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12-Week Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group Are You Concerned About Your Shopping and Spending? If the Answer is Yes, We Can Help. Here’s how: The focus of the 12-week Shopping AddictionTelecoaching Group is on providing help for shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior. The program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. You’ll… Continue reading Help For Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group

Download your matrix here   Your Decisional Balance Matrix: Take your time and write what comes to mind now. Whenever you think of additional costs or benefits, add them to this living document. If I Stop Overshopping If I Continue Overshopping Short-Term Benefits  (1)                  (2) Long-Term Benefits… Continue reading Decisional Balance Matrix

According to their self-report, about 10% of all adults in western countries report themselves as displaying compulsive buying symptoms. How to explain the proliferation of this behavior; why does 10%  of the western world continue to overshop in the face of debt, seriously compromised relationships, guilt, shame, anxiety and deteriorating self-worth? Ryan Howell, Associate Professor… Continue reading Why Do Shopping Addicts Keep Spending Their Money?

One of the simplest, and most difficult, spiritual practices is being consciously aware. To be consciously aware is more than to notice, although that is the first step. Conscious awareness invites us to engage with our surroundings and the people among whom we find ourselves. It is very easy for us, even tempting, to remain… Continue reading Shopping as a Spiritual Adventure

Motivational speaker Anthony Robbins has identified what he calls “the six human needs,” which may help us better understand shopping addiction. The first three are certainty, variety, and significance. It’s easy to see how someone can use shopping to fill all of these needs. No matter how rocky the rest of your life may be,… Continue reading Shopping And The Six Human Needs Part One

Many women -and men too – love shoes, but when you have over $20,000 worth of them, it’s probably time to reconsider your consumption. Monte, a retired teacher, had “mountainous piles” of shoes. “I was shopping myself to death,” Monte admitted in August of last year. She attributes her shopping addiction to a painful divorce,… Continue reading ‘High-end’ Hoarder Buried Home

Dr. David Tolin is founder and director of the Anxiety Disorders Center and serves in a number of other capacities at the Institute of Living. He hosts a new television show called “My Shopping Addiction,” which airs on the Oxygen Network Mondays at 11pm. He has appeared on Oprah and Oz, and has some words… Continue reading Shopping Addiction? There Is Help

Most households are familiar with clutter. Papers on the table, toys left out on the floor, those little signs of a busy life that sometimes inhabit the home. But when it comes to hoarding there is a clear distinction between just a messy house and compulsive hoarding. Recent television shows have been highlighting cases of… Continue reading Harmless Pack Rat or Compulsive Hoarder?

Joshua Becker shares his eight reasons why keeping a journal will help us reach our goals:  1.) Keeping a journal requires us to write out our goals; a great way to declare our intentions and clarify them. 2.) A journal is a record of our progress toward those goals. 3.) Writing requires us to think… Continue reading Eight Reasons Keeping a Journal Can Help You Reach Your Goals

Beginning next Monday night, October 15th, the new reality show My Shopping Addiction will air on Oxygen — and I can’t wait to see it!  Shopping addiction, so prevalent and so under recognized, has been a really hard sell to both the general public and the professional community. My Shopping Addiction has the potential to be enormously helpful… Continue reading My Shopping Addiction, a new reality show on Oxygen begins October 15th!