Rewire Your Weight with Rachel Foy
Sep 18, 2026 · 29 min · 14 segments
In this episode, Rachel Foy explores how childhood belief systems can shape our relationship with food long after we’ve stopped consciously believing in them. Drawing on her experience growing up…
I think the minute that you mention religion, particularly online, people can have this very strong opinion about it, and I get that.
But before I get into this topic, I just want to make it really clear that this is not a conversation actually whatsoever about religion.
You know, it's not about whether you should or shouldn't, whether it's good, bad, whatever.
And if your faith is important to you and it brings something positive to your life, then that's absolutely great.
This is purely me looking back at my own experience and just wondering how some of the things that I learned growing up may have influenced my own relationship with food without me ever realising that there was a connection.
And I've also become more interested in this because religion has come up quite a few times in client conversations, even recently, but certainly over the years, including several that I'm working with at the moment.
And sometimes we'll be talking about their relationship with food and then suddenly something about their religious upbringing will come into that conversation and it might be something that they learn about being good or guilt self-control um putting other people first or what they were taught about their own bodies and i've worked with plenty of women who went to catholic schools and who were taught by nuns as well um and sometimes you start pulling a one thread around food and you end up somewhere that on the surface seems to have absolutely nothing to do with eating and And surprisingly often does.
I think the minute that you mention religion, particularly online, people can have this very strong opinion about it, and I get that.
But before I get into this topic, I just want to make it really clear that this is not a conversation actually whatsoever about religion.
You know, it's not about whether you should or shouldn't, whether it's good, bad, whatever.
And if your faith is important to you and it brings something positive to your life, then that's absolutely great.
This is purely me looking back at my own experience and just wondering how some of the things that I learned growing up may have influenced my own relationship with food without me ever realising that there was a connection.
And I've also become more interested in this because religion has come up quite a few times in client conversations, even recently, but certainly over the years, including several that I'm working with at the moment.
And sometimes we'll be talking about their relationship with food and then suddenly something about their religious upbringing will come into that conversation and it might be something that they learn about being good or guilt self-control um putting other people first or what they were taught about their own bodies and i've worked with plenty of women who went to catholic schools and who were taught by nuns as well um and sometimes you start pulling a one thread around food and you end up somewhere that on the surface seems to have absolutely nothing to do with eating and And surprisingly often does.
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