Are You Committing Financial Infidelity?

You May Be Without Knowing It According to research 27% of people ADMIT to keeping a secret from their partner and 53% actual DO keep a secret. Get the list of most common Financial Infidelity Behaviors and see how you score compared to other couples. Questionnaire Please Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com,… Continue reading Are You Committing Financial Infidelity?

Behavioral Addiction Recovery: A Guide for Families, Friends, Colleagues, and Roommates

We were recently introduced to an excellent article, Behavioral Addiction Recovery: A Guide for Families, Friends, Colleagues, and Roommates. What defines a behavioral addiction, how one develops, and how to support a loved one in recovery from a behavioral addiction are all covered in the piece. You can access the full guide here: onlinepsych.pepperdine.edu/blog/behavioral-addiction-recovery-tips/ *OnlinePsychology@Pepperdine,… Continue reading Behavioral Addiction Recovery: A Guide for Families, Friends, Colleagues, and Roommates

How to Keep Black Friday from Becoming Red Saturday

How to Keep Black Friday from Becoming Red Saturday This year we’re taking a different approach to connecting with you about holiday shopping and spending. Rather than write holiday blogposts, we’re holding several Facebook live events that we hope will feel like holiday experience gifts to each of you. As soon as those are scheduled,… Continue reading How to Keep Black Friday from Becoming Red Saturday

Can Confessions Be Funny? What One Overshopper Has to Say

You may remember these two recent blog posts, an overshopper named Lynn. Believe it or Not, It’s True: Nordstrom and I Are Through (Part I) and Believe it or Not, It’s True: Nordstrom and I Are Through (Part II) These posts are what she wrote for the dialogue exercise, a part of our program where you… Continue reading Can Confessions Be Funny? What One Overshopper Has to Say

The “Smiled Upon” Addiction: An article from Glamour Magazine

“If someone tells you,  you have a problem, cut them off. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life.”  Thus begins Glamour magazine’s recent article, 10 things you only know if you’re addicted to sale shopping. Brashly glamorizing addiction to sale shopping, one subcategory of shopping addiction, this piece ranks a close second… Continue reading The “Smiled Upon” Addiction: An article from Glamour Magazine

On Compulsive Buying: And Then There are the Holidays

We’ve been fortunate that Kathleen Gemmell, an eclectic  author and former compulsive buyer offered us a guest post about her own recovery journey which began four years ago, when her son, who could no longer sit by and watch his mother buy herself into oblivion, arranged for an “intervention.”  Kathleen Gemmell loves playing with written… Continue reading On Compulsive Buying: And Then There are the Holidays

Have a Good not a Goods Holiday: Let Go of the Baggage

Are you dreading the holidays? Are wishes, longings, fears, and expectations getting you down? For many people, the end of year holidays are some of the most difficult times of the year, not only challenging, but potentially isolating. Please join psychologist April Lane Benson, expert on compulsive buying disorder and author of To Buy or… Continue reading Have a Good not a Goods Holiday: Let Go of the Baggage

These Shoes and Baggage Fit Most Shopaholics

Touched, tickled, and terribly impressed, I left last Wednesday’s performance of Cheryl Stern’s Shoes and Baggage feeling buoyed and hopeful that compulsive buying may yet really come out of the closet, and this time for good! As this funny, poignant, and thoughtful one-woman musical odyssey opens, the audience is bombarded with a plethora of advertising… Continue reading These Shoes and Baggage Fit Most Shopaholics