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To Buy or Not to Buy, About the Book:
This warm, engaging, and thorough book—To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop draws on decades of clinical experience and research to offer comprehensive, effective help and a host of proven tips, tools, techniques, and strategies. Demonstrating that “you can never get enough of what you don’t really need,” overshoppers are invited and guided to reclaim control of their lives.
The premise of To Buy or Not to Buy is simple and compelling: overshopping is a doomed attempt to fill emotional needs with material goods. This guide book thoughtfully helps compulsive shoppers go the distance from where they are now to where they want to be—centered, in control, knowing who they are, what they want, and what they really need.
This warm, engaging, and thorough book—To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop draws on decades of clinical experience and research to offer comprehensive, effective help and a host of proven tips, tools, techniques, and strategies. Demonstrating that “you can never get enough of what you don’t really need,” overshoppers are invited and guided to reclaim control of their lives.
The premise of To Buy or Not to Buy is simple and compelling: overshopping is a doomed attempt to fill emotional needs with material goods. This guide book thoughtfully helps compulsive shoppers go the distance from where they are now to where they want to be—centered, in control, knowing who they are, what they want, and what they really need.
Partner Journals
You can combine To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop with two journals and our Self-Help program. If you choose to buy the Self-Help program, you will receive the book and journals at no extra cost to you. If you try the book, journals and online Self-Help program, and still feel you need more accountability or assistance to stop shopping, your money won’t be wasted. Our Private and Group Coaching programs use the same book and journals with the added expertise of a coach.
These portable companions include question prompts and room to write. They aid your introspection as you make your way through the text, bringing the powerful techniques and strategies of To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop directly to your shopping encounters.
What People Say
“This is a practical and deeply needed book. Overshopping tries to fill a hole that stuff was never meant to fill. To Buy or Not to Buy names that hook with real clarity, then shows us how to free ourselves from it.”
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety and The Craving Mind
“With expertise and kindness, Dr. Benson and Carrie Rattle offer a practical and supportive approach to curbing overspending. This book provides valuable insights into personal experiences with money, along with exercises designed to help train your mind to reevaluate your approach to shopping. It is an excellent read for anyone looking to regain control over the urge to spend and press forward on a path to financial success.”
Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, author of The Next Millionaire Next Door and president of DataPoints (a technology company that provides financial psychology tools to enhance wealth-building)
“This book is an essential guide for anyone struggling with compulsive shopping, as well as the financial professionals who support them. Overspending can be hidden behind wealth, but it still brings shame, and frustration at the loss of control. This book offers a path from self-sabotage to self-respect—helping readers regain control of their spending, protect their savings, and build healthier financial habits.”
Stacy Francis, president and CEO of Francis Financial, a multi-award-winning wealth management company for women
“I’ve recommended To Buy or Not to Buy to overshoppers for decades. It addresses what many financial books miss: we are rarely shopping just for things—we are trying to satisfy a longing we cannot name. This revised edition, updated for a world of endless scrolling and one-click purchases, offers compassionate, practical help for understanding what drives your spending and building healthier relationships with shopping, money, and yourself.”
Bari Tessler, MA, author of The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness
“With To Buy or Not to Buy, Dr. Benson has written an extremely helpful book for the millions of Americans afflicted with compulsive buying. She shows compulsive buyers how to uncover the individual psychological and social roots of their disordered behavior. She helps them understand that material goods are masqueraders luring them from the real satisfactions they seek in life. She provides wise means to achieve a fulfilling life instead of experiencing the endless dissatisfaction brought by the mindless, soulless pursuit of possessions. Her book provides a rational, practical, clear, step-by-step method to first recognize, second control and lastly abandon the material and emotional poverty of compulsive buying. I recommend it without hesitation to compulsive buyers and to those who love them”
Lorrin Koran, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University Medical School
“In this warm, wonderful book, Dr. Benson has given overshoppers an eminently readable road map filled with valuable exercises with which to make the journey from overshopping and overspending to full recovery and life balance. As a money psychology expert for over 25 years, I particularly enjoyed her use of mindfulness techniques, and exploration of spirituality as part of the healing process. Every overshopper needs to buy and use this book!”
Olivia Mellan
Speaker, Money Coach
Author, “Overcoming Overspending: A Winning Plan for Spenders and their Partners”
New Release:
“To Buy or Not to Buy”
Why We Overshop and How to Stop, 2nd Edition
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