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Money Shame | Redesigning Your Relationship With Money

Bari Tessler, Relationship With Money, photograph by Aurely Cerise
Photograph by Aurely Cerise

Money shame impacts nearly everyone; redesigning our relationship with money opens the doors for greater peace and prosperity

It all started with shame, for me.

It was the shame of holding my first student loan bill in my hands, shocked by those mute, unforgiving numbers. How on earth can I pay this, every single month?! I should be farther ahead, by now. How can I possibly earn the money I want, while having the life and career I want?

It was the shame of not knowing how to “do” all this money stuff. Bank statements would arrive in the mail and I’d shrug, tossing them straight into the blue recycling bin. (What do people even do with those?) Surely, money was too ho-hum, too complicated, and too mundane for an African dancing, somatic psychotherapist-in-training, authentic movement gal like me, right? (And yet,

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