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I Have PTSD. Here's What It Did To My Finances.

I Have PTSD. Here's What It Did To My Finances.25 jun22 min

Nobody in finance talks about this.

How trauma responses — freeze, flight, fight, fawn — show up in your financial decisions. And what they're actually costing you.

In this episode I share something personal: I have PTSD from experiences in my teenage years. And for a long time I didn't connect that to my finances.

Looking back — it was there in everything.

This episode covers:

— What a trauma response actually is (and why it's not what most people think)

— How freeze, flight, fight and fawn show up specifically in financial behaviour

— The fawn response — the one that costs women the most and gets talked about the least

— Three practical financial steps to take alongside therapy

— Why you cannot separate your nervous system from your bank account

If you're working through difficult experiences, please reach out to a qualified therapist.