By: Georgia Watson As you sign for the fifth package of the week, the courier smiles at you. “Shopping again, love?” You nod dutifully, not wanting to admit that the box belongs to your husband…they all do. We all joke about being shopaholics, especially after a splurge in the Zara sale, but how do you… Continue reading Male Shopaholics – The Truth
Author: Carrie Rattle
Carrie 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.
Just-Published Study…
The Stopping Overshopping Program Is Extremely Effective
The Stopping Overshopping Program Is Extremely Effective
If you can’t stop yourself from yet one more costly trip to the mall, if you can’t resist the urge to splurge, no matter wherever and whenever it strikes, realistic hope is finally here. Our just-published study indicates that The Stopping Overshopping Program can significantly decrease the severity and the frequency of compulsive buying behavior.… Continue reading
The Stopping Overshopping Program Is Extremely Effective
Free Report
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
Can A Handbag Save You Money? You Might be Surprised.
Millions of us and, and particularly shopaholics, are constantly buffeted by emotional waves that make it nigh on impossible to surf the urge to splurge. Mix in high-risk times and venues, credit card in hand, and it’s essentially a wipeout. Australian comparison website creditcardfinder.com.au, has devised a novel, potentially very effective, and time sensitive solution… Continue reading Can A Handbag Save You Money? You Might be Surprised.
Compulsive Buying Disorder Can Be Deadly
Whenever I talk about compulsive buying and get the feeling, either from some nonverbal cue or from what my listener actually says, that he or she just doesn’t see the dangers, I cringe. “That’s an addiction?” one asks. “Are there really that many people who do this?” queries another. “It’s not serious like an eating… Continue reading Compulsive Buying Disorder Can Be Deadly
Treatment for Brain-Injury Related Compulsive Buying May Hold Promise for Other Overshoppers
Compulsive buying can be uncontrollable, especially if it’s a result of brain injury that affects brain circuitry associated with impulse, desire, will, and restraint. According to Dr. Max Gomez in a recent CBS report, this connection was first made when a drug called Nuedexta, which is FDA approved to treat uncontrollable laughter or crying after a… Continue reading Treatment for Brain-Injury Related Compulsive Buying May Hold Promise for Other Overshoppers
Listen To This Clip
Alexis Hall was 31,637.84 pounds in debt. That’s over $57,000 in American money! You’ll hear how she used her fear to kickstart her healing journey and…how you can do the same. Listen to this Part of Our Conversation These three 1-hour conversations I had with three different women, who each wrote a book about her… Continue reading Listen To This Clip
Related Blogs / Articles / 2013
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
Free Teleseminar: Have You Tried To Stop Overshopping, But Failed, Over and Over Again?
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?
What Aging Has to Tell Us About Fashion
While we traditionally make relatively short-term New Year’s resolutions, it’s also when many of our thoughts turn to aging, that unavoidable measure of the passage of time. Along with the inevitable decline of some of our faculties, there’s often – at least for septuagenarians and even older seniors – an increased clarity about whom we… Continue reading What Aging Has to Tell Us About Fashion