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!
Category: Compulsive Buying
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?
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?
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
Are You Giving Your Seasonal Shopaholic Credit Card Blanche?
We’re smack dab in the middle of Chanukah and there’s less than a week until Christmas, still plenty of time to limit holiday overspending and bring more meaning and merriment into your life. I’ve written a piece, published yesterday in the Huffington Post that just might help you have a good, not a goods holiday–and… Continue reading Are You Giving Your Seasonal Shopaholic Credit Card Blanche?
Are You Raising a Shopaholic? The Story of Four Kids Glorified for Overshopping
Thanks to google alerts, I stumbled upon 12-Year Old Shopaholic and Other Big Spending Kids, an eye-opening and shudder-worthy British documentary, that aired this past June. Glorifying over-the-top spending, this 3-part series profiles four kids, ages 9 to 15 and their well-meaning, but confused and overindulgent parents whose own unresolved issues result in massive overspending, their financial… Continue reading Are You Raising a Shopaholic? The Story of Four Kids Glorified for Overshopping
Shopaholic Recovery Stories
At Stopping Overshopping, LLC, we’re very interested in hearing recovery stories and reading about them. There is no one-size-fits-all method for taking control of your shopping and spending. In fact, recovery stories come in all shapes and sizes and recovery can begin anytime, anyplace! We recently discovered three inspirational recovery stories—one overshopper is a writer… Continue reading Shopaholic Recovery Stories
Male Shopaholics – The Truth
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
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
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.