Wellness Coaching

Desire to Make Healthy Lifestyle Changes?

If you’ll bring the desire to make changes, I’ll bring my 25 years of experience and knowledge of working in the wellness field to the wellness coaching setting. Working one-on-one with you in a partnership, I’ll guide you and walk beside you to provide encouragement, support and accountability. As you desire, I’ll bring my insight of the Christian faith and help you integrate your faith in overcoming your day-to-day obstacles that have been preventing you from moving forward. If you’re ready and committed to making some changes, together we can make it happen……. I will help take you from where you are now to where you want to be. We’ll explore different courses of action and come up with solutions to overcome the barriers that have been in your way.

Why Ask Me to Be Your Wellness Coach?

Drawing on my professional experience in the wellness field and my rich life experiences will give me insight into your challenges. We’ll work together as a team based on honesty, trust and respect. I’ll help you see through all the ‘fog’ and get to the heart of the matter and stay focused on doing what it takes to make the changes that you want to make. Your sense of hope will increase as you overcome some of the hurdles that have been in your path. You’ll feel personally empowered to take the necessary actions to accomplish your goals and reach your God-given potential. I’ll apply my Christian faith and knowledge of Christian principles to help you gain insight and understanding. And last, but perhaps most importantly, you’ll appreciate my caring, positive, encouraging and supportive nature.

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What is Wellness Coaching or Health Coaching?

Wellness coaches assist people to identify specific goals and then reach those goals.  We provide you with the tools, perspective and structure to accomplish more through a process of accountability. Coaching is a consistent, on going relationship where the coach stays with the client to help implement new skills, changes and goals. Lifestyle, in a coaching context, addresses the whole person, including physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being. While we might initially be focused on a physical health issue, other dimensions of your life will also most likely be addressed. It is through our trusting partnership that is established that you’ll be more focused, deliberate and hopeful as you take the necessary actions that will better enable you to achieve your desires and dreams.

How and Where Will the Wellness Coaching Occur?

Conveniently, my wellness coaching can be done in person or over the phone so geographical boundaries are eliminated. If you live close by, we may well agree to meet in person and sometimes I might walk with you while we talk. When at all possible, the first session will be face-to-face and, if desired, I will send frequent notes of encouragement by email.

What is the Format for Wellness Coaching?

We will work together to choose the focus, format, and the desired outcome of your coaching. I recommend weekly 30-40 minute sessions for a minimum of three months. I’ll ask you to complete a questionnaire that helps me understand your current situation and challenges. Then by interacting at regular intervals throughout each month, we will be better able to set strategies, take action, and keep you moving forward. How does coaching differ from counseling or what a close friend can do? Wellness coaching is not therapy. Where therapy brings understanding and awareness of the past to a client, coaching provides the support and strategy to make changes based on the awareness a client holds. Wellness coaching concentrates primarily on the present and future, not on the past. A supportive friend is wonderful to have in life, yet does not hold the objectivity and distance that a coach does. A coach is a professional who is trusted to work with you on the most important aspects of your life. A coach offers a different perspective of the truth because of the emotional distance the professional relationship offers.

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“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”  Romans 12:2