Crawl Before You Ball: Breaking the Cycle of Generational Poverty

By Buffie Purselle

Financial Freedom and Financial Literacy Begins by Reprogramming Our Financial Thought Patterns

 

Crawl Before You Ball author Buffie Purselle believes that we must first tackle our financial mental health before embarking on a journey toward financial freedom. Like most behaviors, our behaviors surrounding finances are learned.

 

If your parents didn't have a good relationship with money and struggled with daily economic anxiety, it's likely that you will also. Our common disconnect from budgeting rarely stems from a lack of mathematical ability, but instead, from learned behaviors and patterns that go back for generations.

 

This book deals with the "why?" Why do we make financial decisions that wreak havoc in our lives? What is the root? Through personal anecdotes, MrsMD theory, exercises, and real talk, Buffie takes readers on a journey to reprogram their financial thought patterns so they can start living the lives they truly wish to live. It's time we break those generational financial curses so future generations can live a life of abundance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MrsMD
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985759815

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDRESSING YOUR FINANCIAL MENTAL HEALTH

LET’S GET INTO IT! First, I want to discuss your financial mental health. Yep, you read that correctly. Let’s talk about your financial mental health because no one else does, and, frankly, it is the underlying reason you have a screwed-up relationship with money.

I have never understood why mental health is considered a taboo topic. Having anxiety or suffering from depression is not a freaking weakness. I am so sick of that assertion because your brain controls everything in your body, right? If the thing that controls your entire body isn’t functioning properly, then, of course, everything else in your life will be jacked up. It’s so simple that it is actually a tad scary. Of course, I may be a little bit biased given that I live with a brilliant psychiatrist, but a bih knows what she’s talking about!

I have a suspicion that society or socieTHEY, as I call it, doesn’t want you to understand the importance of mental health because when you finally do, you will be able to do anything in this world that you want. We stop ourselves from achieving our goals 99 percent of the time because of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We must take care of our brains.

Speaking of PTSD, the love of my life, and occasional bane of my existence, the renowned psychiatrist David Purselle, MD, MSCR, has said to me repeatedly that he does not believe financial PTSD meets the clinical definition of PTSD. Now, I am just a mere MrsMD, but if the powers that be took the time to do a study or two (wink, wink, Dr. Purselle), they would see that being chronically stressed the hell out about money qualifies as PTSD.

The American Psychiatric Association defines PTSD as a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, a severe accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape, or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence, or serious injury.

According to psychiatry.org, PTSD has been known by many names in the past, such as shell shock during the years of World War I and combat fatigue after World War II, but PTSD does not just happen to combat veterans. PTSD can occur in all people of any ethnicity, nationality, culture, and age. PTSD affects approximately 3.5 percent of U.S. adults every year, and an estimated one in eleven people will be diagnosed with PTSD in their