LAKEPORT – Feeling frazzled? Have you lost your smile? Do you find yourself waiting for the next shoe to drop? Sick and tired?

Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center invites you to join them for the next session of their stress reduction and relaxation clinic.

During this eight-week intensive, participants learn how to create new patterns of response to stress, and how to move from being highly reactive to life events to learning how to respond with calmness.

In the small group classroom environment, participants gain support and learn from each other and the curriculum.

Participants will take a health risk assessment and general wellness inventory to assess their current state of mental, emotional and physical well-being. Through the use of diaphragmatic breathing, progressive relaxation, mindful meditation, gentle movement yoga and other strategies, participants will learn how to consciously and healthily cope with life stress.

The program begins Tuesday, April 7. The group will meet from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. twice a week for eight weeks. The program is taught by wellness educator Leslie Lovejoy, Ph.D.

Dr. Lovejoy has provided this program for the past five years at the Wellness Center. The program was highlighted as a best practice in the Sutter Health television program “For Your Health” in 2006.

According to Dr. Lovejoy, “Stress is always a part of our lives and therefore unavoidable, but we can change both how we perceive it and respond to it. In making that change we take back our lives and can regain the richness and joy of living.”

If you want to change your life for the better, this is the class for you!

 

There is a fee for this program. Scholarships are available. Pre-registration is required by April 3.

To register or for more information, call the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center, 707-262-5171, e-mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit us at www.sutterlakeside.org.

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