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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!

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?

Journal_of_Financial_Therapy_Vol_5_Issue_2_Part_II Carrie RattleCarrie 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. Read More

Costs of Online Shopping Carrie RattleCarrie 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. Read More

Click here to listen to Debbie Roes’ tips on online shopping. Online Shopping Tips Carrie RattleCarrie 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.… Continue reading Debbie’s Online Shopping Tips

A piece for Paradigm magazine by April Lane Benson. Click here to access the complete issue online.  Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. Shopping makes for easy jokes. This post-it version hints at shopping as panacea, a magical elixir that promises more than it could ever deliver. Retailers seize… Continue reading Let’s Stop Smiling at the Smiled-Upon Addiction

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

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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

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

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