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Health Care Reform for Overshoppers: The Centrality of Self Care (Part II)

In the last posting, we saw how important self-care is for the overshopper who wants to stop. We noted that […]

As the president and congress turn their attention to problem elements of our health care image system—notably, skyrocketing costs and

Less in the Pink Than You Might Think No, it’s not that the rate of internet shopping has fallen off.

This is the last of six posts (scroll down to see all of my previous posts) on how overshoppers can

We’ve been exploring the centrality of self-kindness to the process of stopping overshopping. It’s the all-important lubricant that keeps the

In my last posting, I introduced the idea that the current downturn might just be a tipping point for overshoppers,

Astrid Müller, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher from Erlangen University in southern Germany, has been studying compulsive buying for the past

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Viking, 2009) . An old philosopher’s question asks: “If a tree falls in the forest

As we have seen with Mindful Shopping, the road to stopping overshopping often requires introspection and personal reflection. And addiction

According to Trinny and Susannah, the two stars of ITV1’s reality fashion show, now in its second season, Brits spend