Translate Your Relationship With Money Into the Story You Were Told as a Child

Money behaviour in adults is almost always shaped by beliefs formed before the age of ten, when the family's experience of money was all there was. Scarcity, shame, secrecy, or abundance were absorbed not as facts about the world but as facts about money itself. This traces your specific current behaviour back to its probable origin and identifies the point at which the belief stops serving you, then offers a more accurate replacement.

Answer these questions as honestly as you can:

1. What did your family communicate about money when you were growing up, in words or behaviour? {FAMILY_MONEY_MESSAGES}
2. How do you currently behave with money? {CURRENT_MONEY_BEHAVIOUR}
3. Where do the two connect: which of your current money behaviours can you trace directly back to something you were taught or saw? {PERCEIVED_CONNECTIONS}

Help me understand the story I was told:
1. The core belief: the one underlying belief about money that these messages and behaviours suggest I hold, stated as a sentence I might actually think
2. Where it comes from: the most likely origin and the logic that made it a reasonable belief to form at the time it was formed
3. Where it no longer serves: the specific way this belief is costing me, now that the circumstances of its formation no longer apply
4. A more accurate belief: a belief about money that would be more accurate for my current adult situation, stated as a sentence I could genuinely hold