The Life Center for Essential Wellness

Cardiac Wellness, formerly known as Cardiac Rehab, is a secondary prevention program that educates people about reducing the risk of future cardiac events through exercise, nutrition, and heart healthy information.

Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. There is a lot a person can do to help prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease through risk factor modification such as exercise, weight loss, controlling high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking cessation and relaxation.

The "Life Center" is trying to help reduce the risk of heart disease in our community and offers the Heartwise Screening.

The Life Center offers Congestive Heart Failure education classes by appoiintment. The goal of this class is to provide empowering knowledge and to create balance in your life. There are many lifesyle changes that can reduce complications and potentially reduce hospital readmissions.

A self-referred program in which an employee can meet with an Exercise Physiologist. Together you will design an exercise program specific to your needs through:

• Cardiorespiratory Endurance
• Muscular Fitness
• Flexibility

COST: $25 per hour

Open to all employees.

Heart of a Woman Progam Video

Knowledge about heart disease, stroke and the effects of diabetes on the heart, can help people take action to prevent or reduce the complications from these diseases . Starting in February, the Life Center offers community education classes on these topics.

The Purpose of Post Partum Exercise is to establish a baseline exercise program for post partum mothers to help them achieve pre-pregnancy physical fitness through:

HOW'S YOUR BREATHING?

• Are you having trouble breathing?
• Do you find yourself short of breath walking to the mailbox?
• Is your breathing more difficult when you get hurried or rushed?
• When you bend, stoop or need to carry an object, does breathing become difficult?
• Are you staying at home more because it's to hard to get ready to go out?
• Do you want information and techniques to improve your breathing?

WHAT IS PULMONARY WELLNESS?

In collaboration with Whidbey General Hospital Foundation, we offer a four-part series of classes for Tobacco Cessation. Topics covered are:

• Tobacco and Addiction
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Medications
• Health Effects of Tobacco Use
• Tools to Stop Smoking and for Quitting Tobacco Use
• Exercise
• Food
• Stress
• Relapse Prevention

When you attend all four classes, we offer a voucher for a free box of nicotine replacement patches.

These classes are FREE.

The instructor is a certified tobacco treatment specialist.

The Whidbey Wellness program is designed to improve wellness in individuals who have experienced difficulty losing weight and achieving wellness. Participants will learn realistic and useful strategies to modify your lifestyle that will help you change your way of thinking about diet and exercise.

• Participants must have a Body Mass Index > 25.
• Participants agreee to avoid diets such as Atkins, Dr. Phil, South Beach, Slim Fast, Prism, etc.
• Participants agree to avoid diet supplements and appetite suppressants.
• Participants agree to commit to 150 minutes of additional exercise each week.

16 Sessions (Two times a week for 8 weeks)
Each Session Includes