#61 Help, My Portfolio Has Fallen and I Can’t Get Up!

The prevailing emotion experienced by many when any market is falling is anxiety.  The cause of anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically when we anticipate a negative outcome to an imminent event or uncertainty.  First, whatever you are feeling, you are feeling.  That’s a fact. It doesn’t help, and probably is hurtful, to tell yourself you “should” not be feeling anxiety over the decrease in your portfolio.  There are many reasons why a person may feel anxiety around a decline in value.  Some could be because more information needed.  Other reasons are anchored in unresolved trauma from past experiences that may have little to do with the falling markets

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Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.