Hope Stanger is a ther­a­pist, nutri­tion­al coun­selor and moti­va­tion­al speak­er in prac­tice for 20 years. In her per­son­al jour­ney of weight loss, she went from weigh­ing 220 pounds to los­ing over eighty pounds. A grad­u­ate of the Insti­tute for Inte­gra­tive Nutri­tion, Hope found­ed Ther­a­py Beyond Walls; heal­ing trau­ma, rela­tion­ships and eat­ing dis­or­ders. She helps her clients trans­form their rela­tion­ship with their food, body and weight into a pos­i­tive and pas­sion-filled one. Hope lives by the water in Stam­ford, CT.