meet in person and receive mailed letters every two weeks.
The Sartoria Health and Wellbeing Program is a community-based experience designed to support whole-person wellness through structured habits, reflection, healthful practices, nourishment, and meaningful social connection.
This is a guided, active journey of learning and reflection—designed to support lasting rhythms for daily life.
Participants move step-by-step through a process that builds awareness, introduces practical tools, and supports sustainable change in a way that is both grounded and deeply personal.
How the Program Works…
Participants take part in a 12-week experience that combines:
In-person group sessions
Weekly or bi-weekly formats available.
Thoughtfully prepared mailed material…
to support practices and for habit tracking at home.
Simple, structured habit-building…
to help you stay on track and feel supported throughout the journey.
Each week builds on the last—
layering change rather than overwhelming it.
A Whole-Person Approach
Integrating your entire being through the Nine Pillars of Wellbeing, within which is embedded the more clinical Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine.
Nourishment
The nutrients and the process of preparing food, viewing seed selection, the method of growing, all the way to how food is prepared and eaten in a holistic way, nurturing physical, emotional, and mental well-being for complete soil to table health.
Stress Management
The process of identifying stressors and tools that work for you to cope with, reduce, change, or adapting by implementing healthy habits to prevent burnout and improve overall well-being.
Exposure to Nature
Whether a Green Space or a Blue Space, interaction with natural environments or nature that may provide enhanced mental and physical health and promotes wellbeing.
Physical Activity
All movement that requires energy, including leisure-time activities such as swimming and gardening, cleaning and walking for transport, working and working out which burn calories and improves health.
Avoidance of Risky Substances
Reducing or eliminating substances that are addictive such as tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription medications to prevent chronic disease and enhance long-term physical and mental wellbeing.
Meaning & Purpose
The internal sense of being important, and understanding where and when external actions contribute to our family, community, and world. Together, this internal feeling and external actions offer a deep fulfilling life by balancing understanding of the self with acting upon that understanding to create impact.
Restorative Sleep
Sleep that allows you to wake up feeling refreshed and energized, mentally clear. Without high-quality sleep you feel fatigued, and experience brain fog and possibly memory lapses despite adequate hours of sleep.
Positive Social Connection
The experience of interacting with, feeling close to, and feeling valued by others. It involves having high-quality relationships that reduce stress and increase resilience against adversity.
Joy
More profound and enduring than fleeting happiness, joy is a deep intense emotion of great happiness, pleasure, and contentment. This often stems from a sense of wellbeing and deep connection that transcends immediate circumstances, and is often tied to a sense of purpose or gratitude
These are not taught as abstract ideas—but explored through lived experience.
Mailed Materials
That Support Real Life
Every other week, participants receive a physical mailing that reinforces the work between sessions.
Each envelope includes:
12-Week Progression
Weeks 1–3: Awareness & Personal Story
Participants explore their personal history, current patterns, and vision for change through reflection and creative mapping.
Weeks 4–6: Exploration & Experimentation
Focus shifts to nourishment, microbiome health, and movement—with simple, practical experiments.
Weeks 7–8: Regulation & Recovery
Sleep and stress are addressed through calming practices and supportive routines.
Weeks 9–10: Relationships & Environment
Focus shifts to nourishment, microbiome health, and movement—with simple, practical experiments.
Weeks 11–12: Integration & Forward Planning
Creative Reflection as a Core Practice
This program includes simple, accessible creative exercises such as:
No artistic experience is required.
These practices help participants see patterns more clearly and make changes that feel meaningful and lasting.
Measurable Wellbeing
(Optional and Self-Directed)
Participants may choose to track simple indicators such as:
These are used as personal awareness tools, not performance measures.
Designed for Community Settings
* Retirement and active adult communities
* Faith communities and congregations
* Small groups seeking meaningful, structured engagement
* Encourage participation and connection
* Support daily functioning and independence
* Provide structure without rigidity
* Respect individual pace and experience
The program is developed and facilitated by a Certified Health & Wellbeing Coach with Lifestyle Medicine specialty training.
It is delivered as an educational, community-based experience, and is not a substitute for medical care. It is meant to be a complement and provide information, if you choose to do so, for your health care practitioner, your counselor, and your health care team.
A Different Kind of Wellness Program
This program does not rely on technology, apps, or constant tracking.
In-person connection
Tangible materials
Fun and Enjoyment
Time in reflection and conversation
Practical, lived experience
It is designed to feel grounded, human, and sustainable.
Next Steps
If you are interested in bringing this program to your community—or participating in an upcoming group—we welcome a conversation.
