A health coach helps individuals make nutrition and lifestyle modifications to improve health, create new habits and thus make lasting changes. This help comes in the form of education, encouragement, support, self discovery, accountability and empowerment. Health Coaches are trained to help you determine the "why" behind your desired change and keep you on track to achieve those goals.
Health Coaching is not a quick fix! It takes time, effort and sustained motivation to make behavioral changes. Unlike traditional medicine, health coaching focuses on preventative care. Our goal is to make sure you never have to go on the blood pressure medication or anti-diabetic medication (for example) and if you are, then to help you reverse that process.
Personal goals are broad and can range from weight loss to stress management, sleep challenges to hormonal challenges and even gut dysbiosis, inflammation reduction and blood sugar regulation. We look at nutrition, but we take a deeper dive into areas of your life like relationships, spirituality, career, physical movement and joy! Health Coaches help you connect the dots so that you can get a birds eye view of your life and how your choices effect your health, both physically and emotionally. Coaches provide a sounding board and an empathetic ear as clients are led to discover what is most important in maintaining a happy and healthy life.
Want to know more?
This article from Harvard Health discusses the importance of Health Coaching.
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Katie