With student loan payments starting up again, many people are feeling anxious about how to manage both the financial and emotional strain. On Vermont Edition, Jennifer shared tips for reducing money anxiety, understanding your “money story,” and taking practical steps to feel more in control during stressful financial transitions.

Lending money to family can be emotionally complicated and often brings up stress, resentment, or guilt. In this Fatherly feature, Jennifer shares strategies for setting boundaries, having honest conversations, and protecting relationships when money is involved.

During the pandemic, many people turned to comfort spending or avoided their finances altogether. In Seven Days,Jennifer explained how our early money beliefs shape these behaviors and shared ways to manage anxiety, focus on what we can control, and build healthier money habits, even in uncertain times.

In this Boston Globe feature, Jennifer offered guidance on how to ease money stress by slowing down, noticing your financial “triggers,” and reconnecting your choices to your values. Her insights highlight practical ways clients can reduce anxiety and create a healthier, more intentional relationship with money.

Jennifer was featured in a National Association of Social Workers article, where she emphasized that while talking about money can be difficult, it’s an important step toward reducing stress. She highlighted that understanding different money beliefs, or “scripts,” can help people reach agreements, reduce blame in relationships, and feel more confident when making financial decisions.

Jennifer joined Healthy Love and Money to discuss how our beliefs about money shape stress, relationships, and well-being. She shared insights from her work in financial therapy, including strategies to reduce money-related shame, recognize common money scripts, and build healthier financial communication. Jennifer also explored how family, culture, and personal history influence money attitudes, offering practical guidance clients can use to create more confident, empowered relationships with money.

A romantic relationship is one of the most important emotional decisions we make in our lifetime. It is also one of the most important financial decision of our lives. When partners commit, they merge their individual and often complicated relationship with money that also creates a financial partnership, which we call Coupleship Inc.

The authors combine their expertise in couples therapy and financial planning to provide insights, tools and practical steps for couples to successfully resolve money conflicts and create emotional and financial wellbeing.

Discover how to overcome money stress, make smarter money moves, and find financial freedom with this life-changing interactive guide!

Most adults today experience some degree of anxiety. In the United States alone, 51% of adults report feeling anxious. And what is one of the top causes of this chronic anxiety? Money.

Money can get complicated. Relationships can get complicated. Through this book, you will have the opportunity to overcome some of the barriers that have prevented you from fully living your best love and money relationship. Research shows that couples who complete the lessons together experience greater relationship and financial satisfaction. We recommend scheduling a weekly time to come together and work through the Love & Money book as a couple. Aiming to complete one to two chapters per week is a realistic plan.

Learn to resolve money conflicts and achieve the happiness you want.
Why are we so irrational about money? Time after time, it heads the list as the source of conflict and discontent between us and our loved ones. The truth is, early money messages and childhood vows, money myths, and gender differences all sway what we think and do - or don't do - as adults. In Money Harmony, you'll learn how to feel calmer, more secure, and more fulfilled in your financial life, whether you're single or in a relationship. With humor and compassion, simple exercises, and money dialogues, Olivia Mellan and Sherry Christie will teach you how to cultivate a relationship with money that reflects your true values and integrity - and frees you of money anxiety to enjoy the happiness you've earned.

Based on decades of research and years of hands-on experience with people from all walks of life, LOADED is a must-read for anyone who finds themselves caught between the desire to thrive financially and the complex emotions and conflicting priorities that money so often brings to our lives.

Inside, you will learn to: Check your stories. Pinpoint and change beliefs that hold you back. Choose your strategies. Learn how to align your money with your needs. Cultivate your value. Put your unique resources to use and earn more.

Start Thinking Rich: 21 Harsh Truths to Take You from Broke to Financial Freedom delivers an inspirational, tough-love, and step-by-step guide for readers to finally start building their own legacy of wealth no matter where they're starting from. Filled with proven money-making, saving, and investment strategies, this book helps readers take an honest look at their spending habits, unconscious biases about money, and self-sabotaging money behaviors in order to start living their best lives.

Do you overspend? Undersave? Keep secrets about money from a spouse or family member? Are you anxious about dealing with your finances? If so, you are not alone. Let's face it–just about all of have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money.

An astonishing fact is that the vast majority of the wealthy come from middle-class or working-class backgrounds. Born and raised in modest economic circumstances, they find themselves as adults in the wonderful but unfamiliar world of wealth, like immigrants to a new land. Their adjustment is often harder than they anticipate. Yet awaiting wealth's newcomers is an even more daunting task: how to raise children and grandchildren successfully in the family's new world of affluence. Written by a prominent wealth psychologist, Strangers in Paradise takes an innovative approach to the challenges facing wealth's "immigrants and natives." Combining clear reasoning with real-world stories, Strangers in Paradise outlines for the first time how the key process for families of wealth - like all immigrant families - is adaptation.