by Laurie Wagner | Nov 1, 2014 | Blog
I wanted to interview Bari Tessler Linden because I’m so intrigued with the work she does around money. As an artist and businessperson I know how difficult it can be to put price tags on my work and my time, to keep track of my dollars and to make financial goals. Ultimately, just becoming conscious of money as it impacts my life is huge. Bari is such a lovely, straightforward, generous woman — I wanted you to know her too. Bari, we know and love you as someone who does conscious money work. But before that, I know you trained as a somatic psychotherapist and a dancer. That seems like a big change! How did you get into doing this deep money work? Well, I first want to clarify that I am a Financial Therapist: I help folks un-shame around their relationship to money. We create safe, compassionate spaces to talk about money with their spouse, muster the courage to look at their numbers and choose a bookkeeping system, and clarify their values and dreams, so money can support them. But, you’re right: this was a big leap for me, personally and professionally. Back in my full-on, African dancing, authentic movement, somatic psychotherapist days, I never imagined that one day, I would be leading a year-long money school called The Art of Money! In fact, I had ZERO relationship to money, back then. In my amazing graduate program at Naropa University, we studied every topic under the sun (and beyond the sun): food, body, intimacy, sexuality, sensuality, God, and on and on … but they completely left out...
