Too much shopping may give us the lift we crave just like any other addiction but the feeling is temporary and not the reality.

Over-buying and compulsive shopping behaviour is no different to binge eating. The empty emotional hole that you’re trying to fill with clothing will never be satisfied and I know as an ex shopaholic. Shopping offers a temporary high and often excessive shopping can become a coping method to distract yourself from the real underlying problem, you are unhappy and unfulfilled. You believe shopping is the answer to all your prayers!

The problem with this...

So yesterday I met with one of my free life coaching clients to discuss and update on her on going compulsive, out of control urges to shop even when her debts are spiralling out of control and was surprised to see some significant progress. It is not normally difficult to cure a shopping addiction because in reality, how can shopping be an illness when there are no pills available to cure it?

When you are addicted to something you cannot survive without it and...