Rachel Leviss Tried a ‘Mormon Church’ After Looking to Men for ‘Answers’ ArticlePure

Rachel Leviss is getting spiritual. 

In the latest episode of her podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue, the Vanderpump Rules alum discussed her time in rehab, which she entered for “mental health and trauma therapy,” and opened up about incorporating spirituality into her life, which included trying out a Mormon church.

“One of the things that I discovered very early on once I checked myself into The Meadows [rehab facility] was this spirituality component that they were bringing into the therapy model,” Leviss, 29, explained. 

Before entering rehab in California, she confessed that she “didn’t have a relationship with my higher power” and that she “was putting men in that position of my higher power, and I would look to them for answers.”

The former pageant queen continued: “That is how I got so lost in my codependency. So right off the bat, I was like, OK, spirituality, interesting.”

The reality star, who is still healing after the “Scandoval” drama involving ex Tom Sandoval, added that a chaplain helped her spiritual journey. 

“Since then, I have been integrating that spirituality into my everyday life, going to church on Sundays,” she said. “I tried a Mormon church. My friend took me to a Mormon church.”

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Leviss went on to describe why spirituality is important to her.

“I have found a spiritual community out here now, and it just makes a world of a difference because these people are looking to something bigger than themselves,” she said.

Amid this discovery, Leviss recently revealed she’d like to go by the nickname “Rocky” instead of “Raquel” to leave her past identity behind.

“It’s just funny and cute to me,” she explained in a previous podcast episode, adding that she introduced herself to someone at the Lightning in a Bottle festival “Rocky Rocky Bang Bang.”

“The name Raquel came out of a place where I felt like I wasn’t worthy and I wanted to be something that I wasn’t,” Leviss continued. “So it came out of a place of insecurity. I was trying to overcome a lot of social anxiety and trying to conform myself into who I thought other people wanted me to be.”

Leviss also used the name “Rocky” as a kid when she played volleyball.

“You can say whatever you want about me. I like nicknames, and I like connecting to the different parts within me,” she emphasized. “And it doesn’t mean I have a whole new identity or anything. It just means that I’m an integrated human being.”