A Professional Health Coach is a type of life coach, (who can practice as a life coach too), but is trained to specialise in Health, Nutrition & Wellness, supporting a client to implement lifelong healthy lifestyle habits.

 

Creating a new healthy life plan

 

With a Health Coach, clients create a brand-new vision of health and wellbeing for their lives and a redefined set of health values; a Health Coach will then support them to overcome barriers and limiting beliefs and invent a personalised health strategy that they not only follow with ease but love following too. 

 

Take weight loss as an example – studies show that the majority of people regain the weight they have lost and often gain more when following the next fad diet. Research also shows that heart disease patients are rarely successful in making the right changes to protect their health. 

 

Why do people need health coaches?

 

Perhaps you have made New Year’s resolutions to improve your health and get fitter and found, like 85% of us, that your motivation wanes after 3 weeks. Or, our doctor prescribed certain guidelines for us to follow, in the event of a certain disease, and we simply cannot follow through with those changes.  It can be difficult to change the way we eat and live our lives – we have so many deeply ingrained habits that can be hard to break. 

 

A Health Coach works alongside clients to re-think the way they live and create a new set of lifestyle habits underpinned by a clear vision for health and wellness. Health Coaches then provide the support and accountability to achieve them, overcoming barriers and challenges along the way.

 

Barriers to changing our health can include a lack of time, no motivation, an environment that doesn’t support the changes we want to make, unresolved physical issues, tiredness getting in the way of a desire to exercise, following the wrong nutrition plan for us and more – whatever the barriers to living life healthy and well, a Health Coach is there to get to the heart of them and work with clients to overcome them.   Clients are then able to find the right health strategy and maintain their motivation to live life optimally well.

 

How can a health coach change your life?

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Health Coaches can therefore coach clients on anything that will improve their overall physical and emotional health and well-being, Health Coaches can also set fun challenges with their clients turning what has traditionally been seen as a restrictive and boring ‘should-be-healthier’ process, into a life-changing, fun and exciting experience, measuring and celebrating all successes along the way.

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• Help you cut back on sugar and stimulants.

• Implementing what your doctor prescribed.

• Improve your diet.

• Improve sleep hygiene, and stress reduction techniques.

• Create a new exercise and fitness routine you can finally enjoy.

• Work towards performance goals (sports or work performance)

• Organise time with a default diary to create all-important ‘me’ time.

• Create strategies to improve feelings of well-being and happiness.

• Weight loss, weight management, and weight gain

• Increase confidence, find a new life purpose, and much more.

 

A Health Coach is there to ignite that spark of motivation and keep it alight so that you can reach your full health potential. Health Coaches understand that improving our health is a behavior change process. Not only do we need the right health, nutrition, and lifestyle plan we also need the right ‘mindset’ support so we can feel inspired and motivated to reach our health goals and live life optimally well.