Welcome to lesson four of Financial Sobriety School. Today is going to be all about the first foundation of Financial Sobriety, Understanding your Financial Feelings.

One thing I know to be so true is that when people are having a hard time with money, when negative stuff is coming up about money, when there's negative feelings, when there's narrative kind of happening in the background with the money, most of the time, it has nothing to do with the money, it has to do with the behaviors and patterns behind the money.

It has to do with the patterns, it has to do with the feelings that we're trying to push down, that we're trying to numb out. We try to replace the feelings with numbing out on our spending and buying things that we think are going to make us happy.

Think when you have been in a space where you have felt really emotional, really stressed out, anxious, and what is one of the first things you reach for? Maybe your phone for example. There's an impulse that happens...

Welcome to lesson three, my favourite subject, Sober Spending. This is the fourth foundation in the seven foundations of Financial Sobriety School. I'll go through each foundation as the week's go on but  I wanted to start with Sober Spending, because as of today, you can actually register for a three-day class that I'm going to be hosting called Sober Spending, you can register for that today! It is at www.lindaparmar.com/soberspending. We're going to be having the class from April 19th -21^st 2023.

I'm going to be hosting this time for you to be able to do some Sober Spending, have some experience with it, learn the foundation of Sober Spending, I'm so excited!  I wanted to tell you a little bit about what Sober Spending is. It's one of the biggest pieces overall with our money. Dealing with the emotions and dealing with the numbing out. All of this is a core foundation of Financial Sobriety. How we spend our money, how we plan to spend our money, and being able to...