Attention Shoppers! The Woman's Guide to Enlightenment Through Shopping

Name: Attention Shoppers! The Woman's Guide to Enlightenment Through Shopping
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ISBN: 9780757300998

ISBN-10: 0757300995

ISBN-13: 9780757300998

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eve Eliot

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What is it about shopping that makes it at once so appealing and so anxiety producing? The opportunity for self-knowledge is both seductive and frightening. But the same self-knowledge that enables us to choose just the right handbag and leads us to making confident shopping decisions allows us the experience of our own nature and, finally, a sense of being all right. Therefore, learning how to shop mindfully, in a way that enhances self-awareness-even if only to acknowledge that one's self needs some work-can help a person find the peace that has always seemed just out of reach. This book will show readers how to do just that, and provide encouragement and inspiration every step of the…

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List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Health Communications, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Eve Eliot has had a private psychotherapy practice for eleven years and is co-founder of the Menu for Living Weekend Workshops for compulsive eaters. She lives and works in New York.



Author's Note


Introduction: Finding Self-Awareness Through Shopping


Shopping as Self-Creation


The Mirroring Mother: How a Self Is Formed


Mirror Shock


Shopping Bulimia


The Shopping "Diet": Fat, the Feeling


Objects in Mirror Are Prettier than They Appear


Damaged Goods


Twenty Questions About Shopping


Why You Shop: Thirty-One Reasons


Not Guilty


The Missing-Person Syndrome


Lost and Found


Time-Debting: The Postponed Life


Christmas in September


Chew on This


Attention Shoppers!


What Is It About Shoes?


Big Sale! The Aesthetics of Price


Constructive Discomfort


How to Feel Your Pain in the Country That Invented Sitcoms


The Empty Closet: Nothing to Wear


Secret Lives


Collecting: To Have or Not to Have


Shopping, Beauty and Football: The Hidden Connection


Life After Barbie


Born Again (and Again and Again): Makeovers


Oh! Couture


Some Body Loves You


Closetphobia


Shopping for Free


Shopping Radar


The Special Occasion That Is Now


Objects as Anchors


By the Sea, by the Sea ...


Going to Market


The Shopping Bag


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