Hi! Have you ever been through a challenge in life and later thought, Jeez, I wish I got the memo! Me too, a bazillion times! So often I felt alone, crazy, and lost. Then I would dig my way out, do the research, find support, and figure it out. And guess what? I always came out the other side more confident, stronger, and wiser. And things always turned out okay, and many times, even great! 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. I've noticed through my deep female friendships, and decades of work as a therapist, that women of every shape and size struggle with deprivation thinking, (which is very much like Anorexic thinking). Thinking that robs them of fullness in their lives because of what they have, what they do, but mostly what they 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 and on! Here's the Memo! is my love letter to all women. It contains personal stories, professional theories, and exercises (with a sprinkling of spirituality and four-letter words;) that will help women everywhere successfully shift all of this BS, navigate the many chapters of their lives, and live with more self-love, freedom, happiness, and personal power! Finally, while I am a mental health professional, all of the Memos herein have been born out of my own challenges and lived experience as a vulnerable human being. I am the guinea pig, so I know they work!

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