Emotional Spending — Black Women Be Shoppin’

 


 


Black Women residing in what we’ve come to know as the
Strong Black Woman or Superwoman Syndrome often
seek peace and refuge in retail therapy aka emotional
spending. 


She seeks this refuge online, in a mall, or even at a car
dealership—she’s  just looking for something to comfort her
mentally and/or emotionally and in more cases than not, that
comfort comes with a hefty price tag.


Her spending is directly related to her feeling overwhelmed,
undervalued, neglected, angry, disconnected – the greater
the pain she’s experiencing in that moment, the higher the price
tag for rewarding herself.


Emotional spending in its simplest form is buying things with the
hopes that it will make us feel better about whatever emotional
pain we’re experiencing.  But it can also break the bank,
AND it doesn’t necessarily help you deal with whatever 
triggered the spending in the first place
Emotional spending  breeds financial dysfunction
and that dysfunction is passed down to our children and our
children’s children’s children – err go generational
curses.

In this episode, Natty and I get candid about our experiences
with emotional spending and impulse buying.  


In addition to sharing our experiences, we  offered
suggestions on how to recognize your spending triggers, as well
as alternative (no cost) coping techniques that you can easily
implement when life gets to be too much.


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