What does the program entail?

• 8 weeks of intensive engagement.

• 1x weekly customized educational webinars covering an array of stress management and nutrition topics relevant to heart disease management and lifestyle changes.

• Access to a team that understands your needs, traumas, and connection to your race, culture, and ethnicity and how this is important to healing our bodies. 

• Three sessions with our Nutritionist and personal trainer to:

• Identify and work through food triggers and addictions 

• Identify nutrient gaps contributing to your high blood pressure

• Learn how being fully nourished can help you lose weight

• Learn healthy versions of cultural dishes 

• Identify and work through food struggles or confusion

• Biweekly check-ins with a licensed therapist to: 

• Identify and understand stressors that could be impacting your blood pressure

• Gain an understanding of why past and current traumas prevent us from calming down and can raise our blood pressure. 

• Improve emotional wellbeing through understanding the importance of emotions 

• Learn how stress happens in our body and through our nervous system

• 1:1 work with therapist to reduce stress in nervous system 

• Learn specific nervous system exercises that will help reduce stress and lower blood pressure over time.

You will also receive: 

• A blood pressure monitor

• Access to the Oben app to track your blood pressure 

• Text-based communication with the health coach for accountability, and support

• Weekly lecture series

• Private Facebook group with other participants for peer support

• Access to a library of content related to exercise, nutrition, and local resources

• A progress report of blood pressure both midway and upon program completion