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Why Do I Shop When I’m Anxious?
With Zuzana Robertson, AFBPsS, MSc, CSciStop the cycle of anxious spending and shopping regret. If you’ve ever bought something you didn’t need, felt a rush, then felt guilty an hour later, this course is for you. This isn’t a budgeting course. It won’t tell you to make a spreadsheet or cut up your cards. It’s a nervous system approach to emotional spending, built by a Psychologist. In five short sessions you’ll learn to spot your personal spending loop before it takes over, understand the real insecurity or stress driving the urge, ride out cravings without giving in to them, meet your actual emotional needs instead of shopping to numb them, and build a sense of worth that doesn’t depend on what you buy. Backed by neuroscience. No shame, no restriction. Just awareness and a calmer relationship with money. Start with Day One.
A 5-Day Money and Nervous System Reset backed by neuroscience
About this course
Stop the cycle of anxious spending and shopping regret. If you’ve ever bought something you didn’t need, felt a rush, then felt guilty an hour later, this course is for you. This isn’t a budgeting course. It won’t tell you to make a spreadsheet or cut up your cards. It’s a nervous system approach to emotional spending, built by a Psychologist. In five short sessions you’ll learn to spot your personal spending loop before it takes over, understand the real insecurity or stress driving the urge, ride out cravings without giving in to them, meet your actual emotional needs instead of shopping to numb them, and build a sense of worth that doesn’t depend on what you buy. Backed by neuroscience. No shame, no restriction. Just awareness and a calmer relationship with money. Start with Day One.
Meet your Teacher
Zuzana Robertson is a psychologist with over 18 years of experience. Her work focuses on understanding the psychological mechanisms that drive behavioral patterns, emotional regulation strategies, and self-worth instability. Through her teaching, she integrates cognitive behavioral principles, nervous system science, habit formation research, and attachment-informed perspectives. She has a particular interest in how modern environments - including consumer culture - influence identity, comparison, and emotional coping patterns. Rather than approaching behavior change through restriction or willpower, her work emphasizes awareness, regulation capacity, and identity-level shifts. She combines psychoeducation with guided experiential practices designed to support sustainable, internally anchored change. Her teaching style is structured, psychologically informed, and calm, creating a thoughtful space for self-reflection and behavioral transformation.