What is health coaching?
Health coaching is a client driven partnership with a focus on future and personal growth.
It starts with the client identifying opportunities for change and desire for outcome. Sometimes this plan can come from the recommendation of a doctor or other practitioner and sometimes they come from you, the client. With those things in mind, Client and Coach collaborate with to define their big picture of health and how they are going to move toward it.
We know that true, lasting, and meaningful change comes from within us and we’ve all had the experience of someone telling us what we “should” do. Whether this was sage advice or not, what came up for you? Was is it resistance? Annoyance? A visceral urge to defend yourself and how you are doing the best you can?
Your coach gets it. What sets coaching apart is the collaborative nature that helps define what is important to you, what success will ultimately look like and how you want to get there. Your coach is a guide, a helper, a light bearer and encourager through this process.
And it is a process. Reserve the right to change your mind. Get to know your why before digging into the how.
“My doctor says I need to lose weight.”
“I’ve got to find a way to manage stress better.”
“I spend too much time on my phone.”
…but I’ve tried to change and I can’t.
Coaching is a powerful relationship and resource to help you tap into those parts of you that say “try again. It would be worth it.”
That’s why Dr. Jeffrey Bland, referred to as the “father of Functional Medicine,” refers to coaching as “where the rubber meets the road.” It is the relationship that converts “I should” and “They said” to “I will” and “I did”.
But I hear some of you. Your life is perfect and you don’t need a coach. You hit every goal you set exactly when you want to meet them and you never stumble along the way. Call me. I want to learn from you.
For everyone else who might find themselves with a goal they don’t know how to work toward, or a problem they haven’t begun to solve, I’d love to be your coach.
