Money & mental health
The two-way street between your mind and your money
How money and mental health shape each other — plus brain-friendly systems, plans built for bad days, and the free help that makes it lighter.
4 lessons · about 25 minutes total · 100% free
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1. The money and mind connection
Understand why money stress shows up as lost sleep and avoidance, why scarcity eats mental bandwidth, how conditions make money tasks harder, and where to interrupt the loop.
6 min read
2. When your brain fights your budget
Name the patterns — anxious avoidance, depression's energy cost, ADHD forgetting, compulsive spending — and build autopay, a simple budget and one money day that work with your brain.
6 min read
3. Building money systems that survive bad days
Design the lowest-energy version of your finances: autopay and auto-save, a small buffer in high-yield savings, pre-decided rules, and a written bad-day plan a low week can't break.
6 min read
4. Getting help without shame
Reach 988, a warmline, community clinics and sliding-scale therapy on one side; nonprofit credit counseling and benefits navigators on the other — and spot the debt-relief pitch.
7 min read