Workbook
After Financial Control
A Recovery Workbook for Survivors of Economic Abuse
You are not bad with money. Money was used against you. There is a difference.
Survivors of relationships in which a partner, family member, or controlling person managed, monitored, withheld, or weaponized money — and who are now building financial life on their own for the first time or the first time in a long time
The Name It First Experience
Economic abuse does not leave marks that show in photographs. It leaves credit scores, empty accounts, debts signed under duress, and a bone-deep uncertainty about whether you can trust your own judgment about money. This workbook does not assume you know where to start. It starts where you are. You will document what was controlled and how. You will inventory what currently exists: accounts, debts, income, assets. You will separate what was genuinely yours from what was used as leverage. You will name the money behaviors you inherited from the relationship — the ones that are not yours — and begin replacing them with decisions you make with full information. The work is yours to do. This is where you write it down. What you produce is The Financial Truth Document: a clear inventory of what exists, what was taken, what is yours, and your signed financial plan forward.
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Sample questions
- What did financial control actually look like in your situation — not the word for it, but the specific ways money was used to limit what you could do or decide?
- What do you notice in yourself now when you have to make a financial decision alone — what feeling comes up, and where did it come from?
- What would The Financial Truth Document need to say — clearly and completely — for it to feel like a real starting point and not just another piece of paper?
Research basis
Grounded in economic abuse research (Adams et al., 2008, defining financial abuse within intimate partner violence) / ACEs and coercive control frameworks (Stark, 2007) / Post-Traumatic Growth theory (Tedeschi & Calhoun) on rebuilding personal agency post-abuse / and financial therapy research on money avoidance behaviors acquired through trauma.
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