Three steps to help navigate your financial feelings during COVID-19

For many of us, there is a roller-coaster of feelings we’re experiencing right now — particularly when it comes to finances.

Throughout our lives we’ve been told or shown that when it comes to money, the way you feel can only be negative and limiting. What has this done? It’s formed strong, negative beliefs and associations with the combination of feelings and money. But these negative connections don’t have to remain, and you can become more of yourself in the process of working through them.  

Today we’re going to break down how to be connected and not limited by negative feelings into three effective steps. Through this, you’ll be able to shift to the positive while truly appreciating yourself in the process.  

1. Embrace the way you’re feeling
When it comes to our finances, perhaps more than anything else, we’ve been taught that our feelings are a liability. So, what happens is that we reject them in one way or another, depreciating ourselves in the process as we lock away those emotions.

Instead, one of the skills I work with my clients on is to embrace your feelings with judgement-free understanding. 

There were two key words used there with positive feelings behind them: embrace and judgement-free. As you read those words, connect to the feeling that comes with them for you. Those feelings are what will help you apply them.  

2. Shift the association 
As you focus on embracing the way you feel with a lens of judgement-free understanding, we shift from being critical (or depreciating) of yourself to appreciating yourself. Essentially, you’ve valued your feelings by granting yourself the grace of understanding. Through this, you can start to shift those deep-seated beliefs on the way you feel around money and begin to effectively work through them.  

The best part is that you start to learn so much about yourself in the process and start to take your power back to the positive.  

3. Commitment to move forward   
After giving yourself the grace of understanding, it’s time to apply the commitment to move forward. This is where you effectively transition your associations with the way you feel about money and finances from working against you to working for you. How? You’ve worked through them!  

With each feeling you work through, the association with emotions and money transitions from the belief that they’re a liability to becoming your greatest asset.  

The way you feel doesn’t have to work against you, it can work for you.

Start to apply these three steps for your feelings: Embrace, Shift, and Commit. For more information and resources I’d love to invite you to join my private Facebook Group Or head to www.marthaadamsmedia.com

To start building a meaningful connection with your money story, I’d be honored to continue this conversation with you in my book Cleopatra’s Riches