The Book
Kate’s book, Emotional Currency: A Woman’s Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money, is on sale now!
Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press/Random House has published the book both as a paperback ($14.95) and an eBook. The book is available at your local bookstore or they can easily order it for you. You can also guarantee a signed copy by ordering it through Point Reyes Books at www.ptreyesbooks.com.
Emotional Currency is the only book that gives women the tools to understand—and challenge—their psychological relationship with money. By uncovering the emotional roots of our dealings with money we can make smarter decisions about our current and future financial lives.
The book includes dozens of real-life stories from women who have participated in Emotional Currency Workshops and from Kate’s psychotherapy practice. These stories will help you discover how you feel about money and the meanings it holds. There are lots of questions and exercises throughout the book to help explore the emotional and psychological aspects of your relationship to money and to provide strategies for working through confusion or struggles.
Emotional Currency is appropriate for women of all ages, no matter how proficient they are in dealing with financial matters or how much money they have. Additionally, it will help those who work in the financial services industry to better understand the feeling component of dealing with money.
Check back on this website for book readings and workshops taking place throughout the country. The book will have a facebook page soon. Your support for the book is invited! You can encourage your local independent bookstore to order the book now for their store. And if you know of any bookstores or venues that might be interested in having Kate do a reading/book signing or mini-workshop, please contact her through this website or at klevinson@gmail.com.
Endorsements
This is not just the best book about women and money that I have ever read, it is the best book about money. Beautifully written, wise, accessible, practical and profoundly healing. I wish Kate had been my mother. Or my big sister. It would have changed my whole life.
Don’t make another decision about money until you have read it. Then read it again.RACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D.
Author of Kitchen Table Wisdom
Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Founder and Director, Institute for the Study of Health and Ilness at Commonweal
Finally! A beautifully written, straight forward guide to understanding money. Reading Emotional Currency evoked many of my own emotional memories about money. The book underscores that for women money provides opportunities and choice.
FRANCES McDORMAND
Actor
Here’s the book every woman (and most men) need: a clear, thoughtful, and beautifully-written guide for how to cope with the myriad of emotions caused by money. Kate Levinson — practicing therapist and businesswoman –shows how money is both mercilessly public and intimately personal – stirring up our deepest feelings about dependence and independence, status, attractiveness, and terrifying confusion between net worth and self worth. Women in today’s economy are especially vulnerable because of gender biases in the workplace, patterns of parenting and upbringing that assume women do not “handle” financial matters well, and social norms that still disapprove of money-wise women. This book is a wise and important antidote.
ROBERT B. REICH
Author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley
We know that out there, money now enters into every pocket and corner of our contemporary culture. Kate Levinson’s book shows how it also permeates every nook and cranny of our inner mental and emotional world as well. Although written especially for women, it offers a warm, guiding hand to anyone seeking a healthy relationship to money and everything money touches.
JACOB NEEDLEMAN
Author of Money and the Meaning of Life
