Healing Emotional Eating Without Shame

🧠 Restore your true hunger. ❤️ Renew your heart. 🔥 Transform your life.

Feb. 18 - April 2, 2026 | A Lenten Journey with St. Hildegard

You don’t have a willpower problem. You have an appetite that’s been asked to do too much.

This work is about healing emotional eating without shame, restriction, or food obsession, using the wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen, modern functional health science, and a deeply Catholic understanding of the human person.

We will not fight hunger. We will learn to listen to it. We will recognize that appetite is not a flaw but information. And when appetite is understood, order returns. When order returns, peace follows.

When eating is about more than food, control will never be the answer. Emotional eating is not a failure of discipline but a sign of fatigue in the body, the nervous system, and the soul. Drawing from Hildegard’s vision of viriditas (the greening power of life - vitality) and modern research on stress, appetite, and regulation, this work restores harmony at the table not through rules, but through truth. No diets. No moralizing food. No shame disguised as “discipline.” Just clarity, warmth, and right order so eating becomes nourishment again, not anesthesia.

This approach integrates:

• functional health science (stress, appetite, metabolism),

• psychological insight (emotional regulation, attachment),

• and Hildegard’s medieval understanding of virtue, balance, and order

Battle for vitality

For 35 days, we’ll dive into the real battle—between virtue and vice, renewal and decay, divine order and chaos. You’ll receive:
📺 5 live 45 min sessions with teaching, Q and A and prayer
🧠 Nervous system regulation rooted in both modern neuroscience and ancient Christian wisdom.
🙏 WhatsApp Community Group for daily support

If you suffer from a debilitating chronic disease, contact me to see if and what kind of fast is good for you.

What you get:

• FOUR Bi-weekly 1/2 hour long Q and A and PRAYER on Saturdays at 9 am PST - 9:30 am: March 8, 22, 29, April 12

• Daily 5 min video in your email , ending in 3h content) to help you break free from mental & spiritual clutter with an explanation on Hildegard’s take about vices and virtues teachings (considered early psychotherapy) and connections to neuroscientific discoveries about physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health

• 18 hours of video teachings and instructions

  • Discover Hildegard course - 4 videos

  • Hildegard’s Fast course - 2 videos

  • Heart Healing - Emotional and Mental Healing - 2 videos

  • Neuroscience to the Rescue of Your Soul - 1 video

  • Fasting Theology and Practice in the Church video - 1 video

  • Dr. Hertzka (main propagator of Hildegard’s sciences in 20th century) - 1 video

  • Lectio Divina course - 4 videos

  • Liturgy of the Hours course - 1 video

• Audio-visual meditations with Hildegard’s vision on Trinity and vision on Crucifixion and the Church - Eucharistic Healing from her first visionary book Scivias - Know the Ways

• Metanoia booklet - A Mindset Shift for the Kingdom and Eternal Life with Mind to Body and Body to Mind practices for the healing and renewal of your mind, brain and nervous system. Releasing emotional build up and effects of trauma, grief, loss, sinful addictions. Applying ancient wisdom of the Desert Fathers.

• Stations of the Cross booklet (first time in English) prayed daily by Dr. Hertzka, medical doctor who translated all Hildegard’s works, re-discovered, and brought Hildegard’s lifestyle and remedies with success into his practice, training many other doctors and practitioners in 20th century - will be sent on the First Friday of Lent

• Recipes 50 pages digital booklet with fasting rules, recipes and remedies

• Fasting Journal digital booklet

• Lectio Divina Journal digital booklet

• Seven Sorrows and Joys of St. Joseph booklet - Lectio Divina as Novena will correspond with Ember Days plant-based Liquid Fast March 11-15. Daily live prayer sessions with Lectio and prayer for healing will be held March 10 - 18 at 6pm PST leading to March 19 Feast of St. Joseph

BONUS:

Ember Days Plant-Based Liquid Fast - March 11-15 (with 2 prep days on march 9 and 10 and optional detoxifying remedy for 4-6 weeks)

This fast is optional and has two versions: complete liquid and liquid with some pureed veggies. Hildegard considered this fast second best healing remedy. Most people can undertake this fast but you need to consult with your medical professional if you have any chronic diseases or health issues.

Maybe you’ve heard about fasting mimicking diet where you consume plant-based liquids and very limited foods (10% of usual daily intake of calories) mainly in form of broths for 5 days and reap the harvest of cellular cleansing in your body and clarity of mind. Hildegard knew all about it 800 years ago and proposed 5-10 day long liquid fasts based on spelt & veggies broth, spelt coffee, herbs, spices and herbal fusions and teas. The fast has to be combined with movement, stretching, walking, and mostly, prayer, in a communal setting which we will provide online in a form of nine daily 30 min at 6pm PST live meetups for Lectio Divina based on Seven Sorrows and Joys of St. Joseph and prayer for healing, starting on March 10 and ending on March 18.

Quarterly celebrated Ember Days are perfect for liquid plant-based diet and Hildegard would advise everyone to fast this way minimum twice a year.

Instructor: Iwona Bednarz-Major

For some time now I was interested in holistic healing and cures integrating the natural and the supernatural. Having experience in anesthesiology and intensive care nursing and years of ministry especially focused on worship, healing, deliverance and transformation of the whole person, I am interested in deepening my understanding of modern medicine that is investigating previous centuries’ natural medicinal advances and is not afraid to reach to the wisdom of the saints instructed supernaturally by God on how to bring healing. I believe there are ways of healing that are waiting to be discovered and integrated into the current knowledge. I also believe that some of the old ways of healing have been forgotten and need to be reintegrated into the medical and health fields.

In March 2023 I passed an exam in St. Hildegard’s von Bingen Studium. Academic Theological Course and became “Second Degree Specialist in the St. Hildegard’s Sciences” issued by the Papal Faculty of Theology in Wroclaw where I studied theology before becoming a full-time missionary and having a family. I am continuing the studies this year to become Third (and final) Degree Specialist in the St. Hildegard’s Sciences focusing on the full application of Hildegard’s sciences about man, universe, and God including learning the diagnostic system for the spiritual and physical human condition and on harmonious integration of spirituality with a lifestyle that cures, heals and brings a human being closer to God. That’s 300+ hours of official lectures, studies plus additional personal countless days of praying, reading, studying, making meals, remedies etc. to gain experience.

Having an experience introducing Hildegards' mystical experiences, her prophetic and healing gifts, her natural medicine skills and knowledge, her apostolic fearlessness, her breakthrough in worship, music and arts, her leadership skills and dedication to building a community in my Lectio Divina and School of the Heart Courses that I have created for Stone to Flesh, in the past years I have now gained new knowledge from many experienced practitioners specializing in her sciences: theologians (biblical and dogmatic theologians), philosophers (medievalists, anthropologists), clergy (Benedictine spirituality and new evangelization focus, an exorcist and religious including St. Hildegards’ relics custodian Benedictine nun, musicians, medical doctors (family doctor, gynecologist, therapist, physiotherapist, pharmacologist), and from the oldest Hildegards’ health food and ingredients producer.

I am very eager to start sharing all insights I have gained and start practicing St. Hildegard’s lifestyle with other enthusiasts of her holistic health, well-being, and Benedictine spirituality.

Value and price:

Value: $599

Price: $149 per person = $3.33 per day (15% off for SOTH, FLOW, Hildegard Workshop alumni; 25% off for former registered Hildegard Fast participants)

THIS IS EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION ONLY AND IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION, OR FOR A PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP. ALWAYS SEEK PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE IF YOU WANT TO EMBARK ON A FAST.