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Hi, my name is Lindsay, and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday morning.

Financial anxiety can feel overwhelming, affecting everything from our daily mood

to our future plans. Today, I'll share mindfulness strategies to help you understand and

interrupt negative financial thought patterns so you can feel more in control. Let's jump in.

So financial anxiety can happen to literally anyone, even for the person who seemingly has it all together financially.

They make good money. They have a hearty savings account. They have money set aside for retirement,

but they are still stressed out when they go out to eat and cannot bring themselves to order

an iced tea instead of the water that comes for free.

Why do they feel so worried?

I think a lot of us tend to judge that person, or if that's us, we tend to judge ourselves

for that behavior.

But as a financial therapist, I'd like to invite you to think about how that particular type of anxiety is keeping you safe.

So oftentimes when I meet somebody who is very anxious about spending money, oftentimes I'm asking them to go back in time to think about why that type of behavior of holding on tightly to money kept them safe.

So, for example, they might have said,

well, in my first job right out of high school, I was struggling a lot financially. I got into a lot

of credit card debt. It was so upsetting and stressful. And I finally managed to pay it off, but I'm so

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