Alberta Healthy Living Program

January News from the Alberta Healthy Living Program 

Power Up Your Health!

Each month, we share Alberta Health Service’s Healthy Living Program.  They have some fantastic resources and programs to help us age in place.

Winter 2025 Newsletter is now available!

Joy, boundaries, and self-kindness: Navigating the holidays with chronic pain

For many people, the winter holidays are a time for family, parties, presents, tasty treats, joy and laughter. If you live with chronic (long-lasting) pain from a condition like arthritis, fibromyalgia, or a past injury, you may need to change how you prepare for the holidays so you don’t push yourself too
hard and cause more pain.

Visit their website to learn more about our program and services; or call them at 1-844-527-1160.

We hope you’re enjoying the winter season so far. Ready to start the new year on the right foot? Explore upcoming classes and workshops starting in January.

Better Choices, Better Health® provides participants with a safe, empathetic, and interactive space to learn about several tools that can be used to take charge of any chronic condition or disease.

During January and February, they will be offering three streams of the workshop: Chronic Disease, Thrive at Every Size, and Chronic Pain. All these workshops run once a week for 2 ½ hours for six weeks.

Which workshop is right for me?

All workshops will go over the following topics: healthy sleep habits, exercising safely, reading food labels, dealing with difficult emotions, action planning, problem-solving, decision-making, relaxation and mental distraction, and communicating effectively.

• The Chronic Disease and Thrive at Every Size workshops also provide information about worst-case thinking, self-talk, better breathing, and preventing falls.
• Thrive at Every Size spends some extra time reviewing mindful eating practices and is for adults who are looking to live a healthy life at the size they are at.
• Our Chronic Pain workshops will teach you about pacing strategies, pain and the brain, communicating about pain, healthy eating for pain and exercising safely with pain.

Better Choices, Better Health – Chronic Disease

Mondays, February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026 | 9:30 a.m. – noon

Better Choices, Better Health® – Chronic Pain

• Thursdays, January 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5 & 12, 2026 | 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• Saturdays,  January 10, 17, 24, 31, February 7 & 14, 2026 | 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Thursdays, January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26 & March 5, 2026 | 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Tuesdays, February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 10 & 17, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
• Fridays, February 20, 28, March 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026 | 9:30 a.m. – noon

Better Choices, Better Health® – Thrive at Every Size

Thursdays, February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2026 | 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.