So many of us want so bad to start working on our Financial Sobriety. 

We have the intention to start but we have no idea where to start and then we keep coming up against a big wall. 

What is that big wall that is holding you back from working on your Financial Sobriety? 

It is very common to feel paralyzed/frozen when it comes to our money. Our society is very focused on negative stigma's with money. What if we thought about how to turn that around. 

What if we rebelled out against our consumerist, capitalist society and decided that negative stigma is no longer how we want to think about money? 

What is one small step you can take to start your Financial Sobriety?

In this lesson Linda will walk you through many idea's and intentions to get you started on moving forward in your Financial Sobriety.

Active addiction can have you living in survival mode. It is a cycle that keeps going and going as you struggle to break the habit. 

In this episode Linda talks aboue how important it is for us to forive ourselves for what we did to survive in our spending addiction/overspending. 

A huge AHA moment is had in this episode and being able to witness what forgiving ourselves for who we were in that moment looks like. 

Our overall Financial Sobriety can feel really hard and when we can start to look through the lense of being in survival mode it can start to give us the permission to welcome forgiveness to ourselves. 

Be gentle with your heart and your money. 

When we start our sobriety or recovery with our drug/substance of choice we can often think we are going to all of a sudden have more money since we are no longer taking part in our addiction. 

In today's episode Linda breaks down ways that getting sober can result in having more money but more often than not it can also come at a cost. It never equals the actual cost that your active addiction will bring you. There is more cost than just financial. 

There are many ways to have a look at Financial Sobriety when you are first entering sobriety/recovery from a drug/substance of choice without getting completely overwhelmed and balancing your life to keep your main focus on your overall sobriety. 

Enjoy Lesson 6! If you love the show and episode please leave a review to bring others to the show and of course Linda would apprecait it:)

Living your Financial Sobriety is starting to dig under the surface and understand why you are taking part in the behaviours of addictive, compulsive, unconscious overspending. 

There are so many parallels when it comes to the behaviours that we take part in when we are active in many addictions, including drinking. 

In this episode Linda explains how the patterns and behaviours of your overspending are exactly how you felt/feel in your addiction of drinking, or any other behaviour you are in recovery from. As my friends at She Recovers say, we are all recovering from something. 

The episode is an invitation to question what is really best for you, why the behaviours are showing up and starting to stand in your truth. 

Our feelings are a gateway to understanding our behaviours with money. 

Have you ever checked in with your feelings when impulses to spend money come up?

When we are stuck in the addictive cycle of overspending we are often trying to escape from reality and fill a void. We are reaching outside ourselves to feel something different. 

In Lesson 4 Linda explains the first foundation of Financial Sobriety School - Understanding your financial feelings and giving you tips on how to do this and connect to yourself and your spending. 

One of the main foundations of Financial Sobriety School is Sober Spending. 

Sober Spending is planning your spending and making clear, conscious, mindful, aligned decisions with your spending. 

We live in a capitalist and consumer based society and we are encouraged to buy everything we see. We are inundated with advertising to purchase everything we don't need. 

Practicing sober spending will keep you focused and staying within your spending plan. 

Make decisions about your spending with a sober mindset! 

Financial Sobriety School is hosting a free class from April 19-21st to teach you how to practice Sober Spending. 

Link to sign up: 

https://www.lindaparmar.com/soberspending

Would love to see you there!

In the second lesson of Financial Sobriety School I share my Financial Sobriety Story. 

I am extremely grateful for my story and even though feeling financially out of control and at the bottom I know that it all happened for me to be able to be here and share this to help support you. 

Turning my mess into my message has been really important to me. 

Removing the stigma of shame surrounding our money is crucial to be able to move forward in your financial sobriety. I wear my heart on my sleeve. 

Enjoy my story! 

Welcome to Financial Sobriety School! 

This podcast was previously known as Your Money, Your Recovery and with a new facelift of my business I have renamed the show to Financial Sobriety School with Linda Parmar. 

In Lesson 1 I am going to explain what the Financial Sobriety School is and what the meaning of Financial Sobriety is. 

School is in session and I am so excited to share all my expertise on Financial Sobriety with you!

Money can feel really hard sometimes; right now everything has increased in price. Just shopping for groceries right now feels like it eats up (literally) all the money you have allocated for the month/week. 

It can feel overwhelming when everything is this expensive so focusing on what you can control with your money is really important. 

In this episode, Linda breaks down what you can and can't control with your money and tips to get you through this hard time. 

Welcome to 2023! In this episode Linda talks all about setting intentions vs resolutions with your money. It's time to focus on how we want to feel with our money instead of coming from a place of shame and trying to change something that is "wrong" with us. 

Link to sign up for the free workshop - Design your financial vision for 2023:

https://www.lindaparmar.com/2023