Books · Angela Sue Garvey

First came the story. Then came the name for it.

I wrote a memoir before I could name what I’d been doing my whole life: self-erasure. The story is here now. The map is on its way.

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Tiny Homes & Tummy Tucks book cover
the one that started everything
The Memoir · Available Now

Tiny Homes & Tummy Tucks

Before there was a framework, there was a story. A girl raised on ’90s purity culture. A first marriage where a pastor told her to be quieter. A book she wrote, and then hid.

Tiny Homes & Tummy Tucks is that story, told the way I actually talk: honest about the painful parts, and funnier than a memoir about disappearing has any right to be. I didn’t have the words “self-erasure” when I wrote it. Reading it now, it’s on every page.

Want to know who I am? Start here.

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And if you’ve read it, a review is basically a love language.

From Readers

Straight from the readers.

I flew through it, constantly nodding my head along to Angela’s stories and observations.

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Dry, sarcastic humor that made me laugh out loud.

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Growing up in the church in the 90’s, I appreciate hearing that my experience wasn’t just mine.

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I read the intro and part of the first chapter and I am hooked. You’re an engaging and insightful writer, Angela!

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Preach it, sister. Your book is sure resonating with me. I’m about halfway and I can’t wait to keep reading.

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You’re a great writer, using dialogue, questions, and humor to engage the reader!

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Up Next

A field guide to self-erasure is on the way.

The memoir is where the story began. The next book is the map: the Self-Erasure framework in your hands, built for the woman who wants to work the pattern, not just recognize it.

Launch date to be announced.

Not sure where to start?

If you want the story, start with the memoir. If you want to know what pattern brought you here, the free quiz takes about 3 minutes and gives it a name.

Angela Sue Garvey, MS, LMFTA · Therapist, writer, founder of Life on Purpose School
The Self-Erasure Quiz

Which pattern taught you
to disappear?

(takes about 3 minutes)
Find My Pattern
before you go —
The Self-Erasure Quiz

Which pattern taught you
to disappear?

(takes about 3 minutes)
Find My Pattern