Unraveling Your Relationship with Money

Inspiring guide to reimagining your relationship with money and finally reach your financial goals

In Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life, renowned Financial Expert and Certified Trauma of Money Specialist Shannah Game delivers an inspiring, informative, and at times cathartic guide to improve your behavioral finance skills, gently resolving deep-rooted trauma related to emotions like shame, fear, and panic surrounding money, and finally start reaching your financial goals.

This book includes dozens of stories of financial trials and tribulations from individuals from all walks of life, helping readers realize they're not alone and learn lessons from others who have faced similar situations. From Chapter 1, Game addresses the internal battles that so many of us face when it comes to money:

• You can't enjoy life or feel happy unless you have a certain amount of money in your bank account
• You feel you should be further along in your quest to build wealth
• You feel like it's too late to save for retirement, change careers, start a business, etc.

Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life is an essential read for anyone who wants to go deeper than spreadsheets and fancy apps to create an unshakeable psychological foundation for long-term wealth creation and emotional stability.

Introduction ix

Part I Why Is Your Relationship with Money Messed Up? 1

Chapter 1 How Do You Feel About Money? 3

Chapter 2 Would You Date Your Money? 15

Chapter 3 What’s the Story of Your Money? 33

Chapter 4 What’s Your Money Trauma? 51

Chapter 5 What’s Your Money Identity? 71

Part II How Can You Unravel Your Relationship with Money? 69

Chapter 6 What’s Your Money Pie? 87

Chapter 7 What Are Your Money Patterns? 103

Chapter 8 What Is Your Money Happiness Number? 117

Part III How Can You Move Forward? 133

Chapter 9 What Do You Really Want? 135

Chapter 10 What Are Your New Money Behaviors? 151

Chapter 11 How to Keep Your Relationship with Money Unraveled 165

Resources 181

Acknowledgments 189

About the Author 193

Index 195

SHANNAH GAME is a renowned financial expert and host of a popular behavioral finance podcast, Everyone’s Talkin’ Money. Inspired by her tumultuous journey trying to get her own financial life on track, she now helps others reshape their perspective towards finances and live their best lives.

Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life is more than a finance book—it’s your invitation to rewrite the story you’ve been telling yourself about money. Forget budgets, apps, and spreadsheets for a moment. This transformative guide dives into the hidden, emotional drivers behind every dollar you spend (or don’t).

Most money advice focuses on what to do with your cash, but this book takes a gutsy approach: it starts with why you do what you do with money. Through relatable, eye-opening stories—including author Shannah Game’s journey from business setbacks to becoming a top financial expert—this book will help you heal your relationship with money and build wealth that aligns with your vision of life.

No fluff, no judgment—just the tools to free yourself from money trauma and create a plan that empowers you. Because when your relationship with money is strong, your goals aren’t just possible—they’re inevitable. This isn’t just a book; it’s your breakthrough moment.

Ready to stop letting money control your life? Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life is the no-fluff guide to taking back your power. This isn’t about spreadsheets or savings hacks—it’s about smashing through the emotional roadblocks holding you back and finally creating the financial life you want.

Shannah Game, financial expert and host of the hit podcast Everyone’s Talkin’ Money, delivers bold insights, relatable stories, and actionable steps to help you heal your relationship with money, ditch guilt and shame, and build unapologetic wealth. Whether you’re drowning in debt, saving for your dream home, or just tired of feeling stuck, this book gives you the clarity and tools to take charge—and thrive. It’s not just a book—it’s your money revolution.

“Shannah brilliantly unravels the strange and complex relationship we have with money. As someone who inherited a money mindset of fear and lack, Shannah’s guidance has elevated my soul’s self-worth, and is the balm to embracing a flourishing relationship with money.”
—J. KELLY HOEY, Author of Build Your Dream Network

“I don’t think anyone has had more public conversations helping people untangle their money stories than Shannah Game—and now she’s packaged her wisdom into this generous, transformative guide for us all.”
—CARL RICHARDS, New York Times Sketch Guy Columnist and Author of The Behavior Gap and The One-Page Financial Plan