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Each journey through lifestyle medicine is unique. Some people may only need help in a few areas, while others may need a lot of support. These classes are open to anyone in the community hoping to make lifestyle changes. You may choose to take just one, a few, or a lot of these classes; whatever works best for you!
By visiting this page, you've already taken the first step in improving your quality of life. We look forward to seeing you soon!
A la Carte Lifestyle Medicine Classes
Developing a healthy lifestyle is different for everyone. So, St. Luke's developed a collection of classes that touch on all aspects of lifestyle medicine. Please review the options and register for the classes that best meet your unique needs.
Nutrition
- Introduction to Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating - Learn the science behind a plant-based diet and how it can prevent and even reverse disease.
- Plant Based Cook-Along - Learn how to prepare whole food, plant-based recipes in real time with a registered dietitian.
Stress Management
- Emotional Wellness Class - Coming soon.
Improved Sleep
- Insomnia Education - Explore how insomnia develops, persists over time and is treated with cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). Learn how you can adapt strategies from CBT-I to manage insomnia on your own.
Positive Relationships
- Emotional Wellness Class - Coming soon.
Lifestyle Medicine for Specific Conditions
These courses are highly targeted and specific. Dig deeper into lifestyle medicine and help get chronic conditions under control.
Recommended Classes
- Eat Well to Live Well with Chronic Kidney Disease - Learn about the kidneys, potential complications of kidney disease and the importance of implementing evidence-based dietary recommendations to improve your kidney health.
- Prevent and Reverse Diabetes - Learn about the underlying causes of pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes as well as the lifestyle factors that contribute
to insulin resistance. Explore the science behind plant-based eating and understand the three essential elements to reducing insulin resistance, which can help you maintain a better blood sugar level. - Empowered Relief™: Pain Management Workshop - Learn about the relationship between pain, stress and physical tension as well as how to develop a personalized pain management program. These skills will help you decrease stress and physical tension, develop adaptive thinking patterns and build a personalized self-soothing action plan for pain.
- Introduction to Gestational Diabetes - In this class you will learn why it is important to manage sugars through pregnancy, recommended eating patterns to help control blood sugars and goals for blood sugar management.
