A Catholic Approach to Weight Loss
Your Body Isn't Broken — It's Been Speaking All Along
Discover the God-designed intelligence behind your weight, your hormones, and your healing. Learn to listen, respond, and reclaim the vibrant health you were created for.
What We Know to Be True
- Your symptoms are signals, not failures
- God designed your body with an extraordinary capacity to heal
- Holiness and physical health are deeply connected
- Science and faith work together, not against each other
- There is profound hope for your health journey
The Shift That Changes Everything
What If Your Weight Loss Struggle Is What Gets You to Learn How to Support Your Body Like Never Before?
For too many women, weight loss has felt like a war — against their cravings, their bodies, their willpower. But what if the struggle itself is a message?
Your hormones, your gut, your liver — they are speaking. Storing fat, signaling exhaustion, spiking blood sugar — these aren't signs of weakness or lack of discipline. They are your body's way of asking for help.
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own; for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
1 Corinthians 6:19–20 · RSVCECaring for the temple God gave you is an act of worship. And in this workshop, we'll show you exactly how to do it — with wisdom, grace, and real science behind every step.
Stubborn Weight
Often points to hormonal imbalance, insulin resistance, or a liver that's working overtime — not a character flaw.
Cravings & Food Noise
The relentless mental chatter around food is a physiological and spiritual signal that can be quieted with the right tools.
Fatigue & Brain Fog
Your drainage pathways and hormone systems are deeply connected — when one is blocked, everything else suffers.
Emotional Eating
The connection between spirit, soul, and body is real. Emotional eating is often a spiritual hunger pointing to a deeper need.
There Is a Better Way
Working With Your Body, Not Against It
The wellness industry has profited from your frustration for decades. Restrictive diets, punishing programs, and shame-based messaging have left millions of women more exhausted and more confused than before.
This workshop is built on a completely different premise: God created your body to heal. When we partner with that design — through nourishment, faith, and aligned living — transformation becomes not only possible, but natural.
Understand the Root
Discover what's really driving weight gain — from hormone and blood sugar imbalance to liver and lymphatic load.
Renew Your Mind
Break free from food noise, scarcity mindset, and the exhausting cycle of dieting through faith-based transformation.
Walk in Wholeness
Integrate body, soul, and spirit — because growing in holiness and growing in health are not separate journeys.
Workshop Sessions
Expert-Led Sessions Designed for Real Women
Our panel of presenters brings clinical expertise, lived experience, and deep faith together to give you a complete picture of your health.
Monday, April 13 · 12–1:30 PM EST
The Letter I Wish I Could Send My Past Self
Presenter: Liv Harrison
A powerful personal account of the weight loss journey — the wrong turns, the breakthroughs, and the hard-won wisdom Liv would give to a younger version of herself standing where you might be standing today.
Tuesday, April 14 · 12–1:30 PM EST
Food Noise: Why You're Thinking About Food All Day—and the Missing Piece to Lasting Weight Loss
Presenter: Denise Jelinek
In this workshop, Catholic health and weight loss coach Denise Jelinek explains what "food noise" really is — the constant thoughts about food that can dominate your mind and make peaceful eating feel impossible. Denise shares her own experience of struggling with food noise 85–90% of the day, and how learning a new approach helped those thoughts completely quiet so she could live peacefully with food again. She reveals why food noise develops, why it is not your fault, and why it is often the hidden reason women struggle to get to and maintain their healthy weight. When food noise quiets, lasting weight loss becomes possible — not through more restriction or willpower, but through a new relationship with food, yourself, and God.
Wednesday, April 15 · 12–1:30 PM EST
What Your Labs Aren't Telling You — and What to Actually Ask Your Doctor
Presenter: Laura Ducote
Your labs come back "normal" — but you still don't feel well. Laura breaks down what conventional ranges miss and how to walk into your next appointment as an informed, empowered advocate for your own health.
- Insulin resistance, thyroid function & optimal (not just "normal") testing
- Conventional lab ranges vs. functional optimal ranges
- Cycling lab ranges read alongside cycle charting
- The connection between cortisol, blood sugar, thyroid, and weight loss
- How to evaluate whether GLP-1s belong in your story
Thursday, April 16 · 12–1:30 PM EST
Hormones, Blood Sugar, & the Body's Hidden Blueprint
Presenter: Rita Johnson
Unravel the cascade of hormonal signals that drive weight gain — and how balancing blood sugar, supporting liver health, and clearing drainage pathways creates the conditions for natural, lasting fat loss.
- Hormone and blood sugar balance
- Functional lab testing
- Why your workouts might be working against your weight loss — and what to do instead
- Detoxing as a foundation for weight loss — why clearing the body's drainage pathways has to come first
All Sessions
The Lived Theology of the Body — Woven Throughout
Running through every session is the conviction that spiritual growth and physical healing are not separate journeys. The Church's teaching on the body as sacred is not abstract theology — it is the most practical health framework you've never been given.
Each Session
Live Q&A — Your Questions Answered in Real Time
Every session includes dedicated Q&A time so you can get real answers to your most pressing questions — in a safe, faith-filled community of women on the same journey.
Everything That's Included
All Sessions Recorded
Can't make it live? No problem. Every session is recorded so you can watch on your own schedule, without missing a thing.
Lifetime Access
Return to any session whenever you need a refresher. The teachings are yours to keep — revisit Laura's lab session before your next doctor visit, or rewatch whenever it's most useful.
Private Group Chat
Join a community of Catholic women on the same journey. Ask questions, share wins, find encouragement, and keep the conversation going long after the workshop ends.
Meet Your Presenters
Monday, April 13
Liv Harrison
Liv shares her personal weight loss journey — the struggles, the turning points, and what she wishes someone had told her when she was in the thick of it. Her session is the kind of honest, hopeful conversation that reminds you you're not alone and that real change is possible.
Tuesday, April 14
Denise Jelinek
Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit
Denise is a Catholic convert, wife, and mother, and the founder of Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit. Through her work, she teaches The Surrendered Method — a Catholic approach that helps women surrender their food and weight struggles to God so they can experience lasting freedom, peace, and trust in every season of life.
Wednesday, April 15
Laura Ducote, FNP
Family Nurse Practitioner · NaProTechnology & FEMM
Laura is a wife and mother of four who has spent over a decade providing a restorative, whole-person approach to women's healthcare. Trained in Creighton Model FertilityCare, NaProTechnology, and FEMM, she sees adolescent and adult women for hormonal balance, PCOS, thyroid disease, irregular cycles, infertility, postpartum care, and peri/menopausal changes. She is passionate about practicing medicine that integrates mind, body, and soul — inviting the Divine Physician into every step of the process.
Thursday, April 16
Rita Johnson, NTP, RWS
Hormone & Functional Wellness Expert
Rita is passionate about helping women balance their hormones and heal their guts. After her own struggle with secondary infertility — rooted in years of poor gut health and a Candida infection — she went on her own healing journey. Now more energized than she ever thought possible, she loves helping other women live more fully alive.
The Foundation of This Workshop
Growing in Holiness Is Growing in Health
This isn't a workshop that bolts faith onto the end as an afterthought. The conviction that God designed your body to heal — and that spiritual and physical wholeness are intertwined — is the foundation everything else is built on.
When we pursue holiness, we're not just growing closer to God. We are actively cooperating with the design He wove into every cell of our bodies. Rest, nourishment, freedom from anxiety, gratitude — these are not soft additions to a wellness plan. They are medicine.
Your Body Is a Temple
Caring for your health is not vanity — it is stewardship and worship. You were given something sacred to tend.
God Designed You to Heal
Healing is not exceptional — it's the default. Our role is to remove the barriers and cooperate with His design.
Surrender Is Strength
Releasing the obsession, the control, and the shame around food is a spiritual act — and it opens the door to freedom.
You Are Not Beyond Hope
No matter how long the struggle or how many times you've tried — transformation is available for you, today.
"Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul."
3 John 1:2 · RSVCEIs This for You?
This Workshop Was Made for Women Who Are Tired of Fighting Their Own Bodies
If you've tried the diets, done the research, maybe even had some success — but you're still searching for something that addresses the whole picture, body and soul — this is for you.
- You've lost weight before but can't seem to make it stick
- You suspect your hormones are involved but don't know where to start
- You're exhausted by the constant chatter around food in your mind
- You want a weight loss approach that honors your faith, not ignores it
- You want to understand your lab results and talk to your doctor with confidence
- You feel like your body is working against you — and you want to change that
- You long for a community of women who understand both the physical and spiritual dimensions of health
- You believe God has more for you — and you're ready to receive it
Secure Your Spot
You Were Made for Wholeness — Let's Walk There Together
This workshop is for women who are ready to stop fighting their bodies and start partnering with the God who designed them. Expert voices, real answers, deep community, and the hope you've been looking for.
Health & Hormones Workshop
Women's Wellness Event · Limited Seats Available
The Schedule · 12–1:30 PM EST Daily
- Mon · Apr 13 Liv Harrison — Her Weight Loss Journey
- Tue · Apr 14 Denise Jelinek — Silencing Food Noise
- Wed · Apr 15 Laura Ducote — What Your Labs Aren't Telling You
- Thu · Apr 16 Rita Johnson — Hormones, Blood Sugar, & Drainage
- Each session runs 12–1:30 PM EST with live Q&A included
- All 4 sessions are recorded — watch live or on your own time
- Lifetime access to all recordings, revisit anytime
- Private group chat to connect, ask questions, and keep the conversation going
- Theology of the Body woven throughout every session