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Your Struggles with Food Are the Same as Your Struggles with Money. Address One and You’ll Fix the Other, For a Drama-free Life with Double the Joy and Ease

Self-awareness and Self-acceptance are the Starting Points

Mariko O. Gordon, CFA

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If you have drama around weight, I bet you have it around money.

Weight loss coach Brittany Kolb and I were comparing notes and had an aha! moment. The habits and thoughts that sabotage us from having a healthy relationship with our bodies also keep us from stewarding our wealth well.

We get in our own way in more than one area of our life!

Brittany helps her clients lose weight and keep it off. As a money coach, I do the opposite.

I help clients earn more, grow fatter purses, and keep their wealth. Self-awareness and self-acceptance are the bedrock of transformational change.

We use food and money in ways that don’t serve us well:

  1. We eat pints of ice cream when we are heartbroken. We also go on a “retail therapy” shopping spree. We use food and money to numb our feelings.
  2. We go on restrictive diets to lose weight. We go on restrictive budgets to save money. Both are so…

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