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Overcoming Overspending: A Winning Plan for Spenders and Their Partners

by Olivia Mellan

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Publisher Comments:

Never has overspending been more widespread, as people struggle under mushrooming personal debt. Overspenders need to do more than cut up their credit cards; they need to understand their relationship to money.

For more than 20 years, Olivia Mellan has helped couples and individuals understand their attitudes and change their behavior toward money. "Overcoming Overspending" is her dynamic, compassionate plan to guide overspenders and those who love them, through the emotional steps necessary to control overspending. Her book has been excerpted or quoted in newspapers and magazines across the country, including Readers Digest, Cosmopolitan, and USA Today. She has shared her tips on overspending with viewers and listeners on television and radio programs from New York to Los Angeles, including twice on Oprah. Now, her important book is available to a wide new audience.

"Never preachy...enormously useful". — Publishers Weekly

"This is an excellent book that should be read by all couples whether they think they have a problem with over-spending or not". — Library Journal

"The book is geared toward couples, but will help anyone who recognizes overspending as a problem". — Chicago Life

"Mellan's book covers a lot of new ground.... What it can do is help money-distressed couples get back on the right path together and preserve their most precious asset each other". — San Diego Daily Transcript

"An excellent, basic guide". — The Bookwatch

"The reader is provided with strong tools to refocus and re-center while at the same time learning to be creative and feel better about themselves". — BookScapes

Synopsis:

Do you or someone you love have trouble saying "No" when the urge to spend strikes? Are you always living on the edge financially because your intention to save money is never as strong as your compulsion to spend it?

 
In Overcoming Overspending, acclaimed money therapist Olivia Mellan offers a dynamic, compassionate program that will help spenders understand why they overspend and how they can stop, and will empower their partners or family to provide the support so critical to this process.

Mellan has been helping couples and individuals adjust their attitudes toward money for more than twenty years, and she presents here the positive exercises, dialogues, and other communication strategies that are the focus of her private practice and nationwide workshops:

•self-assessment quizzes that pinpoint the deep-seated causes of overspending;

•innovative exercises to help control the impulse to spend;

•communication exercises and dialogues to help spenders and their partners heal a relationship distressed by money conflicts.

 
In addition, Mellan provides real-life stories of individuals and couples facing and triumphing over harmful spending habits.

If overspending is a central problem in your life, Overcoming Overspending is a win/win solution.

About the Author

Olivia Mellan is the bestselling author of several books on money-conflict resolution, including MONEY SHY TO MONEY SURE: A Woman’s Road Map to Financial Well-Being (2001 hardcover), MONEY HARMONY: Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships (1994 hardcover; 1995 paperback) and OVERCOMING OVERSPENDING: A Winning Plan for Spenders and Their Partners (1995 hardcover; 1997 paperback), all published by Walker & Company.

Mellan is a groundbreaking therapist in the field of money-conflict resolution; Money magazine calls her “the matriarch of a fast-growing list of couples money therapists.” She gives seminars nationwide and has appeared regularly on national television including Oprah, Today, 20/20, and the PBS-TV series In the Prime.

She is regularly quoted in national publications such as Psychology Today, Woman’s Day, and Modern Maturity, among others. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines and professional journals ranging from Working Woman to Money, and she writes a regular column called “The Psychology of Advice” for Dow Jones Investment Advisor. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780802774958
Author:
Mellan, Olivia
Publisher:
Walker & Company
With:
Christie, Sherry
Author:
Christie, Sherry
Location:
New York
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
Neuropsychology
Subject:
Finance, personal
Subject:
Personal Finance - Money Management
Subject:
Saving and thrift
Subject:
Compulsive shopping
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
3565
Publication Date:
September 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
216
Dimensions:
8.98x6.12x.55 in. .71 lbs.

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