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Financial Trauma: Why Money Isn't Just About Money
You are capable, intelligent, and driven in other areas of your life, but when it comes to money, a powerful and mysterious force seems to keep you stuck in cycles of anxiety, avoidance, or self-sabotage. You know what you should do, so why can’t you do it?
The truth is often that your money problems are not a character flaw or a failure of willpower. They are protective responses driven by financial trauma, a common wound reported by 68% of adults.
In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Wendy Molyneux, MSW, synthesizes trauma theory, neuroscience, and human stories into a definitive framework for understanding the money-trauma connection. This book offers the deep understanding that breaks the spiral and makes real change possible.
It will provide you with the foundational understanding and actionable tools
Move beyond Learn the neuroscience behind your patterns and shift from the paralyzing question, What's wrong with me? to the liberating question, What happened to me?
Map your Identify the full spectrum of trauma responses—fight, flight, freeze, and fawn—as they show up in your specific financial behaviors.
Regulate your nervous Master practical, evidence-based grounding techniques to calm your body and stay regulated during stressful money tasks, moving out of reactivity.
Exit the shame Gain clarity on the systemic and generational roots of your trauma and the power of self-compassion.
This deeply researched work is the essential foundation you need to understand your responses, honor your nervous system, and finally make financial choices that align with your values.
Isn't it time to stop seeing your money patterns as a character flaw and start seeing them as a solvable issue?
The truth is often that your money problems are not a character flaw or a failure of willpower. They are protective responses driven by financial trauma, a common wound reported by 68% of adults.
In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Wendy Molyneux, MSW, synthesizes trauma theory, neuroscience, and human stories into a definitive framework for understanding the money-trauma connection. This book offers the deep understanding that breaks the spiral and makes real change possible.
It will provide you with the foundational understanding and actionable tools
Move beyond Learn the neuroscience behind your patterns and shift from the paralyzing question, What's wrong with me? to the liberating question, What happened to me?
Map your Identify the full spectrum of trauma responses—fight, flight, freeze, and fawn—as they show up in your specific financial behaviors.
Regulate your nervous Master practical, evidence-based grounding techniques to calm your body and stay regulated during stressful money tasks, moving out of reactivity.
Exit the shame Gain clarity on the systemic and generational roots of your trauma and the power of self-compassion.
This deeply researched work is the essential foundation you need to understand your responses, honor your nervous system, and finally make financial choices that align with your values.
Isn't it time to stop seeing your money patterns as a character flaw and start seeing them as a solvable issue?
189 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2026
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