If you woke up tomorrow with no financial anxiety, what would be different about your life? The answer can help you sort out ...

That's the difference between financial stress and financial anxiety, says Megan McCoy, a financial therapist and professor at Kansas State University. Money-related stress "is something tangible ...

Financial anxiety is tougher to pin down. "Financial anxiety doesn't have that external effect. It's just this looming feeling," McCoy recently told CNBC Make It.