Looking back, I think I learned how to have a relatively healthy relationship with money from my parents.  We didn't have a lot of money but I didn't know it.  My mom and dad were always willing to talk to me about money, and it seemed like my parents had a pretty healthy relationship to it too.  We grew up on a farm in the Midwest.  My dad would talk about the price of corn or beans per bushel and I would do some rough math in my head.  He gave each of us kids a cow when we were young.  Every year, the cow would have a baby which would eventually be sold at auction and we'd get to keep the proceeds.  But my dad would always say "this money is for your car insurance bill" or "save this money to help pay for your car when you're 16".  Those were the early days of my learning how to keep money in an account without touching it and it proved to be an invaluable lesson.  But I made my fair share of financial mistakes too.  Like the time I tried grad school and dropped out after the withdrawal period and had to pay $4,000 out of my own pocket to settle up with the school, no degree in hand.  But because I had some strong foundations laid by my upbringing around money, I never internalized those mistakes and made them mean something bad about me.  I just picked myself up and kept going.  And that is possible for you too.