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Spent, break the buying obsession and discover your true worth, Sally Palaian

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Spent

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Sally Palaian

break the buying obsession and discover your true worth

Sally Palaian offers proven plans for taking on a range of personal issues with money by examining those underlying emotional, familial, and societal factors that trigger spending behaviors. Spent teaches readers to control shopping, pay off debt, develop budgets, and become financially competent

Money: a complicated problem. A prevalent problem -- A cultural problem -- How this book will help -- The slippery slope from money problems to money addiction -- Criteria for addictions -- Deprivation money addiction -- A continuum of money behaviors -- When money addiction overlaps with other conditions -- Summary -- The emotional sources of money problems -- How family influences money behaviors -- How outer factors influence money addiction -- Summary -- Types of money problems -- The materialism continuum -- The finance continuum -- The money problems matrix -- Indulgers -- Deprivers -- Combinations of behaviors -- Summary -- How money problems affect relationships -- Money in relationships: the inevitable struggle -- Problem users and their partners -- How types of money problems affect a relationship -- When partners are codependents -- When two problem users are involved -- Problem users involved with healthy money managers -- Summary -- Solutions: untangling yourself. Your personal money behaviors -- Your current financial behaviors -- Understanding your money history -- Summary -- Beginning recovery -- Six phases of recovery -- Phase 1: hitting bottom -- Phase 2: accepting and following guidance -- Summary -- Life visions and spending plans -- Phase 3: creating a life vision -- Phase 4: Living with a spending plan -- Learning to make healthy spending choices -- Banking guidelines -- Summary -- Phase 5: changing your thinking, feelings, and impulsive actions -- Triggers -- Preventing impulsive spending -- Identifying and coping with relapse -- Summary -- Phase 6: Living the abundant life -- Signs of financial health -- The sense of abundance -- Finding balance -- Flexibility and trust -- Emotional authenticity -- A unique lifestyle -- Relationships -- Finding true abundance within -- Appendixes. Are you codependent? -- The signs of compulsive debting -- Forms and blank worksheets -- Resources