Curious How a Health Coach Can Help You?
Have you wondered about what a health coach actually does? The term “health coach” can seem so broad and vague, but in simple words a health coach is like your personal health guide and cheerleader. A health coach can help you achieve your personal health and wellness goals by guiding you to implement lifestyle changes. There are different types of health coaches that help their clients in different ways. For instance a Holistic Health Coach takes into account both mind and body to bring about sustainable health change in their clients. A Wellness Health Coach works with clients to achieve balance in all aspects of their lives including physical, social, spiritual, emotional and occupational well-being. An Integrative Nutrition Health Coach focuses on a holistic approach to health and well-being. They support clients to set health goals, explore their health concerns, and implement food and lifestyle changes to feel their best.
Even though health coaches differ in their approach, they all help their clients in these areas:
Building self-awareness of feelings, mind-sets, and behaviors
Exploring areas of life that might be out of balance
Setting effective and achievable goals
Identifying perceived barriers
Implementing healthy lifestyle changes
Staying accountable
It is important to remember that health coaches do not diagnose, treat, or heal diseases. They help guide and empower clients and work as allies with other medical professionals to help their clients become healthier. Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches are trained to help clients nourish themselves with the primary foods of life, including spirituality, career, physical activity, and relationships. Research continues to support the use of lifestyle change involving exercise, spiritual practice, diet, and other behaviors for conditions such as chronic stress, weight loss, migraine headaches, constipation, and arthritis, as well as many others.
Whether you’re struggling with a chronic disease, mental or emotional health challenges, weight issues, or you simply want to achieve your health goals but have not been able to implement changes by yourself, a health coach can guide and support you on your wellness journey by providing support, advice, a safe space to talk, techniques, tools, and strategies specific to your goals and lifestyle.
Healing is a process and requires loving support. We all need support to feel well and stay well; so why not work with a health coach to feel healthier and happier?
Blessings,
Flora
