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Taboo Topic: Money
#8 in a series of 8
“We live in a toxic money culture.” ~Lynne Twist
Holistic money coach, Emily Shull, says that only a small percentage of her client’s money blocks are directly related to money. The rest come from how we think and feel about ourselves and that feeling has a lot to do with our early childhood experiences. We were conditioned at a young age about the purpose of money and that conditioning gave us the “rules” in which we have been functioning.
Whenever I look at the root of my own money story, it always begins in a moment when I was seven years old. My eight-year-old “boyfriend” came over to the house and I showed him my new Swiss chalet bank with the secret hidden compartment and key. He asked me for the little bit of coins in the bank and I gave it all to him. I knew that he was one of six kids and it sounded like they struggled with money. It felt natural for me to give it all away and I did not feel any remorse.
Unpacking this for decades, I can see how I was already conditioned as the oldest child to give away what was mine. I was taught to share with my sister and brother without considering my own needs and that not sharing was selfish.
The conditioning of women and money was also ingrained in me from the collective. When I was born, women in the United States could not have a bank…
