book review
THERE IS A SPIRITUAL SIDE
TO MONEY MANAGEMENT
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CONNECTING SPIRITUALITY TO YOUR FINANCES by Amy Armstrong
ou don’t have the financial status that you say you want because you aren’t manifesting it in your spiritual life.
www.dsfinancialstrategies.com
40 / ADVISORS MAGAZINE
JAN 2022
This is the premise behind the new book, “The Spiritual Path to Prosperity…The Truth About Money,” written by Dawn Santoriello, president of DS Financial Strategies. In the 116page book, Santoriello – who was placed in the foster care system at age five because her grandmother could no longer provide for her and her and her two siblings – discusses her personal journey through financial mistakes, tragedies along her pathway, and eventually to what she describes as “financial triumph.” The turning point for her came early in her career when she recognized that she had only $200 to her own name, even though her clients were thriving. Something had to change. “I knew how to make money for my clients and had all the analytical skills I needed, but because I was spiritually blocked
around money, I wasn’t making it for myself,” Santoriello told Advisors Magazine. Huh? What does spirituality have to do with financial issues? That was Santoriello’s first thought when her intuitive counselor suggested that her financial challenges really were a spiritual matter. As she explored the idea, her counselor further suggested she write a book about her own experience. “I said, ‘no way, that is too woo-hoo,’” Santoriello recalls. “Everyone will think I am crazy. I will lose all of my clients.” Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And while the crisis brought plenty of fear and uncertainty to nearly everyone’s financial situation, for Santoriello the challenges of running her firm during the pandemic provided her with the courage to tackle the spiritual aspects of finances. “I finally let go of my own fear,” she said. Not an easy feat to accomplish when the economy is spinning out of control and your boyfriend – the one you are thinking is “the one” – up and leaves you. “Here I was all alone in the middle of this pandemic with my biggest fear coming to the surface to be healed and cleared out of my way so I could have a much