Wellness Coaching

  

What is a Wellness Coach ? 

Wellness can be defined as an individual’s personal journey toward the mental, physical, and emotional betterment of life.

Translation: It is not only someone’s behaviors or habits, but the process of making healthy ongoing choices which in turn make that person’s life better, healthier, and emotionally satisfying.
  
Wellness coaching is unique because the client isn’t told what to do but given information and empowered to examine their choices and make their own decisions on how to move forward. By empowering that person to examine their relationships and the choices themselves and guiding them through changes, coaches see lasting results long after the client and coach have seized working together.
  
A wellness coach creates a safe environment for a client to examine not only their habits but also their health to established areas of their lifestyle that affect their wellness. 
  
These established areas include nutrition, exercise, relationships, careers as well as stress management, mindset, and more. Wellness coaches help clients to establish subjective and objective goals and then explore the obstacles and areas of challenge on the way to those goals.

"Be empowered to examine your choices and make your own decisions on how to move forward"

What does a Wellness Coach do ?

Coaches typically meet with their clients for either one-on-one or small group sessions. During their sessions, they support clients with a variety of tools to examine not only their behavior but their mental and emotional reactions to that behavior. 

Together coach and client create action plans, brainstorm solutions, and troubleshoot potential obstacles to the clients’ long-term success. Though the coach is supportive and provides information the onus is on the client to decide what works best for them. 

Coaches are not therapists and therefore do not diagnose or treat mental or physical disease or dysfunction. However, they will make it known if there are aspects that they cannot and will not provide coaching on. 

Certified coaches are trained in how to support the client through examining their emotional or behavioral challenges and can teach clients related mental and emotional skills. These problem-solving skills don’t only help the client to reach their current goals but are ongoing tools that propel clients forward long after the current session. 

These skills might include in-the-moment reframing of internal dialogue and self-talk, how to break down goals, examine and understand emotional reactions to behavior, dealing with shame, focusing on strength, or finding motivation when feeling stuck.

  

Why wellness coaches are important~


Change can be hard. 

Over the last few decades, research has evolved techniques for how to positively support change. Coaching allows for an unbiased party in one’s life to provide evidence-based information, reflect on current behavior, and brainstorm possible solutions to a clients need. 

They do so with unconditional positive regard, the judgment-free position of supporting their client to make lasting changes that work for them. Wellness coaches are trained not only in coaching but have information on lifestyle practices related to wellness. 

This is a unique combination of physiological understanding with psychological tools that support the betterment of one’s life. This unique combination of tools also allows a coach to support the client in priming compounding positive change. By leveraging differing phenomena such as the transfer effect, where a positive change in one area of life creates positive change in another, or habit stacking, where the one current habit that comes naturally to the client is stacked with a new habit they want to begin. This creates small but significant changes over time. By understanding how these mechanisms work, a wellness coach supports their client not only in the immediate future but in building lasting changes which create the opportunity for a transformative lifestyle changes.

  

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