Impulse Buys And Your Wellbeing: What Comes First?
Are spending habits linked to wellbeing? What are the factors behind the emotional triggers, and...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: September 24, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. The swift card tap, the one-click order, the package on the doorstep…
- 2. Why are so many purchases made on impulse?
- 3. The emotional drivers of shopping and spending
- 4. Consequences for wellbeing
- 5. What 2020 revealed about our financial habits
- 6. How to spot the signs of an impulse buy
- 7. Time to break the cycle?
- 8. When harmless becomes harmful
- 9. What about spending in the wellbeing space?
- 10. What are fulfilment needs?
- 11. Can better wellbeing protect against impulsive spending?
- 12. Final thoughts
