
← Uncensored Money25 jun · 22 min
I Have PTSD. Here's What It Did To My Finances.
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.
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