The term “scarcity mindset” has been showing up in my orbit for months. It was time to get curious.

“A scarcity mindset is a fear-based mentality that typically is passed down generationally, is learned from parents, or [is the result of] traumatic events that make us see the world as an unsafe place,” How a “Scarcity Mindset” Can Create Clutter | Apartment Therapy

Many of us know someone who experienced “Depression-era trauma”, the severe and prolonged psychological and financial scars left by the Great Depression of 1929 to 1939.

Living through chronic economic collapse created psychological responses such as: