An Introduction to Health Coaching

Health coaching is an evolving field, and it’s growing more in popularity.

With millions of people suffering from preventable lifestyle-related diseases, Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches are uniquely positioned to bring about lasting change in the lives of individuals all across the globe and help spread the ripple effect of empowered health and happiness.

Health Coaches use a forward-thinking approach. The support they offer is both science- and experience-based; it’s a combination of traditional and modern approaches catered to each bio-individual client. In addition to supporting clients with specific goals, Health Coaches empower clients to choose health-promoting behaviours that work for them. They raise awareness and offer support as clients move in their own bio-individual ways toward the greater health they want for themselves. Coaching hopefully leads to long-term behaviour change, but only because Health Coaches help clients do the meaningful work that forms a strong foundation to create and maintain long-term lifestyle changes to enhance their overall quality of life.

Health Coaches are coaches who focus on health and wellness. They have a lot in common with life coaches, career coaches, and even athletic coaches! Like other coaches, they approach coaching as a relationship. They’re partners throughout their clients’ journeys – journeys that consist of ongoing practice and feedback. All coaches help clients reach their full potential by raising awareness, making connections, identifying patterns, shifting limiting beliefs, using a growth mind- set, and offering strengths-based support. The difference is that Health Coaches focus specifically on health.

Health Coaches:

· Support and empower individual wellness transformations

· Help people look at health holistically and work toward greater quality of life overall

· Guide people through the steps of long-term behaviour change

· Are like any other coach, except they focus specifically on health

Health coaches help clients develop and progress towards personal wellness goals by:

· Building self-awareness of feelings, mind-sets, and behaviour’s

· Exploring areas of life that might be out of balance

· Setting effective and achievable goals

· Identifying perceived barriers

· Implementing healthy lifestyle changes

· Staying accountable

The role of a health coach is to guide, support & empower clients to take responsibility for their health & wellness achievements & personal goals. Empowering positive change within client driven wellness goals through….

💃Exercise 🍎Food Cravings 💤Sleep 🤸‍♀️Energy 🧘‍♀️Stress Management & 😮‍💨Digestion to name a few. A Health Coach dose NOT replace a medical practitioner by diagnosing or treating clients.