Judith's secret to Weight Loss and Maintenance

Judith A. Swack • January 8, 2024

Judith is her own client! Here she is before (in 2001) and after ( in 2004) she figured out the secret to weight loss and maintenance.


You can Achieve and Maintain Your Ideal Weight!

Have you struggled with weight all of your life? Do you find dieting and exercising physically, emotionally, and mentally stressful? Have you had your thyroid tested and there is nothing wrong with it? Do you know what works for you and yet … you don’t do it? If you are like me and many of my clients who found self-care to be a burdensome project, you are probably unconsciously (or consciously) caught in a belief system that says, "Neglect Is a Way of Life and It’s All About Neediness."


What is the "Neglect Is a Way of Life" belief system?

A belief system is a large pattern that runs through a family system for generations and also runs through many societies and cultures. The common cultural attitude that "children are to be seen and not heard" is characteristic of families and societies that neglect children’s feelings and needs because they do not consider children to be people. These children conclude that what they want and need does not exist in the universe and fear that "I cannot get what I need to survive." It doesn’t take long for these children to decide that neglect is just a way of life, and they feel chronically and secretly needy.


What do children do in a situation like that? They internalize the family pattern of neglect by neglecting themselves and later their children. They also come to believe that they should not have needs and feel that they are bad for having needs. To deal with the overwhelming feelings of grief, hopelessness, despair, rage, fear, and powerlessness children develop coping strategies such as:


  • Burying the grief and heartache under anger and burying the anger under indifference
  • Making up stories that assume that what you want and need does exist in your family but there is some reason why you are not getting it. Typical stories include,
  • I don’t deserve to get my needs met because I bad or unworthy
  • I don’t know the rules on how to get my needs met.
  • Making excuses for the parents. My parents really could give me what I need if only they weren’t sick, alcoholic, depressed, overwhelmed, abused in childhood, too busy, etc.
  • Becoming compulsively independent and self-sufficient.
  • Settling for what you can get, doing without, or not even bothering to ask for what you need
  • Becoming a control freak
  • Suffering in silence
  • Taking care of everyone else’s needs before your own and feeling guilty about allowing anyone to care for you.



Sadly, during childhood and later on in life, this pattern prevents people from being able to receive love, nurturing, help, and support that is available elsewhere.

Fortunately, I developed a two-three session intervention to heal this entire pattern from the conscious, unconscious, body, and soul levels of a person’s being. Once this pattern was cleared by the Healing from the Body Level Up™ (HBLU™) methodology, I and several of my other clients easily changed eating and exercising habits to successfully lose weight and maintain that weight loss without stress. We also started taking care of ourselves in other areas of our lives that we had previously neglected and got amazing results! In other words, we all felt that it was easy and natural to take care of and nurture ourselves in all areas of our lives. Here are just a few examples.

My Story
Overweight runs in my father’s side of the family, and I have always had to watch my weight. Somehow as I got older the weight slowly crept up on me even though I thought I was watching what I ate and faithfully doing my aerobic exercise. And somehow, I was afraid to weigh myself. When I did weigh myself, I would get depressed and frustrated and react defiantly by eating even more (although who I was defying and how eating more was going to solve my frustration about overweight I don’t really know.) At age 42 I had a baby. During the next year, I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I gained during pregnancy. At age 43 I had a miscarriage and went into early menopause. My doctor put me on the standard hormone replacement therapy, and slowly but surely I gained back the 20 lbs and added another 10 lbs on top of that! I asked my doctor if the hormone replacement therapy was causing me to gain or hold on to weight. My doctor did not think that hormones were the problem and recommended Weight Watchers. Strangely, I felt ravenously hungry all the time. In fact, I would awaken from hunger in the middle of the night and need to drink a glass of skim milk to get back to sleep. After I discovered the "Neglect Is a Way of Life" belief system, I developed a procedure to clear it, and of course I was my first subject. As soon as I was free of this pattern, I decided to see an endocrinologist to check me for hypoglycemia. He confirmed that I was insulin resistant and could develop Type II diabetes like my mother and grandmother before me. I knew I absolutely could not afford to keep the weight on. Three days after the visit to the endocrinologist I refilled my hormone prescription. For the first time ever, I read the pharmacist’s information about this drug. The description warned that people with diabetes must consult their doctors and adjust their insulin levels carefully because this hormone preparation affected insulin release. I always took my hormones at bedtime! That day I switched to taking my hormones in the morning and immediately started sleeping through the night. I switched gynecologists, started natural human hormone therapy, stopped feeling hungry, lost 15 lbs in 4 months and I’m still going strong.


Lori’s Story
Lori always had to watch her weight, but she lost complete control and gained 40 pounds during a nasty dragged-out divorce. She came to me feeling completely burned out and angry about the divorce, and very frustrated about her weight gain. It usually takes two sessions to clear the "Neglect Is a Way of Life" belief system. Two weeks after the first session she reported that she had more energy and hope about the divorce situation and she had also lost two pounds. When I asked her what she had done to lose the weight, she told me that she went to the grocery store, stocked up on fruits and vegetables, and ate those whenever she wanted a snack. After the second session she stopped even wanting to snack, lost interest in chocolate, and four months later she had lost 15 lbs without any seeming effort.


Sally’s Story
Sally was overweight all her life. She had a hundred excuses for why she did not exercise and claimed that she was too busy to pay attention to eating right and dieting according to her nutritionist’s recommendation. After we cleared the "Neglect Is a Way of Life" belief system, Sally started following the diet and found a delightful exercise class that she now attends regularly. Interestingly, she also decided to finish her Master’s degree thesis that she had put on hold for 5 years. She finished the thesis in three months and passed her exam one month before the deadline!


What is Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU™)?
Healing from the Body Level Up™ or HBLU™ for short is an innovative, rapid, and powerful new mind/body/spirit healing methodology that I originated and developed, with the help of many of my teachers, colleagues, and clients. It is a holistic psychotherapy system that heals a person at the conscious level, the unconscious level, the body level and the soul level simultaneously. HBLU&trade puts people in touch with their soul’s deepest wisdom and allows them to work congruently with that wisdom to achieve the results they want in their lives so they can live full, happy and satisfying lives. I am a Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist and a Neuro-linguistic programmer who believes in getting consistent and reproducible results. I developed this healing system by integrating biomedical science, Neuro-linguistic Programming, psychology, applied kinesiology, energy psychology techniques, and spiritual practices with my original research on the structure of complex damage patterns and years of follow-up testing to confirm those results.


Why is HBLU™ so effective?
I believe that the effectiveness of HBLU is due to four factors. The process of asking the client’s deepest wisdom to identify the priority goal and the priority interference pattern, then having the client explain the pattern consciously, and finally locating the negative energy/feelings in the body allows all four levels to focus on and clear the problem simultaneously. I call this aligning the levels. The second factor is a comprehensive menu of damage patterns and knowledge of their structures. The third factor is a comprehensive menu of techniques. My criteria for including therapeutic techniques in my menu is that they be effective, work in minutes, be as painless as possible, and permanently clear the damage at the conscious, unconscious, body, and soul levels. The fourth factor is specificity. By choosing the priority interference pattern from menu A and matching the appropriate intervention from menu B, each session is tailor made for that individual. This is how, using HBLU™, we are able to clear very complex and long-standing issues in a very short time to my own and my clients’ relief.


If you recognize any of these issues and would like to clear them rapidly and thoroughly, please call our office @ 781-444-6940 to schedule a private session. For more information about what other problems HBLU™ is successful at treating call for information.

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By C. C. Life Coach June 24, 2025
Dear Judith, Of all the work we have done, of all the monumental healings and shifts you and your work has helped to facilitate in my life- this piece was the most hidden, the most perverse, the most subconscious- and was driving my life into oblivion. I could not live one more day enslaving myself to my family, being stuck in a loveless abusive marriage. I was exhausted and stuck begging G-d for a way out (any way out). Until you your work and my soul discovered that we needed to unblock my energy fields from using evil to seduce- by running a pathologically self-serving and self-absorbed seduction pattern. Here I was a slave to my family, doing everything, getting nothing- I was the last person self-serving. How did my soul and you even find this. At first I thought no… Until you pointed out that this is what Enneagram 4s do to get love. And it all clicked. This was the seduction. IF I enslave myself, I will get love- so it was all my agenda my mission- I was “doing everything for them” which was the illusion, the seduction I was under- but it was truly a manipulative pattern I ran to try to get love from everyone I could. Only to fail miserably- and to feel even worse. I felt powerless and stuck. Until you said those words…. And through your work- we prayed- and the seduction and illusion vanished. Poof just like that! I can’t believe this has all been me all this time. I WAS DESPERATE TO GET: Love, safety, approval, success & wealth & WORSHIP & WORLD DOMINATION What I learned was that I created a pattern of need. Everyone had to need me- I had to do it all- so people would love me. Because deep inside I doubted they could just love me for me. And that I truly don’t have to do anything for love. And neither does anyone… & that I just give it up and teach my family to be self-sufficient so they DONT NEED me and we can establish love for the sake of love. OR SCREW UP MY WHOLE FAMILY AND LIFE PERPETRATING EVIL BY BEING PATHOLOGICALLY SELFISH. Here are my learnings: I’m just another cog in the wheel and that’s ok. We all are working together. No one better or worse. There is no need to dominate just to do each of our missions. I was seduced into thinking I was so selfless and altruistic because I was working for what I thought “was everyone else’s good” but was really still what I thought- and my agenda I have been self-abusing all this time, putting myself last so I could get sympathy and love. I was acting like a victim and poor me to myself & failing because I got no sympathy gratitude or love… When we interviewed my husband - I sat still. It was the first time I could listen to him and learn. I was still - like air. Without an agenda. & It’s the first time I feel still. And my nervous system relaxed. The first time I’m not working to get something in every action. Today I put my agenda down. It feels so light and relaxing and freeing It’s all been one big undercover operation to get love shrouded in a mission to do for others so no one would ever find me out. That it was all about me. And it didn’t make sense until you said I was pathologically selfish and self-absorbed. Me? No!!!… oh my gosh yes…. And the shell around me shattered. I can relax and just be me for the first time in decades…. You and your work- Judith- I’m just in disbelief- after being in disbelief many times- you’ve changed my life. Thank you Thank you Thank you. You’re a true genius Judith. I can never thank you enough. You are my teacher my mentor and I’m so grateful to have been given you to guide me in this life. I only hope to help your work reach millions. All the Best! C. C. Life Coach
By Copyright 2025 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. January 31, 2025
James ’s brother, Samuel , sustained severe traumatic brain injury from a car accident. He spent the year going to many doctors for treatment, but could barely function. Samuel complained that not only did standard medical care not help him, but the doctors ignored and mistreated him. Whenever James suggested any complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or HBLU, Samuel immediately came up with excuses as to why going for that kind of treatment was impossible. (Notice that he didn’t claim that that kind of treatment wouldn’t work. He just made it impossible to get there.) James said, “Even though I feel really guilty about it, I’ve stopped trying to help him because he makes everything impossible.” Monica ’s 25-year-old son, Ed , suffers from such severe debilitating Crohn’s disease that he couldn’t finish high school, can’t work, can’t leave the house, and can barely leave his room. Traditional medical care and medication is not helping. Monica and her husband bought him a dog thinking that would cheer him up, but Ed does not interact with it. Monica has suggested and made appointments for many complementary therapies such as nutrition, naturopathy, family therapy, and HBLU, but Ed refuses to go to these appointments. Monica experiences guilt and deep sorrow that her son is so ill, and she and her husband haven’t been able to help him. Valerie ’s partner, Nancy , is 200 pounds overweight, suffers from ADD and severe anxiety, and hates her job. Nancy had been on medication for the ADD and anxiety, but when her psychiatrist retired, never attempted to find another provider and let her medication lapse. When Valerie suggested that Nancy find new doctors and get back on medication to help her mental function and treatment for overweight, Nancy refused to make any follow-up phone calls or emails. Although they had gotten engaged in the Spring, by Fall, Valerie had asked for the ring back. Valerie said, “I don’t think I can live with her if she refuses to take care of herself and won’t let me help her.” What do James, Monica, and Valerie all have in common? They feel deep sorrow, guilt, and frustration that they can’t help someone they care about deeply. But the people who are suffering are also trapped in a pattern that continues to cause them suffering. Both the impotent helpers and the perpetual sufferers are trapped in a seducer strategy called, “I’m impossible.” What is a Seduction Pattern? Seduction patterns are some of the most energy draining, perverse, and frustrating patterns a person can experience. People with seduction patterns get tricked into doing things they don’t want to do. They are unable to leave bad relationships, jobs, family, or other upsetting situations.
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By S.C. LICSW November 20, 2024
It’s that time again, where I get to shout out another amazing woman. Dr. Judith Swack has changed my life! In fact she has changed our family’s life. I found her in summer of 2023 . There was so much unhealed shit and my body was paying for it. I am 46 years old, and I have been in therapy on and off since I was 13. I’ve had some lovely therapists. I’m also a therapist myself. And I can honestly, wholeheartedly say, NOTHING has ever helped with lasting changes as much as Judith. She’s one of the smartest women I’ve ever met - she’s a neuroscientist + an energy healer. And the work she does - what we do in session - cannot even really explain it. It’s weird as f*ck. And it works!! In the past little over a year, I have managed to change a couple of behaviors I have not been able to change in 20 years. no exaggeration, and not for lack of trying. One of my 11 year old sons was paralyzed by fear of spiders - had a phobia, happened to be with me one day when I had an appointment and was going to wait in the waiting room, she said he could come in even though she doesn’t work with kids. I kid you not, she fixed that sh*t. In one session. He still doesn’t like spiders, but he isn’t frozen in fear anymore - he can get a tissue and pick it up and move on. This is unbelievable. And remember last week when I Saturday spotlighted my financial coach and how my husband’s feeling lonely in that part of our marriage is now getting resolved? Well, before I reached out to my financial coach to begin with, my husband and I had a joint session with Dr. Swack, where she helped heal a piece of our relationship which we’ve been stuck, going in circles for years! That clearing gave me the energy and thought to reach out for financial coaching to begin with… And if you need any convincing that this is the person for healing from trauma, I invite you to reach out and speak with my husband himself…. I % believe in all this energy healing etc, but he is a very logical, rational, no bullshit guy. He doesn’t do therapy. Talk therapy never worked for him, and he thinks it’s a complete waste. And I couldn’t explain this to him - how this is different or what it is. Nor did I try. I didn’t even ever suggest he should go… But when he saw our son get cured of the arachnophobia, and our son is very similar to him, no bullshit, rational, logical, and he said it worked, and we saw it worked he decided to try it… He decided to give it sessions… I think to prove to both of us it was all bullshit. He came home from the first session livid. But decided he would go back. He also came back from the second session angry, and told me all about how he yelled at Dr. Swack and told her it was bullshit… AND how she didn’t give a f*ck what he thought …”it doesn’t matter if you believe it or think it’s bullshit, I’m not talking to your rational mind, I’m talking to your subconscious” she’s told him numerous times… And suffice to say, he’s been about 9x now, and he too, is operating fundamentally differently. Our marriage is operating fundamentally differently. Traumas and patterns we have both carried and acted upon for years seem to be being dissolved. It’s really wild. If you are seeking a trauma healer or healing for anything, I can’t recommend Dr. Swack higher. I once asked Dr. Swack how to explain what she does to people, and she said “tell them I work with your subconscious”. I don’t think that really explains it fully… or maybe it does… either way it’s amazing. S.C. LICSW
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