#Money Scripts

[honestkindlereviews]

A New Path to Financial Peace: Overcoming the Silent Struggle of Financial Anxiety

For many of us, financial anxiety isn't a loud, monstrous beast that strikes only at 3 a.m. It's quieter. It's a low-grade static in the back of our minds, a constant hum of "not enough." It's the heavy, invisible backpack we carry every day, filled with unspoken fears about the future, shame about past decisions, and the persistent feeling that we're somehow failing at a fundamental part of adult life that everyone else has figured out.

In my years as a financial guide, I've sat with people who, by all external measures, were the picture of success. Yet, in the quiet confidence of a private session, they would confess this secret burden. They felt like impostors, navigating their lives with a map written in a language they never learned. They were told to "just make a budget" or "spend less," advice that feels as helpful as telling someone in a panic attack to "just calm down."

The Financial Anxiety Solution: A Gentle Guide to Money Calm: Practical Steps to Understand Your Money Fears, Build Healthy Financial Habits, and Cultivate a Peaceful Relationship with Your Finances: BUY EBOOK CLICK HARE

This guide offers a different way. It’s a new path, one that doesn’t start with spreadsheets but with stillness. It’s an approach built on the revolutionary idea that you cannot solve an emotional problem with a purely logical solution. Drawing inspiration from the compassionate frameworks in works like Thiare Nicole Obma's The Financial Anxiety Solution, we will explore a more humane, sustainable way to find peace with your finances. It’s time to turn down the static, set down the backpack, and learn to walk freely.

H2: Decoding Your Financial DNA: The Blueprint Within

Your relationship with money didn't begin with your first job. It began in the soil of your childhood, long before you understood what a credit score was. The beliefs, habits, and emotional responses you have around money today are part of your "Financial DNA"—a complex blueprint inherited from your family, culture, and life experiences.

This DNA isn't good or bad; it just is. And until you understand its unique code, you will continue to be driven by unconscious patterns that may be sabotaging your peace of mind.

Did you grow up in a home where every dollar was accounted for, leading to a DNA strand that equates meticulous tracking with safety, but also creates immense anxiety around any unplanned expense?

Perhaps money was a tool for love and affection, where gifts replaced emotional connection. Your DNA might then code for emotional spending, a way to self-soothe or show love that leaves you feeling empty and in debt.

Maybe money was simply never discussed, a mysterious force that came and went. This can create a DNA that defaults to avoidance, because engaging with the unknown feels too terrifying.

H3: Reading Your Own Blueprint

To begin decoding your DNA, grab a journal and reflect on these prompts. Don't censor yourself; let the raw answers flow.

My earliest memory involving money is…

When I think about looking at my bank account balance, the primary feeling in my body is…

My family’s unspoken rule about money was…

The person who most influenced my financial beliefs taught me that money is…

Understanding your blueprint is not about blame. It’s about liberation. When you can see the source of a belief ("Money must be earned through struggle") or a behavior (avoiding financial conversations), you reclaim your power over it. You realize you are not broken; you are simply running on old programming. And that programming can be updated.

H2: First Response for a Financial Panic

When a wave of financial fear hits—triggered by an unexpected bill, a market downturn, or simply opening a credit card statement—your body enters a state of emergency. Your nervous system doesn't know the difference between a financial threat and a physical one. The physiological response is the same. In these moments, your ability to think rationally and strategically is severely compromised.

You need a first-response kit, a set of simple, physical actions to anchor you in the present and signal to your body that you are safe.

H3: Your Emergency Anchor Kit

Tactile Grounding: Find an object near you and focus all your attention on it. A smooth stone, a textured piece of fabric, a cold glass of water. Describe it to yourself in minute detail: its temperature, its weight, its texture, its shape. This pulls your brain out of future-oriented worry and into the physical reality of the now.

Physiological Sigh: This is one of the fastest ways to voluntarily calm the nervous system. Take a deep inhale through your nose, and then, when your lungs feel full, take another short, sharp inhale to expand them further. Then, let out a long, slow exhale through your mouth. Do this one to three times. It offloads carbon dioxide and rapidly slows the heart rate.

Compassionate Touch: Gently place your hands on your arms and give them a slow, firm squeeze, moving from your shoulders down to your wrists. This action mimics the feeling of being held and supported, releasing soothing hormones like oxytocin and reassuring your nervous system on a primal level.

Mastering these techniques gives you an immediate, tangible way to regain control when you feel a spiral coming on, creating the mental space needed to address the problem at hand with a clear mind.

H2: Designing a Budget That Breathes

Let's abandon the word "budget" and its baggage of restriction. Let’s instead call it a "Spending Plan" or an "Intentionality Map." This isn't a rigid cage; it's a living document, a tool designed to guide your resources toward what gives you life, energy, and meaning. It’s a plan that is designed to breathe—to flex and adapt with the natural rhythm of your life.

The foundation of this plan is not about what you must cut, but what you want to build. It starts with identifying your core values—not the ones you think you should have, but the ones that are authentically yours.

What do you crave more of in your life?

Vitality: Prioritizing health through good food, gym memberships, or restorative rest.

Learning: Investing in books, courses, or workshops that expand your mind.

Peace: Allocating funds for things that reduce stress, whether it’s a house cleaning service, therapy, or creating a tranquil space in your home.

Play: Making intentional room for hobbies, laughter, and pure, unproductive fun.

Once you have your pillars, you can design your spending plan around them. You’ll find that when your spending is aligned with your soul's deepest needs, the desire for impulsive, compensatory spending naturally fades. You're no longer trying to fill a void; you're actively funding your own fulfillment.

H2: The Gentle Ascent: Conquering Savings and Debt

For those weighed down by financial anxiety, large goals like saving a six-month emergency fund or eliminating a mountain of debt can feel crushingly impossible. The sheer scale of the task can lead to "analysis paralysis," where doing nothing feels safer than taking a small step. The secret is to reframe the journey.

H3: Establishing Your Base Camp (Savings)

Forget the six-month summit for now. Your first mission is to establish a small, secure "base camp." This is a starter emergency fund, perhaps just $500 or $1,000. Its purpose is purely psychological: to give you a small patch of solid ground. Automate a weekly transfer—even $10 helps—into a separate savings account you don't touch. Name it "My Peace of Mind Fund." Watching that balance grow, step by step, builds the most critical asset you have: self-trust.

H3: Choosing Your Trail (Debt)

Looking at a mountain of debt is overwhelming. Instead, look at the individual trails. List your debts, and then choose just one to focus on. The "snowball" method (paying off the smallest balance first) is often the most powerful for anxiety because it provides the quickest psychological win. The momentum from clearing that first small debt creates a powerful emotional updraft that carries you to the next, larger trail. Celebrate every single time a debt is paid off, no matter how small. You are not just reducing a balance; you are reclaiming your freedom.

H2: Discovering True Wealth: The Currency of a Well-Lived Life

Our culture has sold us a narrow, impoverished definition of wealth. It’s a number on a screen, a status symbol, a finish line that always seems to move further away. This is a trap that keeps us on a hamster wheel of striving and anxiety.

True, lasting wealth is a far richer, more expansive concept. It is a state of holistic prosperity.

It's Time Wealth: Having the freedom and flexibility to spend your time on what matters most to you.

It's Relational Wealth: The deep, supportive connections you have with friends, family, and your community.

It's Physical Wealth: The energy and vitality of a healthy body and mind.

It's Spiritual Wealth: A sense of purpose, meaning, and connection to something larger than yourself.

When you begin to see your finances as a tool to nurture all these forms of wealth, your perspective shifts entirely. The goal is no longer just accumulation, but alignment. You start making financial decisions that enrich your entire life, not just your bank account.

This journey to financial peace is a practice, not a performance. There will be missteps and setbacks. But by meeting yourself with compassion, understanding your unique psychological wiring, and consistently choosing the next gentle step, you can transform your relationship with money. You can move from a life colored by fear to one defined by freedom, purpose, and a profound sense of calm. The power to create this peace has been within you all along.

The Financial Anxiety Solution: A Gentle Guide to Money Calm: Practical Steps to Understand Your Money Fears, Build Healthy Financial Habits, and Cultivate a Peaceful Relationship with Your Finances: BUY EBOOK CLICK HARE

[fanaticalthings]

the muskification of twitter except it's lex luthor instead of elon lol

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[redvelvetwishtree]

Whyyyy would you silence your own people like this, what are you afraid of? Is this release being shown on media?

[elinordash]

“As far as the police report goes, the “matter has been closed,” a spokesperson says. Gaiman’s career, meanwhile, has been marginally affected. A few pending adaptations of his novels and comics have been put on hold or cancelled. But the second season of The Sandman is set to premiere on Netflix this year, as is Anansi Boys on Amazon Prime.”

– Lila Shapiro, There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades

[and Good Omens starts filming later this month]

THAT’s why we should be boycotting him. That’s why we should be pressuring every studio and every actor to stop working with him. We can’t do anything about the judicial part, but his career should not have just been “marginally affected”; it should have crumbled to pieces.

[babyblankyerror]

Stanley model baby going further into those child actors with toxic parents. Fillbrick milking the crap out of it, taking all the money and putting Stan through routines that are especially bad for his mental and physical health.

[gothamite-rambler]

Duke: My cousin Jermaine got sentenced to a year in prison yesterday. Not for what you think either.

Jason: I'm intrigued.

Duke: Thought you'd be. Okay, so he heard about this money glitch at Chase.

Dick (pinching the bridge of his nose): Oh no.

Duke: You already clocked it, but let me keep going. So what he heard is if you write a check with a large amount that you don't have, it'll let you withdraw said funds before the check clears and that... That's just check fraud.

Dick: That's like the most basic type of bank fraud.

Dick laughed, shaking his head.

Duke (laughing): Like I get he wanted money, but you can't take money that isn't yours... When you're poor. When you're rich, it's not stealing, it's getting a bag.

Jason: This is why we like hanging out with you. And was he aware the bank has all his info?

Duke: He kind of was, he signed up with the info. The check was for seventy-five thousand dollars. And ... And ... He learned about this "glitch" through finance bro on TikTok.

Dick nearly spit out his drink as he started laughing again.

Dick (coughing and laughing): Oh God, I was drinking water when you said that.

Jason (smirking): Is he... Is he stupid?

Duke: Oh yeah, it got so bad his mom didn't bail him out. He committed a felony to use the money to buy stupid stuff. Stupid stuff his mom is currently returning or reselling. I swear, we all got 'that' family member, you know what I mean?

Dick and Jason: ...Yeah.

[heartavenue]

script that there is ALWAYS something to eat in your refrigerator/pantry and that there are NO processing fees for when you use your card and not cash!

[lets-steal-an-archive]

The screenplays (so far):

Frankenstein (1931)

The Invisible Man (1933)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Rebecca (1940)

The Maltese Falcon (1940)

Laura (1944)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Rope (1948)

All About Eve (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Johnny Guitar (1954)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

North by Northwest (1959)

Some Like it Hot (1959)

The Haunting (1963)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Boys in the Band (1970)

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Harold and Maude (1971)

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Cabaret (1972)

Pink Flamingos (1972)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

American Gigolo (1980)

Cruising (1980)

Personal Best (1982)

The Hunger (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

The Color Purple (1983)

Lianna (1983)

A Chorus Line (1985)

Desert Hearts (1985)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

The Fly (1986)

Mala Noche (1986)

Hairspray (1988)

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

A League of Their Own (1992)

The Living End (1992)

M. Butterfly (1993)

Go Fish (1994)

Boys on the Side (1995)

Heavenly Creatures (1995)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Safe (1995)

Showgirls (1995)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

The Birdcage (1996)

Bound (1996)

Crash (1996)

Set it Off (1996)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

In & Out (1997)

Nowhere (1997)

Gia (1998)

Gods and Monsters (1998)

Wild Things (1998)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Billy Elliot (2000)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Y tu Mamá También (2001)

Far From Heaven (2002)

The Hours (2002)

Brother to Brother (2004)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Rent (2005)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Across the Universe (2007)

Milk (2008)

I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

A Single Man (2009)

Beginners (2010)

Black Swan (2010)

The Kids are All Right (2010)

The Runaways (2010)

Pariah (2011)

Under the Skin (2013)

Pride (2014)

Bessie (2015)

Carol (2015)

Dope (2015)

Grandma (2015)

Tangerine (2015)

Moonlight (2016)

A Fantastic Woman [Una Mujer Fantástica] (2017)

Blockers (2018)

Disobedience (2018)

The Favourite (2018)

Love, Simon (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

A Simple Favor (2018)

Booksmart (2019)

Happiest Season (2020)

The Half of It (2020)

Kajillionaire (2020)

I Carry You With Me [Te Llevo Conmigo] (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

The Old Guard (2020)

The Prom (2020)

Zola (2020)

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

Parallel Mothers (2021)

Passing (2021)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Aftersun (2022)

Anything's Possible (2022)

Blue Jean (2022)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Bros (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Nope (2022)

Rustin (2022)

TÁR (2022)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Bottoms (2023)

The Color Purple (2023)

Nimona (2023)

Red, White, & Royal Blue (2023)

Challengers (2024)

Drive Away Dolls (2024)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

My Old Ass (2024)

Queer (2024)

[a-very-tired-jew]

Back to back scam asks from the same account showed up in my inbox. I'm always curious and clicked on the GFM and once again it's got all the red flags. First of all, the ask did the whole "Dear Humanity" thing. We know that's a red flag.

Second, it then says to click the GFM link or use PayPal. In the GFM the organizer says they will use PayPal to send the money. Red flag number 2 as it has been well established that PayPal does not work in Gaza or the Palestinian Territories. Even Al Jazeera says it doesn't work. Then we get to the fun nugget of the ahistorical revisionism.

This is clearly a bad copy and paste. The space on the second line only happens when you copy and paste some text that is formatted oddly and don't delete the extraneous spacing. Also, this is the exact same text multiple other scams have used on their respective GFMs. I even talked about this on another post where I first encountered this particular narrative. And let's be clear. This didn't happen. The Israeli response didn't happen in any significant manner until the 9th. They were literally still fighting in Israel proper, counting the dead, going through the wreckage of the attacks, and identifying bodies. This only seeks to change the well established timeline of events. It changes it from "We were the aggressors on October 7th and cheered on the actions that occurred" to "We were actually the victims and that attack never occurred, in fact we were attacked". That's blatantly and factually wrong, and the fact that people are falling for it or not calling out the blatant lie because "something something Israel bad" is horrific. But let's continue through the story we're given. Apparently one of the children was injured some period of time ago. We don't know when. We're told it was when they went to the south. Well that was a long time ago in the context of this war, and the pictures we're given provide no context. So either these injuries happened a while ago and have since been treated or they happened recently and have since been treated (but I'm also told there are no hospital in Gaza???). Yes, continuing and more specialized treatment outside of Gaza is often necessary. But the ask literally has none of the previous hallmarks of "here's what it will take to get out and get treatment" that we've seen previously and what is now common knowledge.

And here's the kicker, If you take the images in this GFM and reverse search them they link to multiple other GFMs using different organizers around the globe, but all with the same story. All of them have a variety of copy and paste edits, and many of them have pictures of other people from other GFMs interspersed throughout. So yeah, this was a very clear and obvious scam and once again adds to the ever growing pile of why we don't trust these accounts that continuously pop up and ask for money while attempting to pull at heartstrings.

[blackkatdraws2]

"If it weren't for that cheating b*tch."

[ultred]

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

i walk into any store confidently knowing that i can buy anything i want.

[jaime-has-shifted]

I fear I haven’t used the freedom that shifting gives me to Its full extent.

[tethrawke]

What if I wrote a modern AU where Hawke is a newbie actress with only community theatre experience from her small hometown. Varric is a decently published writer, but not to the degree he could live off his writing alone. He and Bartrand are trying to make their first movie and launch a production company. It's based on Varric's script. They don't have the money to fund it, so they need the actors to go in on the funding (and get a % of the profits if it sells). They audition so many people. They stop being able to tell the humans apart. Everything is a blur.

And then SHE comes in. The one. And she's poor af. She can't afford to buy in. But it HAS to be her. Varric will strangle Bartrand in his sleep if that's what it takes. Instead, he helps her get the money together by referring her to people he knows for modelling work. Maybe even a sexy maid service. He thinks she'll kill him for suggesting it, but she just cracks her knuckles and tells him, "Let's do this."

He's in love. He knows he's in love, but he CAN'T be in love, because everyone knows he's still in love with the ex that left him years ago. So he's not in love. He just recognises raw talent when he sees it. That's all.

They get the money together. The film gets made. It's a runaway success. They get filthy rich off the profits. Hawke gets swamped with new offers. Varric starts writing again. He spends a decade telling himself he's not in love with his best friend and it doesn't kill him to see her with all those classically handsome film stars on screen and on the red carpet, their hands on her lower back. He's not jealous when she gushes about other scripts and how great her love interest is in this one. He doesn't care at all.

He cares so little, in fact, that he DOESN'T end up writing a script of their lives in a haze where the character that's definitely not him confesses to loving the girl on the last page, and there's nothing after. He doesn't forget that he wrote that dreck and left it out on his coffee table when Hawke comes over. He can't, because that would mean she'd know, and then what? He's kept the secret for so long, what are a few years more?

He's lucky Hawke is a fast reader and always skips to the end.

The luckiest man alive.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Now, if anyone here doubts that the smart thing to do is to settle generously, why don't you throw that video on up there?"

Leverage Redemption S02E01 The Debutante Job.

Bonus Eliot is going to kill horribly maim whoever wrote this:

[gothamite-rambler]

Barbara: So, you spent real money on a crypto coin called Crispy with a K, right? And it turned out to be a scam?

Garfield (Beast Boy): That’s the gist of it. I know it was a dumb decision. My friend kept telling me to get in while it was fresh, he showed me his net worth and I found out later it's case he's great scammer. I let easy money get to my head. I just need help getting my money back.

Barbara (stammering, flabbergasted): I… you’re talking about five hundred dollars here. I—

Kori (stirring her coffee): Be nice.

Barbara (looking at the ceiling as if to pray to God): I’m finding it.

A few seconds passed as Barbara silently removed her glasses and shook her head, exuding the disappointment of a frustrated mother.

Kori: It takes you that long to find it out?

Barbara: It does, it does.

Garfield whimpered, his head drooping in shame.

Kori: Go easy on him. Dick already laughed at him for five minutes straight.

Barbara: Yeah, knowing a guy who can manage his money puts this whole situation into sharper focus.

Kori: That makes sense.

[ellysdreamworldd]

can't wait to be filthy rich in my dr