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As I write this it has been 10 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes since I returned home from the 2025 Financial Therapy Association Annual Conference (FTAC25) in Athens, Georgia—a powerful gathering of minds from the financial and mental health worlds. I’ve wanted to attend for years after hearing mentors describe how special it is. They often mentioned how inclusive and warm the community felt, and based on the financial therapists I’ve met along the way, I believed them. I had met many members of the FTA and had proof. What I didn’t expect was the depth of that warmth—an overwhelming kindness and love from people I’d only just met.

Its Saturday, you don’t have much going on, but you really want to get out of the house. So you load the kids up and head over to Target. You walk in and grab your favorite Starbucks drink and a few cake pops for the kids before settling into a small peruse around the “Dollar Spot” and though you went in for one specific thing for teacher week coming up next week you ended up getting a collection of gifts for your kids, cute décor that was on sale and those throw pillows you have been wanting for a while now.