Spotlight: Wealth Wounds
Aylen Olivera on the money stories we inherit, the shame we carry, and the healing that becomes possible when we name both.
Aylen Olivera grew up in a household where money was never discussed — and always present. The bills on the kitchen table. The arguments heard through walls. The way her mother's body tightened when the credit card was declined. These are the wealth wounds the book is named for.
Beyond Budgets
Financial literacy programs teach you to budget, save, and invest. Olivera does not dismiss these tools. But she argues they are insufficient — because the relationship most people have with money is not primarily rational. It is emotional, relational, and deeply inherited.
A child who watched a parent be humiliated by debt carries that humiliation in their body. No spreadsheet addresses that. Wealth Wounds does.
"You cannot heal your relationship with money until you understand whose relationship with money you are actually living."
The Method
Olivera blends financial therapy, somatic practices, and generational healing exercises. Each chapter ends with a guided inquiry that helps readers trace their financial patterns back to their origin — and begin to write a new story.
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Wealth Wounds
by Aylen Olivera