About
Overview
What you'll achieve
- Understand how the nervous system and mind-body connection work — and why this matters for your long-term health
- Know the current evidence linking chronic physiological activation to illness and disease, and what lifestyle medicine says about reversing it
- Have identified your own personal patterns, triggers, and habitual responses
- Understand how lifestyle factors — movement, sleep, nutrition, recovery — affect immune and inflammatory health, based on current research
- Have tested and chosen at least three mind-body techniques that work specifically for you
- Have a written, personalized wellbeing plan you can use independently after the program ends
Who this is for
- Participants who want to understand what is actually happening in their body — not just manage symptoms
- Anyone with an interest in the science behind wellbeing, not just the lifestyle trends
- People curious about immune function, autoimmune conditions, or chronic inflammation who want to understand the lifestyle medicine research
What's included
- 5 live group sessions, 50 minutes each, every Wednesday from September 16 to October 14 (noon EST / 6:00 pm CET)
- Recordings of all 5 group sessions, available to watch or re-watch anytime
- Weekly practice prompts — short, practical exercises to try between sessions (no grading, no submission required)
- Your personalized written wellbeing plan, built progressively across the program
- Session 5 (October 14): live guest talk and Q&A with Dr. Nicoletta Carlo-Stella, MD, PhD — Rheumatologist, specialist in immune function
- Session 6 (October 21): personal 1:1 closing session with Dr. Lisa Catanzaro, PhD — personalized wellbeing plan and leave with individual next
- Access to Dr. Lisa Catanzaro, PhD for questions between sessions
Structure
1. Session 1
The Scientific Foundations: Mind-Body Connection
The stress response in plain language, the nervous system, the HPA axis, cortisol — explained accessibly. How acute and chronic physiological activation differ and why it matters for long-term health.
2. Session 2
Wellbeing, Disease Prevention & the Individual
The research link between chronic activation, illness, and disease. Individual differences in how we experience and respond to pressure. Guided self-assessment of your own wellbeing baseline and patterns.
3. Session 3
Life Situation & Perception Interventions
Practical tools for changing how you experience difficult situations — intrapersonal tools (locus of control, selective awareness, gratitude), interpersonal tools (communication, boundaries, support), and perception tools (cognitive reframing, meaning-making).
Prices
Available packages
MENTAL WELLBEING & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE 6 sessions
6 sessions · 6 weeks
549 USD
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FAQs
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