Find Balance with Your Finances at BPL’s Self-Care Mastermind: Money and Me on October 7

💰 Money and Me: A Self-Care Mastermind Workshop

📅 Tuesday, October 7, 2025
🕠 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
📍 Central Library, 1st Floor

Do money worries keep you up at night? You’re not alone. For many adults, financial stress is one of the leading causes of anxiety and can even impact physical health. But true financial wellness isn’t just about dollars and cents. It’s about understanding your emotional and psychological relationship with money.

Join us at the Birmingham Public Library for Self-Care Mastermind: Money and Me, part of the Community Edition 2025 series led by Christina (C. J.) Wade, licensed massage therapist and certified health coach.

This free one-hour workshop will help you:

• Recognize how financial stress affects your overall well-being.

• Explore your personal relationship with money.

• Discover practical steps toward creating balance between financial stability and emotional health.

By looking beyond budgets and debt, this session will empower you to develop a healthier, more sustainable sense of contentment around your finances.

📚 Want to keep learning? Check out BPL’s resource guide for books, articles, and websites that explore the connection between money and well-being.

For more information, contact Jim Murray at (205) 226-3640 or jim.murray@cobpl.org.

Written by Jim Murray, Librarian II – Central Library

This pathfinder was created to help you navigate the resources available at the Birmingham Public Library on the topic of your relationship with money.  It can be used to supplement the information that is presented at The Self-Care Mastermind program held at BPL’s Central location on October 7, 2025.  

Birmingham Public Library catalog   

Using the Birmingham Public Library catalog, you can search for books, magazines, audiobooks, dvds, and downloadables, held by all of the public libraries in Jefferson County.  Use the following subject terms to locate relevant materials on ways to approach your personal financial mindset:   

• Consumers  --  Attitudes  

• Finance, Personal  

• Finance, Personal  --  Psychological aspects  

• Financial Security – Psychological aspects  

• Financial Security  --  Religious aspects  

• Happiness  

• Money – Psychological aspects  

• Money  --  Religious aspects  

• Success  

• Success  --  Psychological aspects  

• Wealth  

• Wealth --  Psychological aspects   

   

Birmingham Public Library databases   

Databases can be accessed on computers at all Birmingham Public Library locations during operating hours and from your home or office 24/7 with a valid JCLC library card.  The following databases are reliable sources for magazine and scholarly journal articles on topics related to your emotional and psychological relationship with money.   

 Alt  HealthWatch  

Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage of complementary and alternative medicine, offering full text articles from peer-reviewed journals, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.   

 Health Source: Consumer Edition   

Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition   

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more.   

 Libby and Hoopla  

Libby is an app that you can use to browse the content of hundreds of magazine titles, as well as giving you access to downloadable ebooks and audiobooks.  The magazine collection on Libby includes health and wellness titles such as Health, Men’s Health, Prevention, and Women’s Health that contain articles on self-care topics, including healthy eating.  Hoopla is a library digital platform that gives you access to audiobooks, ebooks, and movies.  A valid JCLC card is all you need to start using Libby and Hoopla.   

 Internet Websites   

The following websites have assembled information from healthcare experts that can help you navigate your mindset around money and wealth:  

  

• Harvard Business Review: Why Are We So Emotional About Money

  

• iMind Mental Health Solutions - Money and Mental Health: The Complex Relationship Between Money and Mood  

  

• Kiplinger - Three Ways You Can Create a Healthy Relationship With Money   

  

• Mind - The link between money and mental health   

  

• NPR - Our relationship with money is emotional. How to make the most of your cash   

• Psychology Today - The Psychological Impact of Money on Relationships   

  

• Ramsey Solutions  -  How to Change Your Money Mindset  

  

• Relational Psych - The Scarcity Money Mindset