Lifestyle Medicine

Sessions available in: English, Dutch

What?

Lifestyle encompasses every aspect of the way we live our lives, going from the way we breathe, what we eat, how (often) we exercise, to stress management, work-life balance, and social connection.

Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat a wide range of chronic conditions. These prescriptive lifestyle changes are meant to treat, and when used intensively, often even reverse such conditions. Applying the 9 pillars of lifestyle medicine also provides effective prevention for these conditions.

9 Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine

  • Breathwork

  • Water intake

  • Restorative Sleep

  • Nutrition

  • Avoidance of Harmful Substances

  • Physical Exercise & Stretching

  • Stress Reduction & Emotional Balance

  • Social Connection

  • Purpose

What to expect?

  • Exploring your expectations, identifying your needs

  • Identifying your sources of stress and your sources of strength

  • Mapping out your current lifestyle habits and setting realistic goals for improvement to direct our sessions

  • Discovering the mind-body connection and its implications (how to work with it, instead of against it)

  • Exploring a wide range of mind-body techniques to discover which ones suit you best

  • Small steps with a focus on automatization of new conscious habits

  • Setting up a sustainable healthy lifestyle, so you can continue your journey even long after you have finished your sessions

For whom?

These sessions are for you if:

  • You are struggling with chronic conditions and looking at how lifestyle changes can improve your health and wellbeing

  • You want to adopt a healthy lifestyle to prevent developing chronic conditions later in life

  • You are interested in the connection between body and mind and want to learn more

  • You want to discover new ways to manage and diminish stress

  • You want to tap into the self-healing capacities of the body

  • You are suffering from one of the conditions below, for which Lifestyle Medicine and/or Mind-Body Medicine have been scientifically proven to be helpful

Lifestyle Medicine can improve your treatment outcomes for a range wide range of chronic conditions* including, but not limited to:

Cardiovascular diseases - Type 2 diabetes - Obesity - Chronic pain - Depression - Anxiety - Fatigue

 Mind-Body Medicine can improve your treatment outcomes for a wide range of stress-related illnesses**:

Addiction - ADHD - Anorexia - Anxiety - Arrhythmia - Asthma - Autoimmune disorders - Cancer - Chronic pain/fibromyalgia - Crohn’s disease - Cardiovascular disease - Depression - Diabetes - Fatigue - GERD - Hair loss - Hives - Hot flashes - Hypertension - IBD - IBS - Impotence/low libido - Infertility - Insomnia - Jaw pain/TMJ - Memory loss - Migraines Multiple sclerosis - Neuropathy - Nausea - Obesity - Palpitations - Panic - Parkinson’s - Psoriasis - PTSD/TBI - Seizures - Stuttering - Tinnitus

*American College of Lifestyle Medicine
**Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine @ Massachusetts General Hospital

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