Evidence-Based Wisdom Meets Spiritual Depth

Health is not purely a secular concern. This course bridges modern lifestyle medicine with centuries of Catholic teaching, showing that whole-person wellness—body, mind, and soul—has always been central to the Christian tradition. You'll discover how saints saw health as a resource for living with intention and purpose.

Six Pillars, Many Saints, One Holistic Life

From St. Hildegard's wisdom on nutrition to St. John Paul II's embrace of movement as prayer, each module pairs evidence-based guidance with the lived example of saints who understood that caring for your body is an act of love toward God. Meet saints who model sustainable moderation, and saints who struggled honestly and were sanctified anyway.

Transform How You Think About Your Health

Learn to see eating well, moving your body, resting deeply, and managing stress as expressions of Catholic anthropology—honoring the truth that you, as a unified whole, are worth caring for.  Every lesson closes with something concrete to implement — including a complete Examen-based practice for integrating all six pillars into ongoing life.

Wisdom of the saints on living a life that supports health

Across eight lessons — each paired with a short video and companion reading — you'll discover how figures like St. Hildegard of Bingen, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and St. Monica addressed the same challenges you face today: what to eat, how to move, how to rest, how to manage worry, how to relate to substances, and how to stay connected to others, to creation, and to God. This is a course grounded equally in current health research and centuries of Catholic wisdom on what it means to care for the whole person.

About the instructor

Michele Suhie, PhD, NBC-HWC, DipACLM Michele is the Director of Health Education at MyCatholicDoctor Academy and a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional. She is an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University and coordinates the Sunday music ministry at her parish. Michele invites you to explore the six pillars of lifestyle medicine through a lens rarely offered alongside modern health science: the lived witness of Catholic saints.

What You'll Learn

8 Chapters · 8 Lessons

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      The Role of Saints in Wellness

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      Sustainable eating practices

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      Movement as Prayer and Service

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      Saints and Rest as a Spiritual Practice

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      Stress Management and Saintly Trust

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      Honoring the body as a Temple

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      Relationships: others, creation and God

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      Keeping the flame of Veriditas alive

Discover how ancient wisdom and modern science are lighting the same path forward.

Stop separating your faith from your wellness. See how Catholic saints can guide you toward a life of integrated, grace-filled health. Your body, mind, and soul are worth caring for—together.

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