Come together to share the story of your parenting journey and receive support and inspiration from other new parents.

Discussion topics include sleep, feeding, nurturing yourself, and relationship changes. This group is flexible to address your own needs and concerns. This group is facilitated by a childbirth educator who is also a trained doula and breastfeeding counselor.

This group meets in person in Falmouth

This group meets every Thursday morning from 10am - 12pm. Please register here for more information and location. 

Join anytime throughout the year. New members are always welcome!

This free peer support group is a great opportunity to meet other new breastfeeding parents in your community, share experiences, and receive postpartum and newborn care information and support. A lactation consultant facilitates the group and can answer your questions.

Please register here to receive information for this weekly group which meets on Tuesdays 9:30am - 11:30am in Falmouth. 

Please register for more information and location details.

Join anytime throughout the year. New members are always welcome!

This group is intended for patients who have experienced heart problems.

Caregivers are welcome.

What to expect:

· Social connection and support

· Ongoing contact with health professionals

· Keep updated on latest recommendations

· Explore elements of Lifestyle medicine

· Represent the needs of other heart patients

2nd Tuesday each month, 1:30-2:30 pm, at Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehab, 329 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

Participants do not need to have been a part of cardiac rehab to join in this group.

For more information, please call 373-6360.

What is the "Restorative Sleep" Lifestyle Medicine Pillar?

Improving sleep quality can improve attention span, mood, and insulin resistance, and can resude hunger, sluggishness, and more.

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick is working with other departments to create opportunities in this area.

Please call 207-373-6585 for more information.

MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick provides healthy food at no cost to patients and community members.

Our goal is to be an extra source for healthy foods for you and your family. Food is shared in a safe space set up like a small grocery store.

• Hours: Monday & Wednesday 10 am - 2 pm, and by appointment
• Call 207-373-4513 or email midcoastchi@mainehealth.org to schedule an appointment

Additional opportunities available through the MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick:

• Food Is Medicine
• Living Well with Chronic Illness
• Cooking Matters

MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick, 329 Main Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

For more information please call 207-373-4513 or email midcoastchi@mainehealth.org to schedule an appointment.

What are "Arts of Wellness"?

The Arts of Wellness uses multiple forms of the arts - visual, musical, theatrical, literary, or movement-based - to support wellness across physical, emotional, and social dimensions.

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick currently has opportunities to use visual art and dance to improve wellness and we are working toward adding programs using other arts as well. Current opportunities include:

• Health in Motion
• Neurographic Art
• Intuitive Painting
• Collage Workshop

Please call 207-373-6585 for more information. If you can't find what you're looking for, ask!

What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Lifestyle Medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to prevent and treat chronic conditions. These conditions include, but are not limited to, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

Grounded in evidence-based practice, lifestyle medicine takes a whole-person, prescriptive approach that expands the scope of preventive care by addressing the root causes of illness through sustainable behavior change. Its foundation rests on six core pillars: whole-food, plant-predominant diet, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connections.

• Optimal nutrition - focus on eating more plant predominant whole foods
• Physical activity - engage in regular and consistent physical activity
• Stress management - develop healthy coping skills
• Restorative sleep - allow for 7-9 hours of quality sleep every night
• Connectedness - foster and support relationships that bring meaning and purpose to life
• Avoid risky substances - avoid consumption or exposure to harmful substances

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick offers numerous opportunities in many of these six pillars. 

We welcome you to explore our currently offered classes and events on this site! 

Please call 207-373-6585 with questions or for more information. If you don't see something you're looking for, just ask!

All about the "Avoidance of Risky Substances" Lifestyle Medicine Pillar!

Substantial research shows that tobacco use and drinking too much alcohol increases the risk of many chronic diseases and death.

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick offers programs to help with substance use.

• Well-coaching
• Wellness Consultation
• Tobacco Treatment Coaching

Call 207-373-6585 for more information. Don't see what you're looking for? Ask!