Doug Lynam

You're not bad with money. You're just carrying an old story about it.

Moola Money wrote a great piece using my book Taming Your Money Monster as the starting point. The argument is simple: most financial problems aren't really about numbers. They're about fear, avoidance, and childhood scripts we've never updated.

Worth a read.

Taming Your Money Monster: Why Your Finances Feel Scarier Than They Actually Are Fragmented accounts, unclear projections, and constant comparison — modern financial life is overwhelming by design. But the antidote isn't hustle or complex strategy. It's clarity. When you can see your full financial picture, the anxiety quiets and the right decisions become obvious.

Do you know your Money Monster?

In this deep-dive workshop with the Enneagram Community of Practice, I break down something I've never seen anyone else teach: how each Enneagram type develops a specific pattern of financial self-sabotage—and how to break free from it.

This isn't surface-level stuff. We go into:

The childhood wounds that created your relationship with money

Why each type has BOTH an anxious AND avoidant money pattern

The specific "money monsters" for all 9 types (and their healthy counterparts)

How attachment theory explains why you keep repeating the same financial mistakes

The spiritual dimension of money that most financial advice completely ignores

Whether you're a Type 1 who can't spend money on yourself without guilt, a Type 7 who impulse-buys to avoid emotional discomfort, or a Type 8 who uses money as a weapon of control—there's something in here for you.

From my journey as a Marine → Benedictine monk → money manager, I've come to believe that our financial problems are rarely about money. They're about unhealed parts of ourselves crying out for attention.

Ready to meet your Money Monster?

Author Doug Lynam: Enneagram Community of Practice Guest Presenter BIO:Doug Lynam is a financial advisor, Enneagram teacher, and author of two HarperCollins books: From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk's Financial Guide ...