With the holidays fast approaching, overshoppers and overspenders are heading into some very rough waters. There’s temptation everywhere, and mega pressure to buy, buy, buy. How can you, someone who is struggling with impulses to overshop and overspend, get effective help from your support system? What can you, as a loved one, do or say… Continue reading Getting and Giving the Right Kind of Support: What Overshoppers and their Loved Ones Need to Know!
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Do you have an overshopper or overspender in your life? Unique holiday gift idea!
Have you been watching a loved one struggle with overshopping or overspending for some time? Do you feel helpless and wish you could help them change this behavior for the better? Are you concerned about his or her behavior affecting your own financial health? Perhaps your loved one has looked into coaching or psychotherapy before, but hasn’t been… Continue reading Do you have an overshopper or overspender in your life? Unique holiday gift idea!
Can Shopping Transcend the Fear of Death?
The world we live in is a confusing and chaotic place. News stories surprise and astound us daily—from the discovery of Genie, a child bound to a crib for 13 years, to claims of the next apocalypse. It is often difficult to wrap our mind around what happens in our world, our country, even in… Continue reading Can Shopping Transcend the Fear of Death?
Does Sadness Bring Happiness or is that Inside Out?
Compulsive buying, like so many other self-defeating habits and addictions, is often an attempt to anesthetize negative feelings, diminish their intensity, or suppress them altogether. Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, trumpets the value of feeling all of our feelings, whether they are Anger, Sadness, Joy, Fear, or Disgust, the five feelings personified as characters in… Continue reading Does Sadness Bring Happiness or is that Inside Out?
A Look at Inside Out: Can Sadness Ultimately Bring Happiness?
Compulsive buying, like so many other self-defeating habits and addictions, is often an attempt to anesthetize negative feelings, diminish their intensity, or suppress them altogether. Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, trumpets the value of feeling all of our feelings, whether they are Anger, Sadness, Joy, Fear, or Disgust, the five feelings personified as characters in… Continue reading A Look at Inside Out: Can Sadness Ultimately Bring Happiness?
Is New Brain Research on Happiness Creating a Monster?
You know the feeling. That little rush when your eye drifts to the ads on the side of your favorite social media page. Those little blurbs speak to your love of leather handbags, gourmet burgers, or tech gadgets. They call for just a quick click, a minute browse… and your credit card. Those ads – and… Continue reading Is New Brain Research on Happiness Creating a Monster?
What Stage of Change Are You In?
Despite what you see when you look at your credit card bills or what you hear when a creditor calls, or what you see when you try to open your closet and stuff falls on you, do you still think that your shopping is under control? Have you begun to see the costs, financial and… Continue reading What Stage of Change Are You In?
Are you Overshopping or Overspending? Personalized Text Messages Can Help
Shopaholics and compulsive buyers have a new, affordable resource for help. Stopping Overshopping, LLC has just released an innovative, interactive text-messaging program that directs, inspires, and motivates shopping addicts to stop overshopping. The program is tailored specifically to each participant’s overshopping profile and it provides daily, personalized support when overshoppers need it the most. Text messaging programs have helped people… Continue reading Are you Overshopping or Overspending? Personalized Text Messages Can Help
2014 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
2014 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying Neda (December 9, 2014) Food, Finances, & Eating Disorders U.S. News & World Report (December 2, 2014) 5 Ways to Combat an Online Shopping Addiction Gambit (December 1, 2014) What do do if Internet shopping becomes an addiction Vancouverdesi.com (December 1, 2014) Shopping Spree or Shopping Problem? GoBankingRates (November 28,… Continue reading 2014 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
Journal of Financial Therapy
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