Who needs a Health and Wellness Coach?

Sep 25, 2019 | Health

A health coach is a supportive mentor and wellness authority who helps others feel their best through individualized food and lifestyle changes that meet their unique needs and health goals; as defined by the Institute of Integrated Nutrition.

A health coach can spend the time to help someone figure out what their personal health and wellness issues are, how they intersect and affect them holistically and help them develop strategies to overcome them, whether it’s that they want to lose weight, reduce stress, sleep better or lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

A health coach can liaise with various kinds of health professionals to help patients achieve sustainable progress. A health and wellness coach helps clients make positive and lasting changes to their health.

Health coaching is the use of evidence based skillful conversation, clinical interventions and strategies to actively and safely engage clients/patients in health behavior changes.

Now that I’ve provided you with the various possible definitions of who a health coach is and what/how they can create an impact for you, let’s come to the point of who really needs a health and wellness coach. If your answer to some or all of the questions below are YES, then yes, a health and wellness coach is for you!

  • Do you have a family history of chronic diseases and want to safeguard yourself?
  • Do you suffer from unmanageable stress, disordered sleep, weight issues, poor digestion and bad skin?
  • Do you suffer from a chronic disease but need a more holistic solution to combat it?
  • Do you make health promises to yourself but are not able to keep up with them?
  • Do you want to create positive health examples for your kids/family/friends by assimilating more awareness for yourself through healthy and powerful healing choices?
  • Do you struggle with aligning your mind, body and soul?

The level of empowerment that a client can have over their own health is remarkable once you start working with a health coach. You know your body best and your body knows how to heal in the best possible way, only if you don’t sabotage it. Realising and embracing the freedom of being able to truly harness the absolute potential of what great health can do in your life can be transformational.

In today’s times of quick fixes and having a pill for every ill, going back to the roots is a liberating journey with a health and wellness coach.

How does a health and wellness coach work?

Ideally for a period of 6 months, meeting once every fortnight for an hour to check in, discuss, strategise, recommend and assess.

Most often, once you start working with a health and wellness coach your doctor visits become relegated to purely critical issues since you tend to enjoy great health throughout. Some renowned doctors even recommend working with a health coach for a minimum of 3 months before they agree to see the patient since most often clients are able to reverse or control most/all of their symptoms through the strategies executed by them which makes the jobs of the doctors easier and doesn’t make the patients dependent on medication.

For example, if your child is struggling in a certain subject, you decide to get an additional tutor. If you go to the gym or want to train for a marathon, you get a trainer. You are struggling in pushing your career forward, so you get a mentor.

But, what ties it all in, is your absolute uncompromisable health and when you struggle in attaining optimum health? Yes, you got this one right :). You get a health and wellness coach!

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