Buried in Treasures

Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding

By: David Tolin, Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee

Narrated by: Audrey Cannon

While most people find it relatively easy to manage their possessions, some find it extremely difficult. If you have a problem resisting the urge to acquire and you find your home cluttered and filled to capacity with items many people would find useless and unnecessary, you may suffer from a condition known as hoarding disorder.

Hoarding is a behavioral problem consisting of clutter, difficulty discarding items, and excessive buying or acquiring. Hoarding is often associated with significant reduction in quality of life, and in extreme cases, it can pose serious health risks. If you or a loved one has hoarding disorder, this book can help.

This fully updated second edition of Buried in Treasures outlines a scientifically-based, effective program for helping those with hoarding disorder dig their way out of the clutter and chaos of their homes. Written by scientists and practitioners who are leaders in studying and treating hoarding disorder, this book outlines a program of skill-building, learning to think about possessions in a different way, and gradual challenges to help people manage their clutter and their lives. It also provides useful information for family and friends of people who hoard, as they struggle to understand and help.

Discover the reasons for your problems with acquiring, saving, and hoarding, and learn new ways of thinking about your possessions so you can decide what you really need and what you can do without. Learn to identify the "bad guys" that cause and maintain your hoarding behavior and meet the "good guys" who can help motivate you and put you on the path to change. Useful self-assessments will help you determine the severity of your problem. Training exercises, case examples, organizing tips, and motivation boosters help change the way you think and behave toward your possessions. This book provides easy-to-understand strategies and techniques that anyone can use.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Helpful considerations

I found the book helpful for looking at items and behaviors in different ways. Identifying "the bad guys" that I struggle with and how to better handle those was a helpful aspect as well. Overall a good book however as an audiobook the worksheet aspect might be less practical for some people. I didn't take the time to do the worksheets that go with the book since I was listening during other tasks. I've already reccommended the book to others though since it is good for getting your head around hoarding.

Great listen 👂

Loved the book. I only wish I could've gotten the downloads properly. No worries tho ☮️

This book was not like any other clutter book

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I have bought other books on decluttering but they really didn’t help. However this book goes deep in the root causes of your cluttering issues. I kept telling myself this book was written just for me!! Every word in the book resonated with my brain, my mind. I cannot recommend this book enough!! If you’ve tried to declutter your home with no success, you need to listen to this book! It will help you in a much deeper level than trying to find out if an item sparks joy or trying to death clean. To the authors thank you so much for writing this book. You’re all a Godsend!

A must read for hoarding

This fantastic book has been life changing for my home as well as my spirit. The exercises are deep and soul searching and brought to the surface hidden fears I had.

This Book Was Amazing

I really appreciated this book. I did all of the writing prompts and used it to go thrift my house. it also gave me great clarity on being raised in a hoarder home and what was actually going on. I suffer from chronic disorganization due to this and this book showed me that it is due to old rules I had to follow that don't even align with me. I would reccomend this to anyone, as it could help anyone manage their things.

Excellent Steps

This book is wonderful for helping with decluttering and hoarding. It has step-by-step instructions, pause notifications to use PDF sheets and it's very simple to understand and follow. I will be listening to it often to get control of my chaos.

A Glimmer of Hope For Those Buried in Treasures

The treasure that I found in this book is HOPE! This book has helped me to have a greater understanding of hoarding disorder. It discusses many of the emotions and cognitive errors that persons who struggle with hoarding may experience. It addresses how others might assist someone who has this disorder. It provides action steps for those who struggle with hoarding and are ready to take steps towards recovery. The book is full of assignments and activities to complete so having a physical copy would be most helpful. I will listen to this book again and again and if the activity pages aren’t available online then I will be purchasing the physical book. I’m so glad that I found this!

This is a good one...

Have a major clutter/Hoarding problem? This is a great book for you. I love that it explains what Hoarding is, how it may look different, why it happens, and a ton of tips and resources to help!

Honest approach

It is refreshing to not only have a book call it like it is but this one gives you exercises to make change. It also comes with the work sheet to do the work as you listen.

Highly Recommended

I read this with a group and decided to get the audio to help keep me on track.