It seems 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exercise plans, questionable exercise gadgets, over the counter remedies, and “super-powered” diet foods are becoming outdated thinking methods for health and wellness aficionados.

Wellness Coaches For Better Health
Within the past 3 years, savvy consumers have engaged the help of wellness coaches to attain not only better health, but a better sense of what it means to be healthy.
I am encouraged daily as I see people gain a new found perspective of what it means to be well. In my own work with training and coaching clients, many gain an understanding and appreciation for the needed sensibility that comes from progressing one’s lifestyle in a slow, deliberate, and focused manner.

Wellness Coaching For Long Lasting Behavior Changes
Wellness coaching is a newly emerging profession that focuses on developing a partnership with individuals who are interested in improving their health status in order to enjoy a more vital and vigorous lifestyle. It 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

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 their 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 they are looking to achieve.

Rooted in Positive Psychology
An important benefit coaches offer is helping the client envision what is doable. 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.

Coaches For a Variety of Lifestyle Benefits
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.

Our Wealth is in Our Health,
Kim Miller