Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success

An invaluable, hands-on guide to understanding your financial past while building a secure financial future In Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success, award-winning financial therapist Rahkim Sabree delivers a deeply honest and supportive discussion of how to get to the root of your financial trauma. The author helps you identify triggers for nervous system dysregulation that result in financial anxiety and financial stress, demonstrating the importance of financial psychology and behavioral finance, as well as financial therapy as an effective solution. This book introduces Rahkim's 3 E framework for overcoming financial trauma as a healing reframe for everyone who has been primed to view their financial failures through a lens of personal shortcomings. You'll learn how to navigate the guilt, shame, and fear that naturally arise from this old mindset. You'll also find: Introductions to effective financial education, along with an acknowledgement of systemic barriers to financial success and social commentary Exercises utilizing mindfulness and personal audits Culturally relevant personal anecdotes and real-life stories of overcoming formidable obstacles A powerful new resource for human resource professionals, first-generation high-income earners, and anyone else doing their best to make their financial way in a market that's increasingly challenging to navigate, Overcoming Financial Trauma is filled with actionable strategies and a liberating new way of understanding your financial choices and situation.