•Any emotions can be expressed through our relationship with money (good and bad)

•Establishing a connection between a dysfunctional financial pattern and our emotions helps us gain clarity on the reasons behind our behaviors

•Someone can experience a dominant negative emotion such as anger, shame, deprivation, fear, insecurity, abandonment etc. This emotion could be a result of a specific event or series of events in that person's childhood. Any unresolved emotion will linger in our experience and look for vehicles for expression. That person's financial situation could then be an avenue of expression for this "unfinished business from the past." If someone feels abandoned by their parent, for example, the can grow up to incur a lot of debt and financial misfortunes as a way to express this lingering abandonment.