Sunday, November 4, 2007

What is health coaching? Part II.


Simply put, health coaching is the facilitation of optimal and definitive self-health. It's a collaborative and individual program that focuses on enhancing and improving health & well-being. It sets the foundation for your capacity to define and achieve short and long-term health, wellness, and fitness goals. You're the expert. You know yourself better than anyone else and, believe it or not, have the answers to what success looks like for you. You may just need a little help in finding those 'answers', and, this is where a health coach comes in.

Whether it's general lifestyle and well-being enhancement or a more specific health or fitness-related issue or desire, the focus is on enhancing and building upon your inner strengths and core characteristics to improve your quality of life, not on 'fixing' a specific physical or emotional issue. A coach motivates, facilitates, and provides resources when necessary to help you set achievable goals. A coach does not diagnose, prescribe, or offer advice. We provide tools, not opinions.

Sessions may include:

>Discussing goals, strategies, and establishing boundaries
>Setting up systems to help ensure that you get what you need to stay motivated
>The fortification of other areas of your life that help serve as the foundation of change
>Designing a plan to establish the support system and healthy environment you need to assure success
>The identification of habits and mindsets that need to be purged in order to pave the way to excel
>Ideas to help find the time and energy you need
>The recognition and celebration of achievements
>Steps to reverse setbacks

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