Why Financial Anxiety Lingers: Even when the Crisis is over

Why does financial anxiety still show up, even when things are finally getting better? This is the question I’ve had to sit with in this new season of rebuilding. After three years of caregiving for my husband during his unexpected spinal injury only one month after our blended family wedding, we’re finally on the other side of the emergency. He’s healing. He’s driving. The bills are no longer stacking up in the same way. And yet… some days I still catch myself holding my breath around money.