Week 1

Understanding your Financial Feelings

• Learning about the foundation of Financial Sobriety and how to incorporate this into your life.
• Checking in with your emotions/feelings when you start working on your money. 
• Creating a grounded practice to connect with your money 
• Turning your decisions from from unconscious to conscious and make clear, aligned, mindful decisions with your money. 
• Understand why you are the way you are with money and identifying what you want to change to THRIVE with your money. 
• Being intentional with feelings and being in touch with your body as you navigate feeling safety with money.

Week  2 

Identifying Triggers

• Understanding what leads you to addictive spending.
• Self reflection of your patterns and behaviours that are coming up in your spending and why. 
• Creating emotional awareness of when you are spending.
• Identify stores, websites etc. where you frequently spend.
• Where is social pressure showing up in your spending?
• Investigating the window of resilience in supporting your financial decisions.
• What are you trying to heal with your spending?
•  Starting to become mindful with your spending and be intentional with what you are buying. 
• Understanding needs vs. wants when spending.

Week 3

Sober Spending

• Breaking the cycle of addictive and impulse spending. 
• Learning how to make clear, aligned, intentional, mindful decisions with your money.
• Make decisions with spending money from a sober mindset. 
• Planning your spending with a spending plan
• Investigating the "why" behind the buy. 
• Weighing needs vs. wants when deciding on the purchase of an item. 
• Setting spending boundaries to ensure that you are spending in alignment with your goals. 
• Understanding and practicing the power of the pause. 

Week 4

Financial Inventory

• Collecting your data on your fixed expenses/bills and have the information all in one place
• Gather information regarding your income, whether from job, self-employment, retirement income etc. 
• Create worksheet that details your debt with balances, minimum payments and interest rates. This information will be used to create a debt payback plan.
• Complete a subscription inventory to ensure that you are using all the apps and services you are paying for.
• Understand your annual and periodic expenses to create a system to save money monthly for these costs.
• Have an overall understanding of your money and what you plan to do with it.

Week 5 

Financial Sobriety Tools

• Exploring the many resources available to you to help managing your Financial Sobriety.
• Find out what is the best way for you to keep track of your money with either apps, spreadsheets etc. 
• Get a system of accounts that work for you to spend your money.
• Explore having money dates with yourself and organizing your money and CELEBRATING your money.
• Create a daily practice to connect with your money
• Investigating the window of resilience in supporting your financial decisions.
• Completing stress cycle of money and not hanging on to money stress
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Week 6

Wrap up and  celebrations

• Celebrate all that you have accomplished breaking free from addictive spending.
• Determine what next steps to take to ensure you follow through with your action plan.
• Identify your biggest takeaway with your Financial Sobriety and what you are excited about moving forward. 
• Ensuring you have all the information you need to feel confident in working your Financial Sobriety. 
• Practice being PROUD of yourself. 

Wendy K.

"I never thought I would feel successful with my money. I was convinced that I could never figure it out. Until I met Linda. Taking Linda's group coaching was exactly what I needed to be happy with the progress I am making. I highly recommend Linda's groups to ANYONE who thinks they will never be good with money."