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Money & Shame
How to Start Facing Your Numbers Without Shame
Avoiding your finances doesn’t mean you’re irresponsible. Learn a gentle, shame-free way to face your numbers without spiraling.

Claire Ellison
Dec 123 min read


How Shame Shapes Your Financial Habits (And How to Break Free From It)
Shame Isn’t Just a Feeling — It’s a Pattern Shame is one of the most powerful emotions shaping how we behave with money. Unlike guilt (“I made a mistake”), shame says: “I am the mistake.” It attaches itself to identity. And when shame is involved, money stops being about math and starts being about self-worth. When people talk about: emotional spending avoidance debt cycles secrecy “knowing better but not doing better” What they’re often describing is shame quietly driving th

Claire Ellison
Dec 123 min read


Why Avoidance Feels Safer Than Awareness
Avoiding your finances doesn’t mean you’re irresponsible. Learn why avoidance feels safer—and how to gently move toward awareness.

Claire Ellison
Dec 123 min read
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