140: Money in Midlife: Healing Your Relationship with Money

A compassionate conversation about financial stress, shame, scarcity, and how to create more peace, enoughness, and self-trust in your relationship with money.In this episode, Katie welcomes Shannah Game, certified financial planner, trauma-of-money expert, and author of Unraveling Your Relationship with Money, for a deeply compassionate conversation about money, meaning, and healing in midlife.Together, they explore why money so often feels overwhelming and why our relationship with it is shaped by far more than numbers. Shannah shares how emotions, nervous system responses, family patterns, and cultural conditioning influence the way we think about money, avoid money, or carry shame around it.Katie and Shannah discuss how scarcity, silence, and the belief that more is always better can pull us away from presence, peace, and purpose. They explore how redefining what “enough” means, both financially and emotionally, can help women in midlife feel more grounded, clear, and connected to what truly matters.This conversation also includes gentle, practical tools for healing your relationship with money. Shannah shares practices like Financial Forgiveness, embodied awareness around financial decisions, and creating money plans that honor your energy, capacity, and real life. Rather than promoting hustle, perfection, or pressure, this episode offers a more sustainable and compassionate path to financial well-being.If you are in midlife and feeling behind, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your finances, this episode is a reminder that financial peace begins with presence, not pressure.In this episode, you’ll hear:why money is emotional, not just mathematicalhow shame and scarcity affect your relationship with moneywhy money can feel especially overwhelming in midlifehow perimenopause, stress, and changing capacity shape financial well-beingwhy defining “enough” can bring more clarity and peacegentle tools for healing your relationship with moneyhow embodied awareness can support wiser financial decisionswhy financial peace begins with self-compassion and presenceEpisode Chapters00:00 Money, midlife, and the longing for peaceWhy this conversation matters and how money can affect purpose, stability, and meaning in midlife.06:00 Why money is emotional, not mathematicalShannah explains how nervous system responses, emotions, and lived experience shape money behavior.15:00 Shame, scarcity, and the feeling of not enoughHow comparison, silence, and cultural conditioning create money shame, especially for women.25:30 Midlife exhaustion, hormones, and financial healingWhy perimenopause, burnout, and changing energy can make traditional financial advice feel disconnected from real life.38:00 Redefining enough How defining enough financially and emotionally can create more relief, clarity, and peace.50:00 Compassionate tools for money healing Practical approaches like Financial Forgiveness, body awareness, and ease-based planning.Connect with Shannon📘 Book: Unraveling Your Relationship with Moneyhttps://heyshannah.com/📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/shannahgame/🌿 Website & Resources (including the Midlife Money Audit):https://heyshannah.com/About Katie FarinasKatie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with themselves and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic lives.✨ Ways To Go Deeper:If you’re ready to feel less overwhelmed and more connected to your body, needs, and inner voice, explore my 4-week private coaching experience for midlife women: Reconnect With Your Body and Yourself. Learn more here.Record your question here and I will answer it on the show!! https://www.speakpipe.com/KatieFarinasJoin the Monthly SanghaVisit Katie’s websiteJoin the newsletter for soulful insights and to receive weekly practicesRead and watch on SubstackBook a reflective Insight Seat to come on the show and receive live coachingSchedule a Clarity Call to see if my coaching is right for you.🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube: