Financial Desires: How Core Values and Beliefs Shape Your Wants and Needs 

Financial Desires: How Core Values and Beliefs Shape Your Wants and Needs As a financial educator and therapist, I speak to clients about their financial challenges, experiences, and family history. Combined, these factors can help clients form their own beliefs and values about money, which can dictate their financial behaviors. As you might imagine, these […]

Mastering Money: Proven Strategies to Boost Credit

Mastering Money: Proven Strategies to Boost Credit Credit plays a powerful role in shaping our financial futures. It can either open doors or create obstacles. My mother instilled in me the importance of managing credit wisely, and since the age of 18, I’ve made it a priority to build and maintain a strong credit profile. By the time I […]

Don’t Pay for Credit Repair: Use These Proven DIY Strategies Instead 

Don’t Pay for Credit Repair: Use These Proven DIY Strategies Instead Paying for credit repair is a costly endeavor, far exceeding the cost of repairing it yourself. There are strategies anyone can use to protect and rebuild credit including setting up two-factor authentication, freezing accounts, setting up notifications, and disputing inaccuracies. Let’s dive into these approaches and help you feel more empowered and save you […]

Breaking Free: Healing Financial Trauma After Leaving High-Demand Groups and Controlling Relationships 

Breaking Free: Healing Financial Trauma After Leaving High-Demand Groups and Controlling Relationships Leaving a high-demand group or a coercive, controlling relationship is a courageous step toward reclaiming your autonomy. Yet, if you’ve taken that step, you may find the journey to financial independence is fraught with unseen challenges. Financial trauma—rooted in manipulation, control, and deprivation—can linger long after you leave the group or the relationship has ended, shaping your money habits and […]

Three Steps to Rise Above the Debt Spiral

Three Steps to Rise Above the Debt Spiral As a personal financial counselor, I often meet with clients who find themselves in a debt spiral and don’t know how to get out of it. The debt spiral is when someone takes on debt and then gets behind on their payments. After trying different tactics, with […]