{"product_id":"checkout-declined-shopping-addiction-recovery-stories","title":"Checkout Declined: Shopping Addiction Recovery Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eForty unopened boxes stood stacked to shoulder height behind the lawnmower in a Columbus garage, and a husband clearing space for a truck found them first. Elsewhere it was bags in an airing cupboard, a second card behind a driving licence, a short double ping from a courier app. The writers here describe the urge, the brief lift, the hiding, and what it took to tell one person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this volume\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty first-person accounts describe compulsive shopping and the slow work of stopping. What started it varied: a mother's death, a divorce, the wait through IVF, the quiet after a wedding, sobriety from alcohol, a manic episode, chronic pain that kept one woman on the sofa, and nights alone after long days at a bank. The writers include a warehouse supervisor with 140 pairs of sneakers, a retired dinner lady and the shopping channel, an ICU nurse buying gifts for everyone, a fly-in fly-out worker, a knitter with a yarn stash, a trading card collector, a retired firefighter and a husband living beside his wife's spending, from Columbus and Lagos to Cork, Cebu and Cape Town. They describe live sales, haul videos, fourteen buy-now-pay-later plans, restricted returns, eleven sofas, a basement of bulk buys and a storage unit of car parts. Ways out include Debtors Anonymous, therapy, a no-buy challenge, cash envelopes, a spreadsheet read together, a family doctor who asked the right question and simply learning to sit with the urge. Not every ending is settled: there are court judgments, debts still being repaid, children who picked up the habit, and a writer who has relapsed twice and is still in the middle of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone whose spending has stopped feeling like a treat, for partners and grown children who have found a statement they were not meant to see, and for counsellors who support them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e · Instant download · PDF \u0026amp; EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Healing Stories Network","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67801167462502,"sku":"HSN-1024","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/1334\/9990\/files\/1024_-_Checkout_Declined.png?v=1792688512","url":"https:\/\/healingstoriesnetwork.com\/products\/checkout-declined-shopping-addiction-recovery-stories","provider":"Healing Stories Network","version":"1.0","type":"link"}