Overview

An invaluable, hands-on guide to understanding your financial past while building a secure financial future In Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success, award-winning financial therapist Rahkim Sabree delivers a deeply honest and supportive discussion of how to get to the root of your financial trauma. The author helps you identify triggers for nervous system dysregulation that result in financial anxiety and financial stress, demonstrating the importance of financial psychology and behavioral finance, as well as financial therapy as an effective solution. This book introduces Rahkim's 3 E framework for overcoming financial trauma as a healing reframe for everyone who has been primed to view their financial failures through a lens of personal shortcomings. You'll learn how to navigate the guilt, shame, and fear that naturally arise from this old mindset. You'll also find: Introductions to effective financial education, along with an acknowledgement of systemic barriers to financial success and social commentary Exercises utilizing mindfulness and personal audits Culturally relevant personal anecdotes and real-life stories of overcoming formidable obstacles A powerful new resource for human resource professionals, first-generation high-income earners, and anyone else doing their best to make their financial way in a market that's increasingly challenging to navigate, Overcoming Financial Trauma is filled with actionable strategies and a liberating new way of understanding your financial choices and situation.

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Author:   Rahkim Sabree
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781394341245

ISBN 10:   1394341245
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   04 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword ix Preface xi Part I: Exposure — Introducing Financial Trauma 1 Chapter 1: Unpacking Generational and Genetic Financial Trauma 3 Chapter 2: Vicarious Trauma and Financial Fear Through Observation 15 Chapter 3: The Trauma of Poverty and Financial Instability 25 Chapter 4: Human Capital, Human Cost: Workplace and Employment Trauma 33 Chapter 5: Institutional and Systemic Financial Trauma 45 Chapter 6: Family, Societal, and Religious Expectations 53 Part II: Education — Exploring Contextual Frameworks and Methods 71 Chapter 7: How Financial Trauma Manifests in the Mind and Body 73 Chapter 8: Understanding Financial Avoidance and Shame 85 Chapter 9: Financial Literacy as an Intervention Method 97 Chapter 10: Banking and Financial Services 107 Chapter 11: Budgeting, Saving, and Financial Planning with a Healing Mindset 119 Part III: Execution — Implementing Strategies for Financial Healing 125 Chapter 12: Rewriting Your Financial Narrative 127 Chapter 13: Setting Financial Boundaries 139 Chapter 14: Building a Financial Support System 151 Chapter 15: Financial Therapy and Alternative Healing 163 Chapter 16: How to Build a Financial Wellness Program 179 Chapter 17: Philanthropy and Social Responsibility 189 References 197 Acknowledgments 199 About the Author 201 Index 203

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RAHKIM SABREE is an award-winning financial therapist and an Accredited Financial Counselor®. He’s a Forbes columnist, key­note speaker, and author who specializes in financial trauma, broaching such topics as wealth, mental health, and race. His work has been seen or featured in TED talks, The New York Times, Investopedia, Black Enterprise, The Grio, CNBC Make It, Busi­ness Insider, and more.

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