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The Financial Mental Health Crisis and the Move Toward
Financial Mindfulness
People have a poor relationship with money. Money creates more stress than any other source
in our society. Let's face it, financial products make people feel bad. In the COVID world,
financial anxiety has sky-rocketed beyond the overwhelming financial anxiety that existed
before the pandemic. Industry solutions and even financial plans don't address the root of the
problem. Most homes have tremors and quakes of financial stress inside them. Families don't
know where to turn, and they are intimidated by the information and complexity of what they
face. They delay engaging because of the worry they are in over their heads, beyond hope, too
far behind, not wealthy enough. They think everyone else understands this better than they
do, this can wait, or they don't want to be sold or taken advantage of. Overall, there is a mental
health crisis today, and there is a financial mental health crisis that is likely even more pervasive.
If you Google "why am I feeling financial anxiety," you get the following:
