Here's the Memo!

Here's the Memo! is Amy's love letter to all women help them break free of their internalized patriarchal deprivation mindset, successfully navigate the many chapters of their lives, and live with more self-love, freedom, happiness, and personal power!

Hi! Here’s the Memo!, a collection of every memo I wish I had gotten when I needed it most, is my love letter to all women who walk beside and will come after me.

My "memo collecting" has been both a personal and professional journey I have been on since age 19 when I began my own recovery from Anorexia.  And though I always knew I wanted to write a book, that call has become louder in the past few years as I've noticed in my work as a therapist and my deep female friendships that women of every shape and size struggle with deprivation thinking, which is very much like Anorexic thinking!  Thinking that robs them of fully enjoying their lives and showing up authentically because of what they have, do, and look like! 

Due to patriarchal norms, women are constantly struggling with perfectionism, having to accomplish to feel worthy, pathologizing their appetites and desires, comparing themselves to others and coming up short, and the list goes on!

Here's the Memo! contains personal stories, professional theories, and exercises (with a sprinkling of spirituality and four-letter words;) that will help women free themselves from this deprivation mindset, successfully navigate the many chapters of their lives, and live with more self-love, freedom, happiness, and personal power!

Amy Margolis, LCSW, is a licensed therapist and co-clinical director of Santa Monica Counseling. Amy works with individuals and couples and runs groups for clients seeking healing in eating disorders, addictions, anxiety, depression, and related issues. She also supervises ASWs and AMFTs in gaining their clinical hours. Outside the clinical world, Amy is a Meisner and Groundlings trained actor, who has focused primarily on voice-over work. She has worked for Nickelodeon, Netlix, Disney Junior and on many commercials, podcasts, and video games. Mostly, Amy loves being a momma! She is married to Hank and together they have three children, Caroline, Jack, and Matthew and a dog, Riley and cat, Milo. You can follow Amy on Instagram @heres_the_memo and on Facebook at Amy Margolis LCSW.