Getting Started in Money Recovery: Healing the Traumas that Drive Money Dysfunction

With love, compassion, and humor, Nora Simpson guides spiritual seekers grappling with money dysfunction through three journeys of healing. First, she delivers step-by-step instructions for getting the best guidance and warmest love from money recovery support groups, especially Debtors Anonymous. Second, she draws clear, specific connections between traumatizing childhood experiences and self-sabotaging money behaviors in adulthood. Third, she offers a trauma-informed approach to the first three steps of Debtors Anonymous—incorporating wisdom from Al-Anon, AA, ACOA, OA, contemporary trauma research, and cutting-edge behavior transformation programs across the world. If you’re a newcomer in money recovery, grab this book and start reading. If you know even ONE other person in money recovery, read this book together out loud. If you’re a sponsor in money recovery, take your sponsees through this book. If you’re feeling stuck in money recovery, this book reveals secrets for getting unstuck in every direction: keeping numbers, scheduling PRGs, making connections, trauma breakthroughs, abundance transformations, and more. If you’re a therapist, coach, or helping professional, you’ll find tools to help your clients unlock procrastination, self-sabotage, avoidance, financial confusion, and childhood experiences haunting them into adulthood. If you’re a believer in the human spirit, grab this book and read chapters 13 through 18 to learn about the most recent 90+ years of evolving progress in trauma healing, economic opportunity, joyful success, and juicy abundance in what appeared to be the most hopeless of situations. Read more