Lifestyle Program - Healthy Habits Workshop

Presented by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health - Edmonds

Join us for a group online course to help understand your habits and improve overall health.

Improve your health by better understanding your habits. Join us for a Lifestyle Habits Workshop series where we will help you:

Assess your lifestyle and understand how to shift your mindset
Learn how habits can play an important role in life
Develop an individualized plan to help you achieve your goals

Workshop details

This is a 6 week online course.

The first three classes are an introduction to Habits and Growth Mindset.

The second three classes are focus sessions that you can choose from:

Healthy eating – Sessions focus specifically on how eating habits are unique, what makes them challenging, including emotional eating, how to notice our patterns, make changes in the unhealthy patterns, and celebrate our healthy patterns and successes.
Exercise habits – Sessions focus on the 3 pillars of habit (context, reward, and repetition). Planning our exercise habits with focus on those 3 pillars helps us make a plan for the long term. And one that is fun!
Healthy emotional habits – There are specific skils and practices that we can focus on to help improve the quality of our emotional lives. They encourage stress management, cognitive practices, cultivating healthy emotional responses, self-awareness, and relationship skills. We all benefit from focusing on these habits, which play a major role in our happiness and quality of life.
Smoking cessation – Sessions make use of the research on habits, to help a person who desires to quit smoking succeed. It's a difficult habit, but there is research and steps that make this process more successful.

Workshop leaders

Susan Thomason, MD

Dr. Thomason has believed that lifestyle habits are one of the most important factors in all of our health. She is excited to start the course that has been years in the planning! She specializes in family medicine and enjoys her patients of all ages.

She is especially excited by how much all of our lives can be changed by how we live, both physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This course is the outcome of many years of conversations with patients, attending lots of lectures, and reading research. She loves the model of breaking down our patterns into habits, and how that simplifies the otherwise overwhelming task of "changing our lifestyle." Learn more.

Adrienne Rohde, ARNP

Adrienne has a lifetime personal interest in healthy habits and started wanting to expand this to others with her start in community health nursing. Over the years her career developed in family practice where preventive care and total wellness has always been a priority. She is certified in obesity medicine and weight management. This course was born out of a passion for helping patients approach themselves with compassion, feel empowered, and make sustainable small changes that will improve the quality of their lives. She believes in the daily work of wellness and that we all can make improvements in how we care for ourselves. Learn more.

Kelley Green, LICSW

Kelley understands how emotional wellness can improve our quality of life and overall health. Everyone deserves to feel good, do the things they enjoy, and spend time with the people they love – and Kelley is passionate about helping people achieve this. Her goal is to help patients restore their ability to enjoy life again.

Kelley has really enjoyed the opportunity to partner with Sue Thomason, MD, and Adrienne Rohde, ARNP, to offer a holistic course that addresses multiple aspects of wellness. She is excited to help patients embrace the lifestyle habits that will help them cope with stress, promote happiness, and create healthy relationships. Learn more.

How do I register?

A referral is required to attend the 6-week online course. Insurance will be billed.

Ask your primary care provider for a referral to our Healthy Habits course.
Include the specific reason you are interested (to help them understand which diagnosis code would be appropriate)
Your primary care provider will send a message to our team
You will get a call from one of our schedulers.

If you’re interested in signing up, please contact your primary care provider or call 425-775-9474.