Spiritual Body to Making Peace with Food and Body Two questions that keep coming back from new members in our community:  What does it mean to Go Beyond The Food?  And then...   Why would I need to Go Beyond The Food?  These are GOOD questions and to be honest, a very good starting point for us to have a  very powerful conversation.   To answer these 2 questions, we must first recognize that for most of us, women, we’ve been trained since a young age via Diet Culture to seek a diet solution to our “food issues, weight and body” within the constraints of our physical body. The solution being to a-beat our body into shape and b-restrict our food. Ultimately, we’ve been deeply trained to believe that getting a thinner physical body would bring us health and happiness.  Yet it doesn’t work. We know that and hence why you and  I  are  here...   Why doesn’t it work? Because our relationship to food and body doesn’t stem only from our physical body. Our desire to eat and shame ourselves originate from our mind, emotions, and spirit.  That’s what I’ve found through my own struggle and later on what my training and education have taught me. The 4 layers of the human being are what we address in the Going Beyond The Food Method. It stems from a very old body of works in Holistic health.  Today’s episode will deep dive into the spiritual body with Dr. Louise Swartswalter and its impact on the way we engage with food and body.   In show 177, we spoke about the mental body with Christina Hylan.   Upcoming in show 179, will talk about the physical body and show 180, will discuss emotional body. Finally, show 181 will talk about a unique aspect of human that has a tremendous impact our why we urge to eat or self-destruct via body shaming: our nervous system. In this episode I discuss The Spiritual Body to making peace with food and body How the spiritual body shows up in our day to day life What is energy medicine? How to begin to heal our spiritual body Last episode was an insightful interview with Christina Hyland as she talks about the Mental body and its impact on the way we engage with food and out body. She talks about the reason why individuals develop eating disorder or problem and the process on how to come back to ourselves from our false selves through the 'feel to heal' approach. You don't wanna miss this episode in this series. Click here! Leave me a review, if you enjoy the show and would love to encourage and support my work, leave me an honest review using this link, click here. For a podcaster like me, reviews are like a fuel... and I would appreciate hearing from you more than I could possibly say!  Here's a quick tutorial on How to leave a review.      Links mentioned in the episode Dr. Louise Swartswalter's website Mind Gems, 12 little exercises that balance the brain- soul!  Brain Soul Success Bootcamp FREE webinar- The Five Secrets to a Beautiful Amazing YOU!   Take the Self-assessment to evaluate your relationship to food and weight Free Audio Training  Crave Cure Guide Essay on religion and the Going Beyond The Food Method   Submit a question for the next episode If you want to submit a question for Stephanie's next episode, click here and join our free and private community.   Reach Stephanie  Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Email ***For your information - some links above may be my affiliate links, which means I get a small commission if you click on it and make a purchase. Doing so is no additional cost to you, but helps me tremendously. Your support is SO greatly appreciated, so thank you in advance if you choose to do so***