What is Health Coaching?

There’s this hilarious thing about how health and wellness coaching is explained on websites that makes me laugh. I did it too, at first, and I still laugh when I come across this language because even though the description is true, this flowery language it’s not helpful to the person looking for help. It leaves someone wondering… what exactly will we be doing? Is it actually going to help? 

To know if coaching is the next right support for you, it's helpful to know how the conversation is different than advice and the collaborative nature of it that makes it as useful as it is. Keeping reading for the what, the why and the how.

The Definition

Every time I go to explain coaching to someone new, it never comes out the same way twice, truly. The conversations are so organic and the needs so diverse that the way it helps, changes from person to person. Working with as many clients as I have over the years has even shaped my definition as I’ve watched the way it’s worked.

So I’ll give you coaching in 4 words:

• Collaborative,

• Intuitive,

• Self-Generated,

• CHANGE

  
  

Outside of this, the definition is fluid.

It’s support and shifting on your terms, with the expertise of someone who can help reclaim self-trust, restore agency and teach the tools and perspectives to self-support.

With the help of a coach, you’ll get a hang of sourcing yourself, sourcing within. We rebuild this trust, using ours as a model, to make the informed decisions around food, relations, transitions, and moving your body so you can feel as good as you want to feel.

We sift through cultural messaging here that doesn’t serve you. We trade routines that negatively affect your mind and health for ones that support it. We spend the time other health professionals don’t have the time to spend to truly help a shift stick. (It’s the conventional healthcare system, not the provider).

What Coaching Helps

Let me help (finally) clear the confusion. Here’s when and where what I do helps:

• Insomnia (acute or chronic)

• Reducing A1c, HTN, and LDL cholesterol through lifestyle changes (nutrition, movement, stress etc)

• Shifting perspective and mindset in places of significant life stress

• Designing self-support when living with a chronic condition (great for chronic pain and autoimmune)

• When walking through grief (great if you are working with or also plan to work with a therapist)

• Compulsory phone + screen use

• Movement routines that are realistic and honor life schedules

• Navigating a job transition or any “what’s next?” moment

• Striking the highly sought after ‘work/life balance’ 

• Giving day-to-day tools (practices that use breath, movement to self-support anytime)

Read here to see the many principles and focuses that help accomplish everything you see.

Please, step into my office…

Schedule a free, 20-minute chemistry call anytime on my website