Learn more about your Anorexic Mindset and how to break free!
Whether you deprive yourself of food...
or other joys in your life... this course is for you.
or other joys in your life... this course is for you.
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What to expect with the full course:
Understanding
the Anorexic Mindset
Learn how perfectionism, control, and emotional withdrawal shape your thoughts and behaviors — often without you realizing it. You'll begin to see how these patterns affect your relationships, choices, and self-worth.
Challenge the Beliefs That Keep You Stuck
Identify the inner critic and distorted thought loops that fuel shame and self-denial. Then, with Amy's guidance, start to break free from them using reflection, curiosity, and compassion.
Practice New Ways of
Thinking and Feeling
You’ll be guided through exercises and journaling prompts that help you create a mindset based on self-trust, flexibility, and joy. This isn’t about “fixing” you — it’s about finally feeling free.
Create Daily Rituals That Support the Real You
You’ll build on small, meaningful practices to stay connected to your authentic self — not the version of you that’s always chasing approval, thinness, or control.
The Anorexic Mindset
You don’t need to “have anorexia” to carry its mindset. Let’s change this narrative.
The Anorexic Mindset is a deeply ingrained pattern of thinking marked by relentless self-criticism, perfectionism, and a persistent internal voice that judges one’s worth based largely on appearance, control, and achievement. It drives individuals—often women—to impose rigid rules on themselves around food, body image, and behavior, creating a cycle of deprivation, shame, and fear. This mindset goes beyond eating behaviors; it affects how a person experiences their life, relationships, and sense of self, often leading to emotional isolation and diminished personal power.
At its core, the Anorexic Mindset is fueled by a perceived need to be “perfect” to feel worthy or lovable, yet it paradoxically blocks genuine happiness, freedom, and authenticity. Recognizing and naming this mindset is the first step toward breaking free—allowing individuals to cultivate self-compassion, challenge harmful beliefs, and rebuild a healthier, more joyful relationship with themselves and their bodies.
At its core, the Anorexic Mindset is fueled by a perceived need to be “perfect” to feel worthy or lovable, yet it paradoxically blocks genuine happiness, freedom, and authenticity. Recognizing and naming this mindset is the first step toward breaking free—allowing individuals to cultivate self-compassion, challenge harmful beliefs, and rebuild a healthier, more joyful relationship with themselves and their bodies.
The full course offers...
Guides you to break free from the pervasive patriarchal constraints that deprive women of joy, love, achievement, and personal power.
The opportunity to take charge and live your life fully and authentically.
The opportunity to take charge and live your life fully and authentically.
Accredited and recognized
Amy Margolis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Co-Founder and Director of Santa Monica Counseling. Amy specializes in therapy for people recovering from eating disorders, addictions, anxiety, depression, and relational issues.
Interactive learning experience
The course includes various multimedia elements, such as videos and questionnaires, which help to reinforce your understanding of the material and help you break free.
Enhance your learning by journaling or using the digital tools to maximize the experience.
Enhance your learning by journaling or using the digital tools to maximize the experience.
Flexible learning schedule
With this online course you have the freedom to learn at your own pace and choose a schedule that fits your lifestyle.
Choose to complete the course digitally or use the printable PDF worksheets to guide your learning.
Choose to complete the course digitally or use the printable PDF worksheets to guide your learning.
How this course helped our learners break free!
Emily M.
Rachel A.
Daniella G.
Meet the creator
Through decades of work as a licensed therapist, Amy Margolis has seen far too many women struggle with pervasive thinking that deprives them of joy, love, achievement, and personal power—all because of what they think they look like or the number on the scale.
Does this resonate?
Amy realized through her own personal healing journey from an eating disorder that this “deprivation thinking” mindset is nearly identical to the mindset of someone with anorexia. This realization led her to name it the Anorexic Mindset.
Amy will educate you, share stories, and provide tools to help you identify, challenge, and break free from your Anorexic Mindset—so you can take charge and live your life fully and authentically.
Join Amy in this engaging journey of self-reflection and self-empowerment!
Does this resonate?
Amy realized through her own personal healing journey from an eating disorder that this “deprivation thinking” mindset is nearly identical to the mindset of someone with anorexia. This realization led her to name it the Anorexic Mindset.
Amy will educate you, share stories, and provide tools to help you identify, challenge, and break free from your Anorexic Mindset—so you can take charge and live your life fully and authentically.
Join Amy in this engaging journey of self-reflection and self-empowerment!

