Why Self-Compassion is Important During Tax Time
When it comes time to reflect on the financial choices you've made over the last year, shame and guilt, along with many other emotions, are likely to show their faces. Many people spend tax time berating themselves for mistakes or missed opportunities. I'd like to suggest a different approach. Instead of shaming and blaming ourselves, what if we tried empathy? [...]
3 Things to Look For During Your Weekly Money Check-In
One of the best ways to feel better about your money? It's to check in with it regularly. In my most recent episode of Financial Self Care Friday, I shared how paying attention to our money, rather than ignoring or avoiding it, helps reduce anxiety and fear. In my e-Book, 9 Secrets to Financial Self Care, I've shared the importance [...]
Book Review: It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver
I'm curious, what feelings come up for you when you read the title of Tosha Silver's book, It's Not Your Money? Do you scoff or disapprove? Are you intrigued? Perhaps something else entirely comes up for you, or a mix of both. Today's book review is focusing on a book that deals with a popular topic on this blog: money [...]
Is Your Money Affecting Your Relationships?: 3 Tips to Cultivate A Healthier Money Relationship
How we interact with our money can affect how we interact with others, and ourselves. So it's important to tend to our relationship with money, in order to keep things clear in our other relationships! Today, I'm talking about three different ways that money may be affecting your relationships, and how you can begin to cultivate a healthier relationships with [...]
My #1 System for Achieving Financial Goals
You reach your goals if you work on them regularly. Things happen one day, one week, one month at a time. So, it might come as no surprise to you that my #1 system for achieving financial goals is making regular time for financial self care. I've seen this work with many clients and know that in personal experience, this [...]
4 Strategies for Setting Doable Financial Goals
If you set financial goals that are way out of your reach, you're setting yourself up for defeat and disappointment. Rather than curtail your progress with emotional roadblocks, try simplifying your financial goal-setting for this year. These four strategies can help you create goals that are meaningful, motivating, and realistically achievable. Check in With Your Values Check in with your [...]
The Key to Doing Money Well? It’s Your Values
It's the New Year, and goals are on everyone's mind. You might be thinking about a few potential financial goals. Perhaps you want to save more, pay down some debt, or spend less. All of these are honorable pursuits, but we need to make sure your goals get started off on the right foot. How do we do that? By [...]
Celebrate Good Times: Enjoy Your Financial Wins!
My number one tip for financial self care is celebration. Specifically, celebrating your financial wins. A financial win is any instance where you get a little bit closer to a goal you’ve set for yourself. So even if it’s just saving an extra $5, resisting the urge to spend on something small, paying down your debt just a bit, or [...]
Your Year in Money: How & Why to Reflect on Your Year
Reflecting on your year as it comes to a close is an important and time-honored activity. When you're reminiscing and re-evaluating, don't forget to think about your money, too! Considering how this year went for you financially is an important part of the process. Here's the why and how of it: Why Reflect? Reflecting on your financial journey throughout 2021 [...]
At Peace With Money’s Best of the Blog 2021
This year at At Peace With Money, we covered a lot of great topics on the blog, so I thought it might be a great time to do a "best of" post to wrap up the year. Collected below are our top 10 blog articles from the past year. The topics run the gamut from money affirmations to taxes, but [...]
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