A few years into my coaching practice, I noticed something that kept appearing in different forms. Clients would come to me with what looked, on the surface, like a money problem. They were overspending, or hoarding, or unable to charge what their work was worth, or earning well and still feeling permanently behind. But as we talked, it became clear that the numbers were rarely where the real story lived. The real story was older than that. It often went deeper than they were consciously aware.