life & wellness coaching

Everyone has a vision of his or her ideal life. Maybe you’ve always dreamed of being a successful writer, teacher, doctor, nurse, musician, farmer, or corporate executive. However, you haven’t made it a reality yet. A coach might be what you need to successfully navigate the course from vision to reality. Life and Wellness Coaches replicate what has been practiced for centuries by people who push athletes to greatness in sports. Life and wellness coaches help individuals to realize dreams, discover purpose and develop strengths and abilities to achieve success.

What Is a Life Coach?

A life coach is someone who helps you reach a goal or make a change in your life. A life coach helps you get from where you are in your life now, to where you envision your life. Coaches have the ability to view things from afar — in what some call ‘helicopter vision’ — and to shed new light on difficult situations. Often they can act as a sounding board through tough decisions, help sharpen skills, and motivate. These professionals develop a plan, provide guidance, inspire, motivate and empower individuals to improve careers, income potential, relationships, and overall wellbeing. They help individuals to:

• Recognize their skills, strengths and abilities
• Stay positive, hopeful and dream big
• Refocus their life’s goals
• Differentiate what is urgent from what is important
• Learn to navigate systems and identify available resources
• Move past challenges that stand in the way of those goals

Who works with a Life Coach?

Entrepreneurs, executives, business leaders, actors, musicians, creative people, managers, small business owners, visionaries, professionals and home-makers all reach their goals with the help of a life coach. If there is a gap between where you are now and where you want to be, there is room for life coaching. Not only will your life coach help you close the gap, your life coach will help you break through your limited beliefs and challenge you to think bigger.

What would you work on with a life coach?

• Setting and achieving goals and objectives
• Planning — business, career and life
• Blasting through blocks and fears
• Clearing clutter
• Financial security and independence
• Balancing business and personal life
• Making key decisions and designing strategies for success
• Communicating powerfully and succinctly
• Building powerful relationships
• Breaking through the glass ceiling
• How to move forward in your career and get promoted
• Finding the ideal career/work or business
• Making an important life transition
• Starting and growing a business
• Living an ideal life
• Identifying core values and passions
• Fulfilling personal and emotional needs
• Getting organized
• Making more money
• Having loads more time to enjoy life

What Is a Wellness Coach?

A wellness coach is a professional who works with individuals and groups to empower them achieve self-determined goals related to health and wellness. Our Wellness Coaches help individuals to find the motivation and tools required to achieve their physical and emotional health goals through a holistic approach which focuses on the relationship between the mind, body and spirit. Wellness is an active, lifelong process of becoming aware of choices, improving your health and making decisions toward a more balanced and fulfilling life. Our strategies for health and wellness are well aligned with the goals of Healthy People 2020.

Healthy People 2020 is a national agenda for reducing the most significant preventable threats to health. The goals of Healthy People 2020 include:

• Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death
• Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
• Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
• Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages

Our health coaches will:

• Help you manage chronic illness such as diabetes, high cholesterol, blood pressure and obesity.
• Collaborate with your health care provider to develop a personalized health plan for success.
• Support you in making healthy choices and positive lifestyle changes tailored to your needs.
• Enroll you in a smoking cessation class to start your journey to becoming tobacco – free.
• Enroll you in alcohol cessation classes.
• Teach you stress management techniques to lower stress and anxiety.
• Help you deal with anger issues.

How Do I Work With a Coach?

First, you will sit down with your life coach or wellness coach over the phone or in person. The sessions will range from 30 minutes to an hour. During the meeting you will explore what you want to accomplish and how you want to go about it. Through the questions your coach asks, together you will establish your goals and identify possible barriers. Then you will collaboratively develop a plan and outline the steps required to achieve those goals. The number of coaching sessions varies from person to person since this will depend on your specific needs.