The Number One Thing To Remember About Financial Trauma

The number one thing to remember about working through financial trauma is that you aren’t going to heal by remaining in poverty. 

Money is a fact of life. It doesn’t mean you have to attach your worth to how easily or abundantly you earn money. The paradox, however, is that when you start healing your worthiness wound, usually that’s when money starts to appear more easily and abundantly.

Quoting The Wolf of Wall Street is very finance bro of me, but it’s true what Belfort says: “there is no nobility in poverty.” I think a lot of us, especially those who are anti-capitalist or even just critical of capitalism in its current form, feel a sense of guilt when we think about becoming financially resourced or even living in financial abundance. I know I often felt like (even if I wasn’t consciously aware of it yet) getting rich was a betrayal of marginalized and impoverished people. MY people. I would no longer be relatable or even trustworthy if I was to take myself out of the cycle of chronic poverty. Some part of me still feels that way occasionally. But there truly is nothing noble about keeping yourself small and, by proxy, making the scope of your life extremely small.

If you hold the core belief that everyone deserves to have their needs met *and then some,* then why aren’t you included in everyone? Why are you exempt? 

You’re not. And I’m not.