What you learned about money, before you earned any, still drives your money decisions.
What makes your money decisions before you do: patterns you did not choose, and parts of you working against your own prosperity. Seven modules, one for each week, 30 exercises.
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The practical answers, and where they stop
You have probably already tried fixing your financial life using the practical answers: writing everything down, or handing your spending to an app that sorts it for you. They work on what you earn and spend. The questions underneath are of another kind: why can I never save money, I feel guilty spending money on myself. A spreadsheet can't answer either one.
Those patterns were set in childhood, without you noticing, and they are still making these decisions.
You can know the number in your account and still not want to look at it.
What this is
- Seven weeks on your relationship with money: what you do with your money without noticing, and where that came from
- Work on the patterns underneath what you do: inheritance, dependency, sabotage, and what you believe about scarcity
- Energy and breathing work, offered as exercises you do yourself.
What this is not
- Not financial advice
- No budgeting, no investing, no spreadsheets
- Not therapy, and not a replacement for it
Seven weeks, seven moves
Seven modules, one module per week.
- Week 1Financial CrossroadsWhere you stand, and the four ways people relate to money: running from it, living in financial drama, holding it too tightly, or moving with it.
- Week 2Financial Exchanges and the Illusion of DebtMoney as an exchange, and debt as a set of agreements nobody consciously made.
- Week 3Breaking Free from DependencyHidden dependencies, and the security people expect to arrive from outside themselves.
- Week 4Releasing Scarcity BeliefsInherited fear, and where beliefs about scarcity come from.
- Week 5Facing the Deep Shadows of MoneyThe hardest one. The parts of you that sabotage your own prosperity, and the pride, envy, drama and false humility underneath them.
- Week 6New Financial Frequency and MagnetismWhat changes once you have integrated those, and creating value out of who you are.
- Week 7Consolidating ProsperityMaking it hold under pressure.
A book you use, not just read
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Each week, in practice
Read, then do
Read the week's material first. When you reach the exercises, you already have what you need for them.
In your own notebook
Numbered steps you carry out in a notebook of your own. Have one ready before you start.
At your own speed
How long each week takes is yours to set: 7 days or 30, whichever fits your life.
Who wrote it
Livia Bueno is Brazilian, and has worked one to one with clients, helping them improve their relationship with money. Seven Weeks with Your Money is the English edition of a programme first offered in Portuguese, grounded in her own experience. Getting out of debt, establishing herself through several different financial situations, and moving to a new country all helped shape these steps, which she lived and applied herself first.
Find more of her writing on spirituality and consciousness in the essays.
Questions
- Pay what you want — how does that work?
- The minimum is $1 and the suggested price is $29. You choose the number at checkout, and you get the same product at any price. I believe everyone should have access to knowledge, whatever their situation. If you pay the suggested price, you're helping make that possible for someone whose priorities are elsewhere right now.
- Is this financial advice?
- No. Seven Weeks with Your Money contains no budgeting, no investing, and no recommendation about what to do with your money. It works on your relationship with money, and where that relationship came from.
- What do I actually get, and how?
- A PDF and an EPUB, both included, so you can read it on any screen. After payment through this link, you'll be able to download both files immediately.
- Can I read it on a phone or a Kindle?
- Yes. The EPUB reflows for phones, tablets and Kindle. The PDF keeps its original design, and it's best viewed on a computer screen. You can also open it on a phone and zoom in to read.
Those patterns are still choosing for you.
Opening the book is choosing to find out what they are, week by week, with 30 exercises that will help you change these patterns.
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