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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Avis Cardella, the author and a recovering shopping addict, recounts her experience of shopping addiction in her book, "Memories of a shopping addict." She describes the highs and lows, the emotional and financial consequences, and her journey to recovery.
As I wrote in my book, I spent memories of a shopping addict.
— Episode: Confessions Of a Real Shopaholic
Episode: Confessions Of a Real Shopaholic
Avis Cardella, the author and a recovering shopping addict, recounts her experience of shopping addiction in her book, "Memories of a shopping addict." She describes the highs and lows, the emotional and financial consequences, and her journey to recovery.
As I wrote in my book, I spent memories of a shopping addict.
In the book, I describe the first moment I knew something was wrong, which I call the "Cossabella incident."
I was shopping to escape from other things, from emotions. And that was for me a first indication of that my shopping wasn't normal.
When my mother died I think I looked to shopping as a comfort zone and as something to do to build a sense of myself because my sense of myself seemed to have been kind of demolished and just destroyed and I built this almost shell of Avis.
It was a shell. It was an empty part inside and that was like one of those Easter eggs that you crack open and there's nothing inside. It's like the chocolate egg that's hollow inside and it was that hollowness inside that eventually got to me I think and that's I think for a lot of shopping addicts there's that component.