The Weight of Money Avoidance

ACT I — THE WEIGHT YOU DON’T NOTICE There is a kind of weight that never shows up on a scale.

You can’t measure it. You can’t name it immediately. But you feel it

— quietly, consistently — every time money enters the room. For many people,

money avoidance is not about irresponsibility or lack of discipline. It’s about weight — a psychological

weight accumulated over years without ever being acknowledged. A weight that sits in the chest,

the shoulders, the breath. A weight that you learn to work around without realizing

it’s there. Money avoidance isn’t a refusal to deal with finances. It’s the nervous

system saying, “This feels heavier than I can carry right now.” This is the weight