Breathe deeply. Sit upright, back tall, and close your eyes. Take a deep breath in through your nose, pause slightly, and then exhale slowly through your nose. Repeat twice.
Bonus points for setting an alarm (or two or three) for later today to remind yourself to breathe.
Journaling prompt: What is your first memory about money? Who was there? What was going on? What ideas about money do you still hold from that point in time?
Gratitude: Name three people you’ve encountered that have triggered your stress response, and what you’re grateful for having learned from the experience
Journaling prompt: What are your top three financial worries or fears? Choose your number one and then write about how it would feel if that fear were gone.
Journaling prompt: Write down your top three goals for the next six months, twelve months, three years, five years, twenty years. How would achieving those goals make you feel? Consider which feelings are most important to you and write down three things you can do over the next week to create those feelings right away.