Marcia, thank you for an insightful piece on shopping addiction and Avis' story. Whenever you put the word "shopping" out there, it can be easy for some people to dismiss it as light-weight or having a funny angle to it. For some of us, shopping figures heavily in our emotional and psychological lives, and to attempt to get to the root of that takes great courage and perseverence. As entertaining as movies like "Confesssions of a Shopapholic" are, there is a bigger story to it. And your article helped us to see that.
I so appreciated the length and depth of this piece. Many blog articles are short -- we're fearful our audience's attention span wont run to more than 350 words! - but your piece kept my attention the entire way through.
I have been on my own journey, to explore the roots of my relationship to shopping. I started a year without clothes shopping on December 15, 2009, and have been blogging a few times a week about my experiences.
What started as a hobby/personal challenge has turned into something more, as I've been asked if I would be able to support and inspire others who want to take a year out from clothes shopping, but they don't want to have an austere "doing without" year. www.shopyourwardrobe.com was born.
Thanks again Marcia. An insightful and sensitive piece. Bravo.
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Marcia, thank you for an insightful piece on shopping addiction and Avis' story. Whenever you put the word "shopping" out there, it can be easy for some people to dismiss it as light-weight or having a funny angle to it. For some of us, shopping figures heavily in our emotional and psychological lives, and to attempt to get to the root of that takes great courage and perseverence. As entertaining as movies like "Confesssions of a Shopapholic" are, there is a bigger story to it. And your article helped us to see that.
I so appreciated the length and depth of this piece. Many blog articles are short -- we're fearful our audience's attention span wont run to more than 350 words! - but your piece kept my attention the entire way through.
I have been on my own journey, to explore the roots of my relationship to shopping. I started a year without clothes shopping on December 15, 2009, and have been blogging a few times a week about my experiences.
What started as a hobby/personal challenge has turned into something more, as I've been asked if I would be able to support and inspire others who want to take a year out from clothes shopping, but they don't want to have an austere "doing without" year. www.shopyourwardrobe.com was born.
Thanks again Marcia. An insightful and sensitive piece. Bravo.
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