Can’t stop shopping insanity? Try shopping your own closet! Every minute of every day, inside and outside of every closet, there’s a woman who thinks she’s got nothing to wear. Can you relate? Every day, closet doors open on rooms full of nostalgia and dream sizes, garments we convince ourselves we’ll one day wear again.… Continue reading Stop Shopping!
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Eat, Shop, and Be Merry?
Early on in my study of consumer behavior, I attended a national conference on eating disorders. Catherine Steiner-Adair, one of the keynote speakers, asked the audience what we thought were the two major activities traditionally pursued by women to deal with life’s ups and downs. The silence was palpable. She then answered her own question:… Continue reading Eat, Shop, and Be Merry?
4 Session Interactive Telecourse for Therapists
To Buy or Not to Buy: Theory and Treatment of Compulsive Buying Disorder An interactive 4-session telecourse for mental health professionals taught by April Lane Benson, Ph.D. Editor – I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self (Aronson, 2000) Author – To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and… Continue reading 4 Session Interactive Telecourse for Therapists
Weighing-In (Part 4)
We’ve now looked in some detail at the Daily and Weekly Weigh-Ins, a keeping of numbers that will tell you how much you’ve spent, what you’ve spent it on, and how much you could have saved had you bought only what’s more necessary rather than less. In order for these numbers to begin revealing the… Continue reading Weighing-In (Part 4)
Health Care Reform for Overshoppers (Part III): Self-Respect-The Third Leg of the Self Supporting Stool
In recent postings, we’ve explored two important legs of a three-legged stool that supports stopping overshopping, self-kindness and self-care. Today we look at the crucial third leg, self-respect. Taken with the other two, it offers a solid base from which the thoughtful overshopper can reach for change. Self-respect is having the proud feeling that you… Continue reading Health Care Reform for Overshoppers (Part III): Self-Respect-The Third Leg of the Self Supporting Stool
Continued Media Focus on Compulsive Shopping
Compulsive shopping is pretty much out of the closet now, with continuing treatment in television, film, and print. Here are four recent examples of note: “The Bank of Mom and Dad,” a BBC show that begins airing on SOAPnet September 30th, is “reality programming as a financial-makeover show.” In each episode, a young woman in… Continue reading Continued Media Focus on Compulsive Shopping
Use Your Emotions and Intellect to Access “True Wealth”: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part V)
In this series of posts, we’ve been exploring ways to seize the opportunity that the economic crisis emotions and intellect presents to overshoppers. Even before the downturn, of course, most compulsive buyers found themselves in a financial squeeze. But the new economic realities—the slashed value of retirement accounts, the credit crunch, the mortgage debacle, and… Continue reading Use Your Emotions and Intellect to Access “True Wealth”: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part V)
See and Hear Your Way to Solvency: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part IV)
In this series of postings, we’ve been coloring the landscape of self-kindness, examining healthier alternatives to shopping. The catalyst for this is the current economic downturn and the way its dramatic ratcheting up of financial pressure is forcing overshoppers to, well, take stock of their habit. When they look beneath the surface at what the… Continue reading See and Hear Your Way to Solvency: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing To Waste (Part IV)
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How the Recession Can Help Overshoppers
“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” says a familiar proverb, and as with most proverbs, there’s a nugget of useful truth at the core. Amidst the violent buffeting of today’s economic ill wind, some good can shopping choices not to spendcome to overshoppers. As the nation’s financial crisis deepens, all of us, whether… Continue reading A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How the Recession Can Help Overshoppers
3 Proven Strategies for Stopping Overshopping, Part 2
Now that you’ve gained some familiarity with the first two proven strategies, it’s time to introduce the third strategy, which will help you bring all your awareness together in a way that you take positive action that will help you build the muscle to help you stopping overshopping and start getting what it is that… Continue reading 3 Proven Strategies for Stopping Overshopping, Part 2