Do You Know Your Money Numbers?
By Wendy Wright, LMFT, Financial Therapist
Today, I’m thrilled to share my most recent podcast interview with you. I spoke with Carmen Hecox, the host of the Create the Best Me podcast about money, emotions, and financial therapy. My episode, titled How to Transform Your Relationship With Money, dropped at the start of the month. Check it out on YouTube or Apple Podcasts.
Let’s get right to it!
When it comes to money numbers, numbers are not just numbers.
Money numbers are not simply data points. These are containers of story and emotions – and sometimes fog and chaos. Let’s apply Principle #1 of my 10 Principles of Financial Therapy©: Compassionate Curiosity and Zero Judgment to the process of knowing your numbers.
What do you experience when thinking about approaching your money numbers? Is it giddy excitement, dread, forgetfulness, or even flat out rage? Whatever your answer, it’s okay to allow what is happening to happen. This is just your starting point. Remember: Money work is always shifting.
You know that feeling that happens in your body when someone asks you for a money number — the tightening of your throat, the tension in your tummy, the freak out in your head? Or maybe you experience such deep avoidance that, when you start to look at your numbers, you fall asleep! These are real sensations and real messages from your nervous system. It’s okay to have them. My Financial Therapy Approach helps you honor the current feelings and move toward the desired feelings. It also supports you in moving forward, getting unstuck from past money behaviors and patterns.
Imagine if knowing your money numbers brought peace, comfort, confidence, and freedom to your life.
I am on a mission to help 100 women this year step into knowing their numbers. You don’t need to stay in a relationship because of money or because you don’t know or understand your money numbers. I don’t want you to feel stuck in a job because of a lack of clarity around your finances.
In my Money Mindset Shift Program, I talk more about this idea and offer guided support through this emotional journey of connecting with money numbers. For a deeper dive, check out this lesson from Step 7: Clarity Shifts for free for a limited time.
We can do this work during sessions together too! Three or four financial therapy sessions, geared to focus on what keeps you blocked from knowing your numbers, can make a life-changing difference.
So what can happen when you know your numbers, when you are clear on your money snapshot?
What about when you have a clear sketch of a money plan and when you have the tools to get to where you want to be? Well, you can make decisions based on things other than money fog, money anxiety, and money fears. You can go deeper into your true self and true desires. Plus, you may find a way to decide for yourself if you want to stay or go with that relationship – because you feel financially confident and wise. You may be able to stay in the job because you have new awareness and new boundaries with yourself and the position. Or you may be able to build a clear and confident plan to change your situation and free yourself from feeling stuck in a situation. Imagine no longer feeling trapped because you are uncertain about money. It’s so empowering!
Do you want to be one of the 100 women I help this year? Book a discovery call today to get started!
