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It pays to separate your feelings of worth and your emotions from your finances, especially when you are trying to repair your credit. Feeling self-pity, shame, fear, or sadness as you try to repair your credit score won’t help you. Staying calm and professional as you deal with credit bureaus and financial professionals [...]

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Most of us carry a lot of emotional baggage with us when it comes to money. We see money as a marker of success, or we see money as a way of making ourselves feel better, and these attitudes lead us to much of our financial and credit problems. If we rely on [...]

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Reestablishing good credit is hard work and daunting as well. Once in a while, as you reach a milestone, you need to reward yourself. You should do this through some means that do not involve debt or money. If you repay your credit card bill, there is no sense in running up [...]

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If you have been the object of identity theft or have genuinely been mistreated by a company, then by all means include an explanatory note in your credit report. However, most lenders do not want to hear a lot of excuses. Whatever your problems have been in the past, you will seem like [...]

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Credit Repair and Your Emotions
It is a subject that few people discuss, but more and more therapists are talking about it – the key link between our emotions and our money. We may think that money is all about our rational selves, but in fact our emotions are often very much invested in our [...]