created it," Baker said. But the body needs both spiritual and physical maintenance. "The damage done to your body has an effect on the soul."

Too many women hurt their bodies, she said in an interview, by giving away sex lightly, smoking cigarettes, abusing alcohol or taking drugs, both illegal and pharmaceutical.

She struggled with many of those things herself, she said, while she was leading a hard-charging corporate life as a manager in a large insurance company Downstate. She had "kicked God out of my life," she said, and had tried to numb the pain of a divorce by working harder. "I had everything on the outside, but inside, I had no hope."  "I damaged my body," she told the women at the Spiritual Spa. "I . . . wasted a lot of time and energy trying to make