Elevating Workplace Wellbeing
Wellness Journeys
Mission Statement
Wellness Journeys provides on-site and virtual wellness services to companies that strive to make happier and healthier employees. The variety of programs are designed to inspire lifestyle improvements, resulting in better health, increased performance and a less stressed workforce. Wellness Journeys’ focus is on education and motivation to create healthier habits that stick by increasing knowledge and awareness of the participants through:
1. Programs designed to promote accountability and engagement
2. Pre and Post assessments
3. Multi-session programs and one-session workshops
4. Programs tailored to fit the needs of the workplace
Meet Polly Pitchford
Hello, I’m Polly Pitchford, Director of Wellness Journeys. Our lives are made up of countless journeys. Mine has been on the path of both fitness and healthy cooking since 1982 when I happened to take a vegetarian cooking class and an aerobics class and discovered that both could dramatically influence my health. Light bulb moments! That light has only grown brighter as my knowledge, experience and passion has done the same.
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My health-focused career includes fitness instructor, personal trainer, fitness industry presenter, chef, cooking instructor, cookbook author, TV cooking show host and countless cooking classes. Those journeys led me to speaking internationally as a motivational speaker on health and wellness. For the past decade I have created, produced and taught a variety of wellness classes, programs and challenges for employees of corporations and county governments in Florida.
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Educating and inspiring individuals and groups to live healthier lives is the Wellness Journeys mission. I am so glad you are considering these services for your employees. Feel free to contact me with questions. Email- info@pollypitchford.com | Call-941-685-7725.
Challenges
21-Day Sugar Elimination Challenge
The average American consumes about 20 teaspoons of added sugar a day. Break your sugar habit by joining the 21 Day Sugar Elimination Challenge for added sugars only. This challenge helps you get off the sugar roller coaster and get the education, skills and support you need to live a lower sugar lifestyle and feel great!
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Included in this challenge:
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21 Day digital sugar tracking journal
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Weekly 30 minute virtual meetings for education, support and accountability
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Cooking videos and recipes for sugar alternatives
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How to read food labels
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How to stock a healthy pantry
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Strategies for sustained behavior change
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Participant Q & A during optional 2nd meeting of the week
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Pre and Post Assessments
30 Day Nourish & Flourish Challenge
Each participant gets my published 30-Day Journal!
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This is the month! Learn how to embrace self-care with a focus on healthy food, moving more and stressing less. This challenge isn’t about doing it all, but instead, making small attempts each day in 1 (or all) of these areas. In the process, we start to retrain the brain with easy, doable steps that will ultimately turn into healthier habits.
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30-Day Nourish & Flourish Journal
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Weekly 30-minute meetings for education and support
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Daily support emails
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Optional 2nd meeting for accountability
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Strategies for sustained behavior change
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My personal cooking, stretching, movement, stress management videos
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Pre and Post Assessments conducted
7-Day Sodium Challenge
Excess sodium in the diet doesn’t come from the saltshaker. Learn the hidden sources of sodium in our standard American diet and ways to cut back.
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Participants will receive a sodium tracking journal
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Participate in 30-minute virtual meetings on days 1 and 7, and get support with daily emails with insightful tips to reduce sodium
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Pre and post-assessments conducted
Lunch & Learns
On-site or Virtual
Sugar – A Not So Sweet Tale
Sugars and refined carbs are a significant contributor to disease in our country. Learn how it is negatively affecting our health, where it hides in our foods, and how much we can consume without it being detrimental to our health. (A condensed version of the information shared in the 21-Day Sugar Challenge).
Stress Relief & Self-Care Happy Hour
New research underlines the importance and benefits of self-kindness. Feel better fast by learning the “3-Step Self-Care Method.” This simple process leaves you feeling energized, balances your nervous system in “real time,” and shifts your body into its powerful stress-reducing mode called, “Rest, Digest, and Heal.”
A Beginners Guide to Decoding Food Labels
This class will demystify nutrition labels and compare those numbers to the claims made on the front of the package. Serving sizes, fats, total carbohydrates vs. net carbs, sugars and those long ingredient lists will be explained. This is a valuable class for taking ownership of your health!
The Science of Gratitude
Practicing gratitude leads to more positive emotions, greater life satisfaction, better sleep, expressing more compassion and kindness, and even having a stronger immune system. Learn the cutting-edge science behind the benefits of gratitude and tools to use to improve your health and well-being.
The Four Tendencies • A Personality Profile
Based on the research of Gretchen Rubin.
(Great for Managers or Departments/Teams ... and Moms) Learn how people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework helps us know ourselves and others better, lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.
Mindful Eating - Rediscovering a Healthy Relationship
with Food
Transform your struggles with food, and renew your sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Mindful eating brings one’s full attention to the process of eating so that you can:
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Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
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Identify your habits and patterns with food
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Tune into your body’s needs about what, when, and how much to eat
Breaking Old Habits: The Art of Getting Unstuck
Learn how to break the habits you want to change. Understand how egative patterns are ingrained to protect us and how self-regulation and self-kindness get us unstuck and create the changes we want!
The Power of Self-Love to Change Your Life
This powerful class will enlighten you on how to replace habits that don’t serve your wellbeing with the self-kindness that leads to inspired actions for change. Learn the 5 Principles for Self-Love Practice in this cutting-edge presentation.
I’d Be Fine if it Wasn’t for You! What to do When People Won’t Behave
In this light-hearted program, learn tools and techniques that help you to find relief from your stress when others don’t behave. Understand what happens to you and your physiology when they don’t and what you can do to ensure your own well-being in the midst of their choices.
A Busy Woman’s Guide to Heart Health
(Great to promote for February’s Women’s Heart Month)
Learn how to protect the engine that powers your life - your heart. This class will cover the facts about women’s heart health, help you determine your risk level and give you simple healthy strategies to fit good heart habits into your busy life.
3 Simple Ways to Stop Self-Criticism (and reduce your Stress)
The critical “committee” in your mind keeps you stuck. Learn how to replace the voice of the critic with the wise counsel of your inner intelligence. This class will teach 3 techniques to a less stressed, more positive, and more empowered you!
Courses
3-6 Weeks
Brain Health: The Prevention of Alzheimer’s
A 6-week course (1 hour class)
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Alzheimer’s disease is the fastest-growing epidemic in the west. Participants will learn science-based tools for maintaining a healthy brain, including what medical experts are calling Alzheimer’s prevention strategies. Classes will include and overview of Alzheimer’s and tools we can use to help prevent it including:
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Gut Biome – How gut bacteria impacts our brain health.
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Stress – Reducing chronic stress is essential to improving our brain health.
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Exercise – How movement reduces inflammation in the body and the brain.
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Nutrition – Essential foods to include and those to avoid.
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Environmental Toxins – How exposure to our toxins negatively impacts the brain
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Sleep – Strategies for quality sleep and reduced risk of Alzheimer’s. This course material is from Dr. David Perlmutter’s program: Alzheimer’s - The Science of Prevention.
Trust Your Gut: Understanding the Gut Microbiome and How it Affects Your Weight and Overall Health
A 3-week course (1 hour class)
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The trillions of gut bacteria have a major impact on our overall health. In this course participants will learn what the Gut Microbiome is, how it determines our weight and health of the entire body, what we do to harm it and how we keep it healthy and in balance. The 3rd week includes a food demonstration of gut-healthy foods.
Cooking Classes
On-site, virtual or on-demand
These are plant-based cooking classes. Preparation of the foods allow participants to learn about the benefits of a plant based diet and sample easy to make recipes.
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Anti-Inflammatory Cooking
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Easy, Affordable Weeknight Dinners
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Healthy Snacking
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Eat Your Vegetables
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Happy Gut Microbiome Foods
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Low Sugar Eats
Movement Classes
In person or virtual
Gentle Yoga
Easy Stretch
Body Weight Workouts
Resistance Bands & Tubes
For the Core
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​Each Fitness class is personalized for your group with all levels of activities to increase mobility, build strength, and relieve stress.
Testimonials for the popular
Sugar Challenge
“Polly did a great job!
She provided videos, recipes, informative presentations, facilitated meetings for exchange of ideas within the group, and she provided lots of support all along the way.”
“Polly, I did want to let you know that I am still doing well not eating sugar and have lost 14 lbs! I am loving the changes and feel really good!
“Polly’s 21 Day Sugar Challenge had just the right ingredients for a successful journey toward a more healthy lifestyle. The timing of this program, right after the holidays, and the structure immersed me in a positive approach to the New Year. I loved joining the group online and appreciated how we were encouraged – never reproached. Thank you Polly!”
“The Sugar Tracking Journal helped me to really get a better understanding of what to look for and be aware of. It was a very comprehensive program, allowing each person to get as involved as they wanted to, and know there was a network of support. Great job!”
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