If you feel anxious about money even though you have savings, it is often a belief you absorbed in childhood, like "money doesn't grow on trees", still running underneath your decisions. Catherine Morgan, former financial adviser and founder of The Money Panel®, explains where these borrowed beliefs come from and a practice to change them.

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This is episode 1 of Money Psychology: Borrowed Beliefs, a season on the money sentences we inherit and what they are still doing in our lives.

In this episode, you'll discover:

✨ Why you can feel anxious about money even though you have savings

✨ How childhood beliefs about money, like "money doesn't grow on trees", affect you as an adult

✨ What a borrowed belief is, and how money sentences pass down through families

✨ Why money anxiety pulls you into the past and the future, and away from the money you have now

✨ Why so many women were taught to save while others were taught to invest

✨ Truth testing: a money psychology practice to question your money sentence and choose one that's yours

Your money patterns are learnt responses, shaped by the people who raised you and the world they lived in. They can be met, understood and changed.

Full show notes and transcript:

https://catherinemorgan.com/podcastarchive/why-do-i-feel-anxious-about-money-even-though-i-have-savings/

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Why do I feel anxious about money even though I have savings?

2:15 How do childhood beliefs about money affect adults?

8:50 What is a borrowed belief?

12:30 Why don't my savings make me feel safe? Is this money trauma?

16:20 What is a somatic approach to money?

17:20 Why were women taught scarcity differently?

20:20 How do I find and change my money beliefs?

25:35 For coaches and advisers: what is money psychology training for financial planners?

26:45 Join The Money Circle®

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Is Inherited Trauma Keeping You Poor? https://youtu.be/1qt6FQZglJA

Why Smart People Still Struggle with Money https://youtu.be/EV8EseqOVi8

My book, It's Not About the Money: https://catherinemorgan.com/book/

FOR COACHES AND FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS:

Free Financial Coach Taster, Thursday 19 November: https://www.themoneypanel.co.uk/taster

Financial Coach Certification: https://themoneypanel.co.uk/

ABOUT CATHERINE:

Catherine Morgan is a financial coach trainer, keynote speaker and author who works on the psychology, nervous system and somatic side of money. A former regulated financial adviser with over 20 years in financial services, she has trained financial professionals in coaching since 2018. Her podcast, It's Not About the Money, is in the global top 0.5%. The Money Panel® runs the UK's only financial coach certification that combines practical money expertise with psychological and somatic modalities.

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