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What is Health Coaching?
What is Health Coaching?
Health coaches specialize in behavior change. They support their clients in finding their own strategies and motivation for change, overcoming obstacles, and implementing protocols that have either been prescribed by a clinician or nutritionist/dietitian or that the client has chosen to implement on their own.
Health coaches specialize in behavior change. They support their clients in finding their own strategies and motivation for change, overcoming obstacles, and implementing protocols that have either been prescribed by a clinician or nutritionist/dietitian or that the client has chosen to implement on their own.
Health coaches don’t operate on the “expert model” that’s so common in healthcare. They don’t lecture, prescribe, or simply dispense advice. Instead, they empower others to make the choice for health, including healthier behaviors, for themselves.
Health coaches don’t operate on the “expert model” that’s so common in healthcare. They don’t lecture, prescribe, or simply dispense advice. Instead, they empower others to make the choice for health, including healthier behaviors, for themselves.
How Effective is Health Coaching?
How Effective is Health Coaching?
In short, it’s extremely effective. Health coaching has been shown to:
In short, it’s extremely effective. Health coaching has been shown to:
• Improve weight loss and help people maintain a lower weight for longer
• Improve weight loss and help people maintain a lower weight for longer
• Lead to faster reduction of blood sugar levels in diabetic patients
• Lead to faster reduction of blood sugar levels in diabetic patients
• Lower total cholesterol levels in people with coronary heart disease
• Lower total cholesterol levels in people with coronary heart disease
• Lessen feelings of depression and improve overall quality of life
• Lessen feelings of depression and improve overall quality of life
• Encourage people to stick with the changes they’ve made long term
• Encourage people to stick with the changes they’ve made long term
Contact me at gingercfhc@gmail.com to schedule a free initial consultation to see if this is the right time for health coaching for you.
Contact me at gingercfhc@gmail.com to schedule a free initial consultation to see if this is the right time for health coaching for you.
“We don’t solve our problems,
we outgrow them."—Carl Jung
“We don’t solve our problems,
we outgrow them."—Carl Jung
Health coaching is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any disease or condition. It is not intended to substitute for the advice, treatment and/or diagnosis of a qualified licensed professional. Health Coaches may not make any medical diagnoses, claims and/or substitute for your personal physician's care.
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