What's your earliest memory of money? Start there.
Every story has a beginning.
Not always a clear one. Not a headline or a chapter title. Just a moment. A glance. A feeling. A word you weren't meant to hear.
That was the first page of your money story.
Maybe it came in a grocery store line. Or during an argument in hushed tones. Maybe it felt like pride. Maybe it felt like shame.
We don't begin here by fixing anything. We begin by noticing. By turning toward the truth of what was, so we can understand what still lingers.
Money is rarely taught directly.
It's passed down in looks, in silences, in the mood that filled the room when the bills came. Your first money story wasn't really yours. It belonged to the people who raised you, the systems that shaped them, and the beliefs they never had the safety to question.
You have that safety now. You are allowed to rewrite the script.
Take a few minutes to sit with this question:
What is your earliest memory of money?
What happened? Who was there?
How did it feel in your body, then? And now?
You don't need to make sense of it. You don't need to change it. Just witness it.
This is where it begins: not with analysis, but with presence.
Before you could count coins or earn a cent, you learned how money made people feel.
That was your inheritance. It doesn't have to be your legacy.