Women's Psychology Archives - Body Prema by Stella Stathi

My Journey back into my Body

by Stella Stathi | Dec 11, 2019 | Body Image, Body Love, Chakras, Embodiment, Self-Development, Women's Psychology

My journey back into my body started about 13 years ago. In late 2006, I was halfway through my bachelor’s degree in Psychology and deep in my struggle with an eating disorder. I spent my days counting calories and compulsively exercising. I loved moving my body -I...

My Lineage

by Stella Stathi | Dec 7, 2019 | Alchemy, Body Image, Chakras, Eating Psychology, Embodiment, Women's Psychology

I really love that we are collectively talking more about our lineages and giving credit to the traditions and people we have learnt from and have been influenced by.Just a few years ago, there used to be a very strong emphasis on proving that we were doing something...

Food & Body-Image Difficulties are an Initiation

by Stella Stathi | Nov 28, 2019 | Body Image, Body Love, Dieting, Eating Psychology, Food & Weight, Self-Development, Women's Psychology

I N I T I A T I O N Our lives are full of initiations. Life is an ongoing initiation in itself. There are doors waiting to be opened and walked through, leading into new spaces we haven’t experienced before -and that can feel scary. We don’t know where we’re going and...

Τhe Nature and Essence of this Work

by Stella Stathi | Nov 11, 2019 | Alchemy, Body Image, Chakras, Eating Psychology, Embodiment, Food & Weight, Women's Psychology

Today I’d like to share more about my approach, both for those of you that are new here, and for those who have been following my work for a while. In my practice, I bring together a number of elements from different traditions and modalities, so it hasn’t...

On the Alchemical Process of Dissolution

by Stella Stathi | Nov 4, 2019 | Alchemy, Embodiment, Self-Development, Women's Psychology

D i s s o l u t i o n…is the stage in alchemy in which a solid substance turns into liquid.At a psyche/soul level, it is the process of letting those parts of ourselves that have served their purpose and now cause more harm than good be released, “melt”,...

The Project/Problem Body Culture -and how it is holding us back from Food & Body Freedom

by Stella Stathi | Oct 10, 2019 | Body Image, Body Love, Dieting, Eating Psychology, Embodiment, Food & Weight, Women's Psychology

I recently took a great workshop with Kelly Diels called ‘naming your thing’ for people whose work is a combination of different elements, approaches and traditions. During the workshop, we got to identify, among other things, the “Villain” of our work; the greater...