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Wellness Library
with Lifestyle Medicine Staff, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Visit our Wellness Library in the Social Hub at Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick!
Our Library consists of some well-connected topics, including but not limited to:
- Nutrition & Healthy Eating Cookbooks
- Therapies
- Dementia
- Parkinson's
- Child/Teen health
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Stress
Our books are available for reading or check-out whenever we have a volunteer staffing the Social Hub.
MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick, 329 Maine Street, Brunswick
207-373-6585
Cardiac Support Group
with Cate Parker MS, RN, DipACLM, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
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 207-373-6360.
Food is Medicine
with Meghan Perham, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Food is Medicine MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital
MaineHealth is offering a FREE 15-week program to help people improve their health with nutritious food and lifestyle changes. Eating healthy foods can help with conditions like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. Your journey toward better health can start today!
Who can join? This free program is for people who:
- Are age 18+
- Have a chronic health condition (like type 2 diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol or high blood pressure)
- Have limited access to affordable, healthy food
- Want to make healthy lifestyle changes
What you can expect
- Weekly bags of healthy food and accompanying recipes from MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick
- Connect with and support others in your community
- Resources to help manage your health conditions
For More Information:
- call: 207-373-4513
- email: midcoastchi@mainehealth.org
- visit: https://mainehealth.org/fimbrunswick
A collaboration between MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick and the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program.
Walk with a Doc
with Estelle Krestos RN, BSN, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Take a STEP toward better HEALTH
Walking is low impact, and safe with a doctor's okay, for people with orthopedic ailments, heart conditions, and those who are more than 20% overweight. Walking for as little as 30 minutes a day has many benefits, including:
- Reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, Type 2 diabetes, and breast and colon cancer
- Maintaining body weight and lowering risk of obesity
- Enhancing mental well-being
Join our physicians and health care providers for a walk and talk and become informed and inspired on the journey to improving your health.
To learn more and sign the waiver prior to your first walk, visit https://walkwithadoc.org/join-a-walk/locations/brunswick-me/
Registration is not required but is helpful.
2026 Walks to begin the week of May 4:
- Mondays 1:00 to 1:30 - Jessica Faraci, MD / Parkview
- Tuesdays 12:15 to 12:45 - Tim Howe, MD / Topsham
- Wednesdays 12:30 to 1:00 - Jeff Maher, MD / Station Ave
- Thursdays 12:30 to 1:00 - Elaina Malais, FNP / Parkview
- Fridays 12:15 to 12:45 Nicole Kelly, FNP / Parkview
Running Start Track at Bowdoin
with Running Start Exercise Physiologists, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Running Start is a co-ed exercise program for all age groups that incorporates the proper technique of warm-up, stretching, calisthenics, and aerobic exercise tailored to your personal needs. The classes allow everyone to increase or maintain their fitness level in their own way. A clinical exercise physiologist facilitates this program.
Medical Release from a physician and Waiver of Liability are required prior to participation.
Regular physical activity improves your cardiovascular system, muscle tone, and flexibility, as well as reduces the risk of heart disease, the number one killer of adults in the United States. If you increase your physical activity level, you will improve your quality of life. You'll look better, feel better, and have more energy to enjoy your leisure time.
Running Start Swim at Bowdoin
with Running Start Exercise Physiologists, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Running Start Swim is a co-ed exercise program for all age groups with shallow-end aerobics and lane swimming. A clinical exercise physiologist facilitates this program.
Medical Release from a physician and Waiver of Liability are required prior to participation.
Regular physical activity improves your cardiovascular system, muscle tone, and flexibility, as well as reduces the risk of heart disease, the number one killer of adults in the United States. If you increase your physical activity level, you will improve your quality of life. You'll look better, feel better, and have more energy to enjoy your leisure time.
Running Start Medical Gym at Parkview
with Running Start Exercise Physiologists, MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick
Supervised medical exercise consisting of an initial fitness assessment and progressive resistance training, flexibility exercises, and a cardiovascular program.
A clinical exercise physiologist facilitates this program. Classes are $40 per month per person and meet Tuesdays and Thursdays in either a morning or afternoon time slot.
Registration is required and is by the month.
* Please DO NOT register prior to completing your Intake and being assigned a class time.
* Medical Release from a physician and Waiver of Liability are required prior to participation. Once your Medical Release has been received, an exercise physiologist will contact you to schedule an Intake Appointment.
Please call 207-373-6585 for more information or to request required forms.
MidCoast Mamas
with Erin Kirkpatrick, Mid Coast Maternity
Please join our postpartum support group to find the village you deserve! You will get to meet other new moms and find out that many of the struggles you may be experiencing are common and you are not alone. You will also get good ideas for coping. We vent, we celebrate, we cry, we encourage, we drink coffee and eat snacks! You can weigh your baby here and ask any questions at all to another mother or a nurse.
The group meets every Wednesday morning at 10:30am at MidCoast Hospital. Sometimes we meet in Conference Room 1, right next to the cafeteria. If that room is not available, our back up location is the waiting room outside the Maternity unit. The group is led by our breast/bottle feeding specialists. Mothers with children 0-6 months are welcome.
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