Lifestyle First
The Lifestyle First programme uses health coaching and lifestyle medicine to work with School Communities to develop health and wellbeing.
Your health and the health of your community is the most important thing your posses. In the modern world it is easy for us to feel disconnected with this fact and to be distracted by competing narratives about the route to happiness and contentment.
Lifestyle First can transform your wellbeing by bringing your environment into alignment with your evolutionary biology. Your body knows how to keep you healthy – it just needs the right support!
When you commit to a health first approach you can expect to see your students, staff and parents thrive leading to….
- Attendance
- Resilience
- Behaviour
- Attainment
- Relationships
- Energy and concentration
- Confidence
- Anxiety
- EBSA
- Time spent firefighting
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle medicine is rapidly growing branch of medicine that is evidenced-based and person centered. It brings together the commonsense approach that has been missing in modern management of chronic health.
Lifestyle medicine is both preventative and a treatment for most of the mental and physical health conditions of our modern times.
Lifestyle Medicine is a regulated branch of medicine set up by the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM) and focuses on the 6 key pillars of; healthy eating, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy relationships, sleep and minimizing harmful substances. When these are in ‘balance’ in your life then your body’s systems can start to auto correct and function at their optimum leading to you feeling at your best.
Lifestyle Medicine is increasingly being integrated into NHS practice and has been set up and is regulated by the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
‘Lifestyle Medicine is evidence-based, clinical care that supports behaviour change through person-centered techniques to improve mental wellbeing, social connection, healthy eating, physical activity, sleep and minimisation of harmful substances and behaviours.’
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Health = Wholeness
We can’t be healthy on our own – we need connection to our community, nature and something bigger than ourselves, but…
Our Environment Has Changed…