Always striving... but never arriving?
Discover if your perfectionism is part of something deeper — what therapist Amy Margolis calls the Anorexic Mindset
Do you hold yourself to impossible standards, work hard, stay busy, and never feel like it's enough? If you're constantly striving for perfection but still feel anxious, burnt out, disconnected from your true self, or as if happiness is just around the corner when you ABC happens, you're not alone.
What you’re experiencing may not just be personality or pressure — it could be the Anorexic Mindset, an internalized belief system that thrives on self-denial, overachievement, and harsh inner criticism. Take this FREE Self-Assessment to discover how the Anorexic Mindset might be impacting you and how you can live with more self-compassion, freedom, and authenticity.
What you’re experiencing may not just be personality or pressure — it could be the Anorexic Mindset, an internalized belief system that thrives on self-denial, overachievement, and harsh inner criticism. Take this FREE Self-Assessment to discover how the Anorexic Mindset might be impacting you and how you can live with more self-compassion, freedom, and authenticity.
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The Anorexic Mindset
Do you... Feel guilty resting? Tie your worth to productivity? Fixate on your appearance?
The Anorexic Mindset is a deeply ingrained pattern of thinking, marked by relentless self-criticism, perfectionism, and a persistent internal voice that measures our worth by our appearance, self-discipline, and achievement. It drives many women to impose rigid rules on themselves around food, exercise, and behavior, creating a cycle of deprivation, shame, and fear.
This mindset goes far beyond eating habits—it shapes how we experience life, relationships, and self-love, often leading to emotional isolation and diminished personal power. At its core, the Anorexic Mindset is fueled by the belief that we must be perfect to be worthy or lovable. Paradoxically, it blocks genuine happiness, freedom, and authenticity.
Recognizing how deeply the Anorexic Mindset is affecting you is the first step toward breaking free. This awareness opens the door to cultivating self-compassion, challenging and changing harmful beliefs and behaviors, and transforming your relationship with yourself and your body into one rooted in self-love and personal power!
This mindset goes far beyond eating habits—it shapes how we experience life, relationships, and self-love, often leading to emotional isolation and diminished personal power. At its core, the Anorexic Mindset is fueled by the belief that we must be perfect to be worthy or lovable. Paradoxically, it blocks genuine happiness, freedom, and authenticity.
Recognizing how deeply the Anorexic Mindset is affecting you is the first step toward breaking free. This awareness opens the door to cultivating self-compassion, challenging and changing harmful beliefs and behaviors, and transforming your relationship with yourself and your body into one rooted in self-love and personal power!
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What you'll learn in the FREE Self-Assessment:
What to expect with the full course:
Featuring 8 insightful modules which include videos, personal stories, psycho-education, exercises, and tools, all on printable worksheets that will cause you to dig deep and identify, challenge, and transform the Anorexic Mindset in your own life!
Understand the
Anorexic Mindset
How does perfectionism, control, comparing yourself to others, deprivation, and emotional withdrawal shape your thoughts and behaviors, often without you even realizing it? And how do these patterns affect your relationships, choices, freedom, happiness and self-worth?
Identify and Challenge the Beliefs That Keep You Stuck
Identify the inner critical voices, distorted thinking, and destructive behaviors that cause you to experience shame, self-denial, and oppression in your life. Then, with guidance and support, start to break free by practicing self-awareness and compassion, taking new actions, and feeling more and more authentic and empowered.
Live into New Ways of
Thinking and Feeling
Through psychoeducation, journaling prompts, and exercises, you will transform your Anorexic Mindset into one that you create based on self-trust, flexibility, and joy. This isn’t about “fixing” yourself — it’s about setting yourself free!
Develop Tools to Continue Cultivating Authenticity and Power
You'll no longer feel the need to chase approval, thinness, control, and perfection. You'll be armed with the self-knowledge, love, and tools to support you to come back time and again and continue to live a life of freedom, authenticity, and power -- a life of your own design.
About Amy Margolis
My name is Amy Margolis. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Co-Founder and Director of Santa Monica Counseling. With years of experience, I specialize in individual, couples, family, and group therapy for people recovering from eating disorders, addictions, anxiety, depression, and relational issues.
My courses are designed to help you identify, challenge, and break free from any negative thinking and behavioral patterns that rob you of living with freedom, authenticity, abundance, and personal power!
My courses are designed to help you identify, challenge, and break free from any negative thinking and behavioral patterns that rob you of living with freedom, authenticity, abundance, and personal power!
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