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When financial anxiety about the future disrupts daily peace

I keep checking my savings account balance every morning even though I know nothing has changed and each time I feel this knot in my stomach about whether I will have enough for retirement.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to control an uncertain future through obsessive monitoring creates the very suffering one seeks to avoid.

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