Tag: emotional wellbeing
Dec 1, 2025
A core purpose of my work in financial planning and financial therapy is to help clients achieve and maintain financial wellbeing. What is that, exactly? One definition I use, which comes from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is “a state of being,...
Dec 18, 2023
In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens vividly brought to life one of fiction’s most famous misers, Ebenezer Scrooge. He was a “tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint,...
Jul 18, 2022
What is financial wellbeing? A researcher based in Berlin recently asked me that question. I had a bit of a struggle answering, in part because I write and talk a lot about what financial wellbeing is not. One straightforward definition of what financial well-being is...
