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Tessler, Bari

 
9781946764102: The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1946764108 ISBN 13: 9781946764102
Verlag: Parallax Press, 2018

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MEET YOUR FINANCIAL THERAPIST: Improve your financial literary and heal your relationship with money using this 3-part framework combining mindfulness, radical self-love, and body awareness.

“An exciting, important voice to the money conversation . . . at once spiritual and practical, this is the education we've been waiting for.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money

For many of us, the most challenging and upsetting relationship in our lives is with our finances—and it often brings feelings of shame or powerlessness. Enter Bari Tessler, your new financial therapist and money-savvy best friend. Her “Art of Money” program gives you the tools you need to improve your financial literary and heal your money anxiety in 3 phases:
 
• Money Healing: Heal money shame through body-based check-ins, transformative money rituals, and by reframing your “money story”.

• Money Practices: Learn to approach money as a self-care practice—with advice on values-based bookkeeping, finding financial support, and setting up helpful tracking systems.

• Money Maps: Designed to evolve with you over time, the 3-Tier Money Map helps you make good money decisions and affirm your money legacy.

Bari Tessler’s gentle techniques weave together mindfulness, emotional depth, big-picture visioning, and refreshingly accessible money practices. A feminine and empowering guide, The Art of Money will help you transform your relationship with money—and in doing so, transform your life.

Check out The Art of Money Workbook for more insights and teachings.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bari Tessler, MA Somatic Psychology, is a financial therapist and founder of the Art of Money, a year-long money school. Her work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, USA Today, The Cut, Girlboss, Nerd Wallet, Real Simple, MindBodyGreen, and REDBOOK. She has been featured on the covers of Experience Life and Mindful.

Tessler's unique methodology integrates the worlds of somatic therapy and financial management within a healing context, celebrating the transformative power of working directly with our relationship with money. Her integrative approach weaves together emotional healing and real–world practices in the context of each individual’s life story. She honors financial healing as a gateway to self–awareness, mindfulness, compassion, confidence, and self–worth. Her approach is gentle, un–shaming, and playful.

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An Elephant Worth Friending
 
You believe a good life is a conscious one. You reflect deeply, question the status quo, and infuse your decisions with good intentions. You might not have it all figured out, but you’re pretty sure the meaning of life has something to do with being as loving, compassionate, and mindful as possible, in big choices and teensy ways, every day: from smiling at passersby to being a conscious parent to finding a way to make a big, positive impact on the world with your one beautiful life.

Normally, you’ll look the toughest taboo in the eye. (Heck: you’ll pour it a glass of wine and share a few laughs.) From body image to spirituality, diet to a meaningful career, you’ve gotten brave, gotten honest, and worked to create healthier, more intimate and mindful relationships with yourself, with others, and with the different aspects of your life.

But there’s one nagging exception. An area of your life that you’d rather not think about, let alone talk about. One last taboo that can still turn your palms sweaty and give you that icky, pit-in-the-stomach feeling. It’s the elephant in the room.

MONEY.

Money was the elephant in the room during that family dinner when you announced your new career—and watched your parents panic. Money was the elephant sitting between you and your sweetie that weekend you gave each other the cold shoulder after fighting about whether to take a vacation this year. Money was the elephant in the room when you berated yourself after splurging on those boots you weren’t sure you could afford.

Probably, money has been the elephant in the room your whole life. Because here’s the truth: no one has taught you how to really deal with him.

You’ve tried following mainstream “money guru” frameworks and creating super-strict budgets to whip the elephant into submission. But you inevitably fall off the wagon and feel like a failure.
You’ve toyed with more spiritual ideas of “money as energy” and tried to cultivate a mindset of abundance. But without grounded practices and financial know-how, this quickly devolved into mere wishful thinking.

You’ve tried turning your back on the elephant, sticking your head in the sand, and tossing bank statements, unread, straight into the trash. But the elephant is still there . . . and ignoring him is getting awkward.

You’re not alone. When I introduce myself as a “financial therapist,” someone who helps people with their relationship to money, I invariably get the response, “Oooooh, I need that!” Since teaching my first financial workshop in a cozy living room over fifteen years ago, I have been fascinated to learn that absolutely everyone, regardless of age, race, gender, economic background, or musical taste, has shame and stuck places around money. Yet we also all have our strengths, dreams, and gifts in the financial realm.

Money isn’t just about the numbers: it’s also about our relationship with ourselves. In order to shift our relationship with money, then, we must untangle old patterns and challenge our assumptions about ourselves. This is tender work, and I have learned that a nurturing, gentle, and radically un-shaming approach is the only way. The compassionate path is far, far more effective in creating sustainable transformation than the self-critical one. Yes, it’s challenging! Yet when we embark on this journey, we can also cultivate greater awareness, peace, and joy than we ever thought possible.

Along my journey with money, both as a financial therapist and in my personal life, I have reexamined the toxic and unhelpful idea that money isn’t “spiritual” or compatible with a creative life. I have learned, instead, that building a healthy relationship with money helps ground all aspects of life. If you already have a mindfulness practice, expanding it to include how you handle money will strengthen it by leaps and bounds, and if you don’t have a mindfulness practice, money is, perhaps surprisingly, a beautiful place to start.

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While nothing is taboo in my approach to money (and all of you is welcome here), there are certain aspects of money that you won’t find thoroughly examined in this book, simply because they’re not my specialty. One of these is the “macro” side of money: the long lens and big picture view of global economics, historical trends, systems, social activism, and cultural structures. This “macro” side of money is real, worthwhile, and important stuff, and I love learning more about it from my favorite economists (see the Resources section for some suggested reading). Yet the methodology outlined in this book focuses first and foremost inside rather than outside, on what I call the “micro” side of money: our individual, internal relationship with money. I’ve chosen this approach because it makes the most sense to me—yet also because I’ve seen, over and over again, just how powerful it is. Like a pebble falling into a still pond, the benefits of personal money work ripple out into our close relationships, larger communities, and beyond. You heal an old money wound deep inside . . . then find a little more patience for your sweetie during his money freakout . . . then he makes a brave financial choice at work . . . and the ripples continue onward and outward. From this deeply intimate starting point, then, we can create a global conscious money movement. Goodness knows, we could use one.

I emphasize these deep places within our money relationship, rich with personal meaning, because in my experience, unless we first turn within and heal our emotional relationship with money, no external changes (no matter how savvy) will stick.

However, I also love teaching the practical, external side of money, and have learned how empowering and important this is. Put nuts on bolts, tighten them down, and get things done. In this book, then, you will find many of the money practices and tools I’ve found indispensable—yet I will always invite you to make these practices your own, and to define financial maturity, success, and ease for yourself. You might end up learning how to “spend less and save more” in this book, but it won’t be in the way you think . . . and it certainly won’t be the main thing you learn. Together, we will approach money in ways that nourish your body, mind, and spirit as much as your bank account. · · · · ·

In that first money workshop I taught many years ago, one woman joked nervously, “It’s easier to talk about my sex life than my credit score!” While I passionately advocate for more openness and honesty about money, I also realize how difficult this can be. That’s why, from the start, I’ve taught about money through sharing my own money challenges, riddles, and triumphs. This book is full of these stories, as well as the stories of some of the many different kinds of people I’ve encountered in this work, from young to old, broke to flush, urban mid-career professionals to rural farmers. My hope is that these stories will inspire you to shine compassionate light on your own Money Story. Because when we speak the truth about money, deep healing happens. Taboos are broken, veils lift, and radiance breaks forth.

I believe our money work is never done, but rather evolves, right along with us, from cradle to grave —and I am no exception to this rule. That’s why, in this book, I share so openly about my challenges and lessons learned about money, both past and present.

That said, I have moved...

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Verlag
Parallax Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1946764108
ISBN 13 
9781946764102
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
296
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