Alicia Berman

I think you have to find alternative means of getting that dopamine.

You can't just kind of expect to deprive yourself and for it to work like you will fail.

I kind of had this, like, newfound mental clarity, and I was like, what, like...

What am I feeling?

Essentially, I had gone through like detox and withdrawal, like from the dopamine that you get from shopping.

I broke my no-buy.

I bought a pair of shoes that, to be fair, I have been wanting for probably close to 10 years.

They're Alexander Wang.

They're called the Sloan boot.

They look like Frankenstein boots.

Most people won't like them, but I love them.

Y'all, I broke my no-buy.

So I've wanted these shoes since 2014 when I saw them on the runway, and I just found these for such a good price, and I am so happy.

So I am very proud of myself, which is not, I don't really, I never really felt very proud.

I've seen a new level of dedication and focus that maybe I wasn't aware of.

It's not that I didn't have it.

It's just that I wasn't aware that I was capable of it before.