a really big question. And some people don't even allow themselves to go there with money because it feels like, oh, this isn't possible. Or I've never seen this happen in my family. How dare I think about building, I don't know, generational wealth or a business that I could sell or...