The Anger-Money Connection
Because our life stories are fueled by our emotions , the path to prosperity requires recognizing the emotions that may be interfering with our progress, expressing them, and replacing them with new emotional habits.
In the past, I’ve examined at depth shame and aloneness, and for the last year, I’ve really been looking at anger and its effect on finances. Now, I’m ready to share what I’ve learned.
Anger is a complex emotion that finds many different avenues of expression. The obvious expression of anger is what we usually think of as rage. But the form of anger that is most often expressed through finances is passive aggressive behavior, which is often difficult to recognize and release.
However, I can assure you that underearning, debting, compulsive shopping, late bill paying, financial vagueness, and other behaviors frequently have anger as a motivating force. Continue reading
The Connection between Anger, Underearning, and Debting
In my book Build Your Money Muscles, I identify the five main feelings that are expressed most often through money. They include abandonment/aloneness, shame, deprivation, a sense of being trapped, and anger, which we will look at today.
Anger is a very valid emotion. Yet in many cultures people are discouraged from expressing anger in a healthy way. As a result, anger is often repressed and turned inward. Your negative self-talk can be anger directed inwards.
Anger expressed through finances shows up in a number of ways. Borrowing money without paying it back, nonpayment of taxes, late bill paying, and compulsive spending can all be expressions of anger. (Think, “I’ll show you!”) Underearning and debting are two of the most common ways that anger finds itself in finances. Continue reading
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