Judith Barr

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A Recession Regression

In my 30+ years as a psychotherapist, I have seen that people’s relationship with money—at the root—is based on a young child’s thoughts, feelings, and decisions about money and about the things money symbolizes for them. nnI have also seen that when under stress, people regress to the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of a child. They may not completely regress, they may not act on it, but they might. This happens in all of us without our awareness. And whatever we

February 18, 2009