New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Use in 2018

New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Use in 2018

2017 is now behind us and 2018 is a clean slate, waiting for us to fill in the blanks. You’ve probably already thought about New Year’s resolutions during the first week of January. If you felt any stress over money last year, you may be thinking about making some financial resolutions to prevent that from … Read More

Self-Care & Money Management: Looking After Your Money is Looking After YOU

Self-Care & Money Management: Looking After Your Money is Looking After YOU

I want to introduce to you the concept of thinking of managing your money as part of your overall self-care.  Wikipedia says, “self-care is any necessary human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated”. Simply put, as this fact sheet says, “self-care is care provided for you, by you”. Read anything on … Read More

Re-frame Your Thinking: Developing a Positive Money Mindset

Re-frame Your Thinking: Developing a Positive Money Mindset

Your success with managing money (success as in being proficient, not necessarily in being wealthy) has a lot to do with how you think about money. This correlation has been studied for decades and proven time and time again. If you want to get better at managing your money, if you want to remove financial … Read More

Down to One Bar? Time to Recharge Your Battery

Down to One Bar? Time to Recharge Your Battery

“When all else fails, take a nap” — unknown (or maybe Mom) In addition to working as a counsellor and writing for Suddenly Single Survival Guide, I’m also an avid photographer. Having learned with a film camera, I have embraced digital photography wholeheartedly. But, as much as I love my camera, it does not work if … Read More

7 Steps for Dealing With Financial Stress

7 Steps for Dealing With Financial Stress

In my last post I talked about how, during the process of settling your spouse/partner’s estate, you’ll have to go through all of the financial and business accounts. While doing so, it’s a good time to take stock, tally everything up, and do a check of your own net worth. It’s also a good time … Read More

What is the one thing I need to attend to right now?

What is the one thing I need to attend to right now?

“I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.” ― David Allen (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity) Grief is paralyzing. You know you need to do something but you are too overwhelmed to do anything more than sit … Read More

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