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 You can't coach someone somewhere you've never been?
The foundation program for health professionals ready to coach the non-diet approach from the inside out.
Groundwork is a 12-month lived experience. You don't study the Beyond The Food Method here. You live it.
Founding cohort. Maximum 20 women. April 2026..
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THERE IS A WAY FORWARD
You Already Know the Problem. Now You Need the Map
Groundwork gives you the lived experience to coach non-diet from the inside out. Here's what shifts:
- You stop freezing in sessions and start coaching with clarity and confidence.
- You understand the belief underneath the behavior, not just the behavior itself.
- You coach from self-trust, safety, and a felt sense of enough because you've lived it
- You see the feminist and intersectional forces shaping your clients' relationship with food and you know how to hold that.
- You become the practitioner your clients cannot find anywhere else
It's not about learning more. It's about embodying it
Groundwork is where the methodology becomes yours from the inside out, over 12 months, with the person who built it guiding you.
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In the next 12 months, you could...…
- Trust your instincts & your body
- Finally understand why you do what you do and help others do the same
- Feel safe in your body and enough exactly as you are
- Show up in your life as the woman you always knew you could be
- Coach with confidence without reaching for a script
The inner work and the professional work are the same work. Groundwork is where both begin.Â
INTRODUCING
GROUNDWORK
This is where you stop theorizing about weight neutral health and start living it.Â
Groundwork is a 12-month experience.
In the first 3 months — The Intensive: you work with Stephanie as your coach. Weekly. Live. In a group of 20 women maximum. Moving through 6 layers of lived inquiry —Gentle nutrition, the psychology and physiology of eating, weight-neutral health, the thought-feeling-behavior connection, the self-coaching framework and the feminist, intersectional conditioning that shaped all of it.
Then for 9 months — The Integration: the methodology becomes yours. Monthly sessions with Stephanie help you attune to the nuance of what you experience as you are practicing and implementing. Until it stops being something you learned and becomes something you embody.
- 12 weekly live group coaching calls with Stephanie The Intensive
- 9 monthly live group sessions with Stephanie The Integration
- 2 private 1-1 coaching sessions with Stephanie Weeks 4 to 6 and weeks 10 to 12
- Private Community and recordings Yours for all 12 months
So that when you coach, it comes from the inside out. Not from notes. From having lived it.
What's Included In Groundwork...
LAYERÂ 1
The It's Beyond The Food Method
This is where it begins. You see the full picture of how you got here. The framework, the values, the roadmap. Not as theory but as your own story how health behavior actually works at the thought, belief, and emotional level, and how yours was shaped long before you made a single conscious choice about food. including:
- See the story that brought you here through a new lens
- Understand how health behavior actually works at the root level
- Learn to assess your own patterns with new eyes
You leave this layer with a roadmap. And the beginning of a completely different way of seeing yourself in it.
LAYER 2
Gentle Nutrition
This is where reinvent how you think and apply nutrition. Not as a concept you agree with intellectually. As something you actually live. You move through your own relationship with nutrition the rules you absorbed, the hierarchy you still carry, the fear that still shows up around certain foods and experience what it feels like to eat from trust instead of control.
- Learn a 4-step framework for coaching nutrition through an intuitive eating lens
- Experience nutrition beyond macros, plans, and good and bad food
- Unlearn the archaic way to think about nutrition
You leave this layer having experienced gentle nutrition from the inside. So you can coach it from there too.
LAYERÂ 3
The Psychology of Eating
This is the layer most health professionals have never been not only taught or taken through themselves. You go beneath the behavior to what is actually driving it. Your own beliefs around food and weight. The emotions that get routed through eating because there is nowhere else for them to go. The rebellious eating patterns and how to alter them. The social conditioning, feminist and intersectional, that shaped all of it before you were old enough to question it.
- Unpack your own eating behavior at the belief, thought, and emotional level
- See how social conditioning shaped your relationship with food and your body
- Build coaching tools to work with every layer, not just the surface
You leave this layer able to see what is underneath the eating behavior. In yourself first. Then in your clients.
LAYERÂ 4
The Physiology of Eating
This is where you come back to your body. After years of overriding hunger cues, ignoring fullness signals, and eating from a plan instead of from the inside, you practice something different. You reconnect with your body's own signals. Hunger. Fullness. Satisfaction. Sensory feedback. This is where body trust stops being a concept and starts becoming a felt reality.
- Reconnect with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction as real signals you can trust
- Experience what it means to eat from the inside out instead of from a plan
- Build the somatic awareness to guide clients back to their own body wisdom
ou leave this layer knowing what it feels like to trust your body. That knowing is what you bring into the room with your clients.
LAYER 5
Weight Neutral Health
This is where you get everything you need to hold the health conversation without centering weight. Set point theory. Natural weight. Social determinants of health. Weight inclusive care. The language to answer "but what about health?" question with clarity and confidence. And how to apporach health coaching from the lense of weight neutral health approach.
- Understand set point theory, natural weight, and weight inclusive care fully
- Get the language & tool to answer health concerns without ever centering weight
- See the systemic forces behind weight centric health and how to coach beyond them
You’ll finish this course with a retirement plan and a road map to get there.
LAYER 6
The Self-Coaching Framework
The layer that makes everything else stick. You learn a self-coaching framework rooted in cognitive behavioral tools that you use on yourself every day to coach yourself into health promoting behaviors, and with clients starting now. You practice moving from a thought that keeps you stuck to a belief that sets you free. We close The Intensive with next steps and a clear picture of where you go from here.:
- Build a self-coaching practice you use on yourself daily
- Learn the cognitive behavioral model that drives lasting behavior change
- Leave The Intensive with clarity on your next step in this work
You leave this layer with the methodology in your hands. And The Integration ahead of you to make it fully yours.
Groundwork Is For You If...
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You walked away from diet culture and haven't found your footing since
- You had your own intuitive eating transformation and want a professional framework to match it
- You're certified and ready to integrate a non-diet, weight-neutral approach into your practice
- You are ready to do the personal work alongside the professional development
- You are willing to be vulnerable, practice, and show up to be seen
- You want to look at the systemic, feminist, and intersectional forces that shaped your relationship with food, your body, and your worthÂ
Groundwork is not for you if...
You are looking for a quick fix. This is a 12-month commitment to doing the work from the inside out.
You want to absorb knowledge without applying it to yourself. You will be asked to practice what you are learning on yourself, in real time.
You are looking for a business building or marketing strategy program. That lives inside the Non-Diet Coaching Certification.
You are already coaching confidently in a fully weight-neutral framework. The Certification is your next right step.
NICE TO MEET YOU
I'm Stephanie Dodier
Non-Diet Nutritionist · Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor · Cognitive Behavioral Coach
I didn't arrive at this work through a textbook. I arrived through 25 years of living inside diet culture believing what it told me about my body, my worth, my hunger. Following every rule. Trusting every expert except myself.
What I built coming out the other side is the It's Beyond The Food Method. The only weight-neutral health framework that integrates cognitive behavioral coaching, feminist theory, and intersectional analysis into a single coherent approach to food, body, and behavior change. It doesn't exist in any standard training. It was built from the outside in against the mainstream, not from it.
Over the last 8 years I have worked with over a thousand women across 92 countries, trained hundreds of health professionals, hosted a podcast for 9 years with over 1.4 million downloads, and built two multiple six-figure non-diet coaching businesses.
Groundwork is where you experience this methodology from the inside. So that when you bring it to your clients, it comes from you.
From The Beyond The Food Community
"This has honestly been the most eye-opening experience, and it’s just shown me how much capacity I actually have for myself.”
-Â Dalia Juma
"This new world that I’ve come into has changed everything on how I relate to myself, my body and food. It’s elevated to a level that just feels like I’m a better person."
- Leanne Johnston
"My knowledge base and confidence working with clients has grown because of the high quality non-diet education Stephanie has provided. Â I know that the things I am teaching are changing lives, and that feels amazing!."
- Susan Smith
Why this work matters more right now than it ever has
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The health and coaching industry is changing faster than most professionals realize.
AI can now replicate any curriculum-based training. It can summarize the research, explain the ten principles of intuitive eating, outline the framework, and answer the most frequently asked superficial questions. Standard information delivery the foundation of most online health coaching is being automated.
What AI cannot do is sit with a woman in her body. It cannot hold the complexity of someone who intellectually understands intuitive eating but cannot stop bingeing at night. It cannot see the belief underneath the behavior, name the pattern she cannot see herself, or know from experience what question to ask next.
That requires a practitioner who has done this work herself. Who has lived the methodology, not just learned it. Who coaches from the inside out from embodied knowing, not from notes.
The health professionals who will thrive in the next decade are the ones building that kind of practice now. Not more information. The capacity to be present with another human being to hold their hand through complexity, address what lives underneath the emotion, and navigate the counterculture work of helping someone trust herself in a world still telling her not to. The nuance. The depth. The parts of this work that have never been — and will never be — automated.
That is what Groundwork builds.
Not just for your clients. For you.
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Join the Founding Cohort
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Groundwork opens for the first time in April 2026. This founding cohort is intentionally small. Maximum 20 women. When it's full, it's full. Enrollment closes April 12th or sooner.
$1,200 — Waitlist members only March 23 to 24 .
$1,500 — Founding member price. March 24 to April 12.
$2,000 — Full price. All future cohorts.
The path to Certification
Your full Groundwork investment applies as a $1,000 credit toward the Non-Diet Coaching Certification.
Groundwork is where the inner work begins. The Certification is where the professional practice is built. Many women do both in that order. The credit makes that path financially straightforward.
Questions before enrolling? Email us at info@stephaniedodier.com
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I'm a dietitian / therapist / fitness professional. Is this the right fit?
Unlearn.
Trust yourself.
Coach with confidence.
Groundwork opens in April 2026. Maximum 20 women. Founding member pricing closes April 12 or when the cohort is full whichever comes first.
This is where the work begins. From the inside out.
Yes. I'm ready. Enroll as a Founding Member