Financial Freeze

Why does money feel so overwhelming the moment it arrives? Financial Freeze: When Earning Triggers Panic unpacks one of the most overlooked yet powerful dynamics in financial and emotional health: the trauma of receiving.

For many, earning should bring relief - but instead it sparks panic, avoidance, or collapse. This groundbreaking guide reveals how childhood experiences, cultural narratives, and nervous system responses can turn income into a trigger. With clarity and compassion, Matthew Petchinsky explains why your body reacts as if money is dangerous and how to unlearn the freeze response that keeps abundance out of reach.

Inside you'll discover:

• The science of financial trauma and nervous system states (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
• How inherited stories shape your money anxiety
• Somatic exercises to calm the body during financial triggers
• Rituals and visualization practices to expand your capacity to receive
• Tools to build a safe-to-earn mindset without burnout

This is not a budgeting book. It is a healing manual for anyone whose chest tightens at payday or who hides from their own bank account. Learn to transform money from a threat into a source of safety, stability, and possibility.