“Healing Your Financial Soul: An interactive guide to restoring your relationship with money”

Stratford, Canada – A new book by author David Hicks is helping people sort through the self-sabotaging, self-fulfilling internal conflicts they have about money. “There’s no such thing as a ‘money problem’ in our society,” says Mr. Hicks. “Money is never the problem – all it’s doing is illustrating what’s really going on inside a person.”

Where most financial advice adopts a top-down, expert-dolt stance, Hicks takes a more empathetic, lighthearted, even irreverent and iconoclastic approach. “People need more fun, empathy and passion in their relationship with money,” he says. “The last thing they need is another lecture about how dumb they’ve been, or how they’d prosper if only they’d force themselves to budget, save and give more. All that unravels sooner or later and they find themselves right back where they started, i.e., what they actually believe deep-down to be ‘right’ and ‘true’ about themselves and their finances.”

Hicks’ emphasis on financial healing is unusual. “I didn’t want to just pile on another set of opinions about finances and, God help us, ‘stewardship’. People don’t realize how ingenious they’ve been at adopting and juggling conflicting messages about money. Our world is awash with money, so availability is not the problem–it’s the variety and subtlety of the ways we entangle money. That’s what keeps people financially frustrated.”

"Healing Your Financial Soul" helps people cultivate better experiences with money while they uncover and disarm self-defeating beliefs and the emotions driving their decisions. The book is a participatory mix of pastoral counseling models, myth-busting, experiential exercises and even a field trip or two. “Having counseled and prayed with people for 20 years, 10 in full-time ministry, I got tired of seeing great ideas and inspired vision
held hostage by financial stress and resignation,” says Hicks. “I’m out to cultivate positive financial change from within. Then we’ll see people thrive–whether that means mobilizing a fortune or taking a vow of poverty, the goals are health and purpose.”

Hicks’ writing is warm, engaging, humorous, compassionate, gently confrontational and occasionally iconoclastic as he avoids the twin ditches of presumption and poverty.

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Pensario Publishing published “Healing Your Financial Soul: An interactive guide to restoring your relationship with money” in May, 2007. Author David Hicks is a marketing consultant in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and an ordained
minister with a decade of full-time pastoral experience, including 5 years on the pastoral team of Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship. “Healing Your Financial Soul” is also a seminar series available to churches, Christian organizations, companies and community groups.