Key points

Financial boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and mental well-being.

Self-worth impacts financial behaviors and boundaries.

Unhealthy patterns include financial infidelity, counterproductive support, and financial abuse.

Dignified money boundaries foster mental, relational, and financial resilience.

Tears streamed down my face as I sat across from my CPA. My therapy practice was generating a significant amount of revenue, yet I was on the brink of collapse. Poor profit margins and weak financial boundaries had left me in a severe cash-flow crisis. With kindness, he said: “Joyce, you’re not running a charity—you deserve to make a profit.”

That moment was transformative. My business wasn’t failing—my mindset was. Years of people-pleasing and putting others

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