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Click here to listen to Debbie Roes’ tips on online shopping. Online Shopping Tips Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence.… Continue reading Debbie’s Online Shopping Tips

A piece for Paradigm magazine by April Lane Benson. Click here to access the complete issue online.  Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. Shopping makes for easy jokes. This post-it version hints at shopping as panacea, a magical elixir that promises more than it could ever deliver. Retailers seize… Continue reading Let’s Stop Smiling at the Smiled-Upon Addiction

Free Report: 3 Assessment Tools for Therapists Does Your Client Buy Compulsively? No?  Are You Sure?   Our clients come to therapy for all sorts of reasons.  Their presenting issues may be depression, anxiety, or relationship struggles.  But just as most couples don’t offer sex as a focus area in marriage counseling until they’re asked,… Continue reading Free Report

2013 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying CBS News (December 15th, 2013) How a great sale affects your brain CNBC (December 6th, 2013) Shop Under the Influence at Clothing Store Bars Huffington Post (December 2nd, 2013) 15 Signs You are Hopelessly Addicted to Online Shopping Reader’s Digest (November 23rd, 2013) Top Psychology Tricks to Spend Less… Continue reading Related Blogs / Articles / 2013

You’re cordially invited to a free teleseminar that Marcela Torres, LCSW, Clinical Coordinator of Stopping Overshopping, LLC, Jeannie Elder, LMHC, NCC, and I will be giving on March 2, 2017 at 9 p.m., Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific. During this free teleseminar, we will discuss: 1. How to determine if you really have a shopping problem. 2.… Continue reading Free Teleseminar: Have You Tried To Stop Overshopping, But Failed, Over and Over Again?

12-Week Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group Are You Concerned About Your Shopping and Spending? If the Answer is Yes, We Can Help. Here’s how: The focus of the 12-week Shopping AddictionTelecoaching Group is on providing help for shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior. The program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. You’ll… Continue reading Help For Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group

Download your matrix here   Your Decisional Balance Matrix: Take your time and write what comes to mind now. Whenever you think of additional costs or benefits, add them to this living document. If I Stop Overshopping If I Continue Overshopping Short-Term Benefits  (1)                  (2) Long-Term Benefits… Continue reading Decisional Balance Matrix

One of the simplest, and most difficult, spiritual practices is being consciously aware. To be consciously aware is more than to notice, although that is the first step. Conscious awareness invites us to engage with our surroundings and the people among whom we find ourselves. It is very easy for us, even tempting, to remain… Continue reading Shopping as a Spiritual Adventure

Motivational speaker Anthony Robbins has identified what he calls “the six human needs,” which may help us better understand shopping addiction. The first three are certainty, variety, and significance. It’s easy to see how someone can use shopping to fill all of these needs. No matter how rocky the rest of your life may be,… Continue reading Shopping And The Six Human Needs Part One

Many women -and men too – love shoes, but when you have over $20,000 worth of them, it’s probably time to reconsider your consumption. Monte, a retired teacher, had “mountainous piles” of shoes. “I was shopping myself to death,” Monte admitted in August of last year. She attributes her shopping addiction to a painful divorce,… Continue reading ‘High-end’ Hoarder Buried Home