FACING YOUR FEARS AND CREATING NEW TRUTHS IN OUR CULTURE it’s okay to talk about therapy we’ve gone through, marital problems we’ve had, our deepest intimate secrets—but telling the truth about money, confessing our worries to our children, our parents, our friends, just isn’t done. Money is our secret both in private and in public. Imagine going to a dinner party and telling a group of close acquaintances, “I just don’t know what to do. My credit card debt has gone up to $17,000, and I don’t know how I’ll ever get out of it.” The room would fall into embarrassed silence. (Most silent of all would be the others in the room weighed down by the secret of their own credit card debt.) In the most profound sense our money says nothing about us, about whether we’re kind, generous of spirit, living our lives well. Yet we need money to live, as surely as we need air to breathe, and this need cuts across all races...