How a Coach Can Help You
Why Savvy Consumers are Hiring the Expertise of Wellness Coaches
May 27, 2009
Wellness coaching has its roots in the findings of behavior scientists who have shown that one-to-one coaching is among the most effective approaches to helping people make and sustain improvements in their lives. A coach enables change by focusing on the client's stated needs, values, vision, and personal goals in order to bring about his or her physical and mental best.
Wellness coaching comes at a good time as savvy consumers of health products are refusing to buy into plans and products that "easily and quickly" produce results. The use of short lived exercise plans, questionable exercise gadgets, over the counter remedies, and "super-powered" diet foods are becoming outdated consumer thinking methods.
What Can a Health and Wellness Coach do for You?
It's encouraging to see people gain a new found perspective of what it means to be well. In the field of wellness coaching and personal training, many clients gain an understanding and appreciation for the needed sensibility that comes from progressing one's lifestyle in a slow, deliberate, and focused manner. These savvy consumers, engaging the help of wellness coaches, attain not only increased health status as indicated by better health numbers such as lowered blood pressure, decreased cholesterol, decreased body mass index, lower blood triglycerides, but a better sense of what it means to live healthy, happy and with an increased sense of life satisfaction and purpose.
Wellness Coaches are Diverse Experts in the Health Field
Certified Wellness coaches must have a background of expertise in one of the health fields and as a result often are quite diverse within their field of wellness. Some of these fields are: registered nurses, health educators, personal trainers, nutritionist, lifestyle coaches, physical therapists and most recently medical doctors.
A coach is dedicated to his client's success and implements various collaborative strategies to enable the client to achieve more than what he could on his own. Sometimes a coach is a sounding board, often times a mentor, and at other times a challenger holding one accountable to the goals he is looking to achieve.
An important benefit coaches offer is helping the client envision what is possible. They are solidly rooted in the practice of positive psychology to facilitate the best possible outcome for their client's total health and well being.
Who Hires Wellness Coaches
Clients hire wellness coaches to help them obtain a variety of lifestyle benefits such as lowering blood pressure, monitoring weight loss, lowering blood sugar and cholesterol, improving bone density, training for a long distance run, or simply balancing ones lifestyle more efficiently. With Internet and cellular phone technology coaching can be done from anywhere on the globe.
