Deborah L. Price - The Heart of Money: A Couples Guide to Creating True Financial Intimacy

Praise for The Heart of Money

How wonderful to have a practical guide to empower couples to discuss their sensitivities and differences around finances. The Heart of Money will assist readers to bring about mutually respectful decisions that will bring satisfaction and fulfillment to all issues related to financial challenges. Whether working cooperatively to generate more income or being content with what we have, the intimacy, trust, and happiness that result from deep understanding is indeed our greatest wealth.

Linda Bloom, LCSW, coauthor of 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married and Secrets of Great Marriages

Praise for Money Magic by Deborah L. Price

Money Magic can assist you in transforming your consciousness, making you more receptive to the prosperity seeking to flow through you as you live a purposeful life.

Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation

Going well beyond manifesting money, or visualizing prosperity, Money Magic can help readers understand and overcome their lifelong money issues.

NAPRA ReView

A must-read for creating wealth and understanding our often precarious relationship with money. Deborah Price has created a handbook that encompasses everything the reader would need to gain both prosperity and peace of mind.

Benjamin Shield, PhD, editor of Handbook for the Soul and Handbook for the Spirit

Drawing on her own experience as well as her counseling practice, Price describes the eight types of relationships people have with money and outlines how one can become a money Magician, bringing ones attitude toward money in better alignment with deeper life goals.

Publishers Weekly

Read this book and watch your wealth bounce higher! Deborah Price is right on the money!

Roger Crawford, author of How High Can You Bounce?

Savor the down-to-earth insights [Money Magic] gives you into your relationship with money.

Spirituality & Health

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Copyright 2012 by Deborah L. Price

The money types that are defined in were first introduced in Money Magic 2000 by Deborah L. Price.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Price, Deborah L., date.

The heart of money : a couples guide to creating true financial intimacy / Deborah L. Price.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60868-127-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Married peopleFinance, Personal. 2. CouplesFinance, Personal. 3. Finance, PersonalPsychological aspects. 4. MoneyPsychological aspects. 5. Man-woman relationships. I. Title.

HG179.P7353 2012

First printing, October 2012

ISBN 978-1-60868-127-3

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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To my daughter, Anjelica Price-Rocha,
and my husband, Robert Coleman,
who have both taught me the true meaning of love.

Passion can never purchase what true love desires:
true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

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I have been enormously blessed in my life with the gift of the most wonderful circle of loving and supportive friends and family. These are the people whom I know I can count on in this world, who always have my back, and without whom my life would simply not be the same. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the following people.

My daughter, Anjelica Price-Rocha, for her wisdom and great writing and editing skills. My husband and best friend, Robert Coleman, for his unconditional support, editorial assistance, and honest feedback as my in-house editor.

My business partner and friend, Steven Shags Shagrin, for tirelessly reading my drafts and providing friendship, editing, and support throughout.

My wonderful girlfriends: Marian Morioka and Carol Bell, who fed me, loved me, and provided endless entertainment throughout; and Donna Colfer, Karen Harvey, and Molly Light, for being such dear friends and bearers of love and light in my world.

Leslie Gainer, for her friendship, wisdom, and perspective just when I needed them most.

Lili Goodman-Freitas and Greg Freitas, for the love, light, and laughter they brought into our lives.

Dr. and Mrs. Preston and Frieda Wright, for always knowing what to say and do to make it better.

Marge Abrams, Stephan Islas, Brenda Ferreira, and David Seligman, for always being there for me for as long as I can remember.

Janet Rosen and Sheree Bykofsky, for being the best agents a writer could ever hope for.

And finally, love and gratitude to my editor, Georgia Hughes, and New World Library, for continuing to believe in me and support my ideas.

As a licensed clinical psychologist, I began my relationship with Deborah Price and the Money Coaching Institute with a certain amount of skepticism. Here was a woman with no formal psychological training tackling the biggest taboo subject in the world: money and our relationship to it. Her first book, Money Therapy: Using the Eight Money Types to Create Wealth and Prosperity, claimed to help people to transform their relationship with money not only from a practical perspective but also through sound psychological principles so that they could lead more purposeful and prosperous lives. As I read, I quickly shed my skepticism, and over the past five years of knowing and working with Deborah, I have become increasingly respectful of and impressed by her deep wisdom and skill in working with clients as a money coach. Deborah is a highly experienced teacher and coach with a remarkable ability to communicate complex information so that it can be easily digested and practically implemented to effect significant change.