Balancing Wellness and Life - Certified Lifestyle Counselor - Blowing Rock NC and Boone NC

Wellness Programs - Blowing Rock, North Carolina


The LEARN Program
LEARN is an acronym that stands for 5 essential components of behavior change for weight management:
Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude, Relationships and Nutrition.

The LEARN Program will be offered as a 12 week small support group for those who are ready for a lifestyle approach to permanent weight management. Meetings will be held in the conference room of the Blowing Rock Conference Center, 1442 Goforth, Road, Blowing Rock, NC.

Click HERE if you are interested in learning more about the LEARN Program or would like to join this small group.

The Program includes 12 weekly hour-long small group meetings, an individual initial hour consultation with Gretchen, LEARN Manual, Food Mover calorie counter and a 1 year subscription to the Wellness Inventory.

“The lifestyle approach is the hallmark of the LEARN Program, emphasizing gradual, sustainable, and permanent changes in eating, exercising, thinking, feeling, and acting.”
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., author of “The Learn Program for Weight Management”.



Mastering Stress - A LifeStyle Approach
Mastering Stress will be a 16 week small support group for those who are ready to aquire the tools needed for a lifestyle approach to permanent stress management. Meetings will be held in the conference room of the Blowing Rock Conference Center, 1442 Goforth Road, Blowing Rock, NC.

Click HERE if you are interested in learning more about Mastering Stress - A LifeStyle Approach or would like to join this small group.

The Program includes 16 weekly hour-long small group meetings, an individual initial hour consultation with Gretchen, Mastering Stress Manual and a 1 year subscription to the Wellness Inventory.

“We cannot eliminate all stress, nor would we want to. Stress is part of being alive. The goal is to learn how to master it.” David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Ronald M. Rapee, Ph.D. and Leslie C. Reisner, Ph.D., authors of “Mastering Stress 2001 A LifeStyle Approach”.



Personalized, individual wellness counseling
Fees determined on an individual basis.



Wellness Inventory
The Wellness Inventory is a “whole person” assessment and lifestyle program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in your life, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.

$40 for a year’s subscription.

Wellness Inventory
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The Wellness Inventory




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Gretchen L. Piasecny
Certified LifeStyle Counselor
PO Box 2074
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
828-406-3087
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Blowing Rock Conference Center
1442 Goforth Road
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
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