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Coaching Emotions for Better Lifestyle Choices

The landscape of emotion is best walked with an ally. Check out the best in Health Coach Training: www.realblance.com Lifestyle behavioral change is not simply a rational process.  Emotions influence or sometimes completely determine the outcome of decisions we are confronted with every day.  When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of…

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Wading Into the Lake of Emotion: a Metaphor for Coaches

Health and Wellness Coaches seek to serve their clients the best they know how. People have been drawn to do this work because they care about people and want to assist them in their journey to living their best life possible. To do this we bring forward our best utilization of coaching competencies, behavioral change theories, evidence-based practices and methodologies. However, as the authors…

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Coaching About Fear: A Wellness Coaching Perspective

One of the biggest barriers to our success in life, or with our Wellness Plan is our fears. What holds us back from making the changes in our lives we know we need to make? How do we coach with someone around their fears while staying within our Scope of Practice? (https://nbhwc.org/scope-of-practice/) Fears and Consequences A recent joke goes: “The only people who like change are babies with wet…

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Coaching Habits That Can Take Away From Your Effectiveness

The longer we do anything the more we fall into habits. Habits are time savers. They help us avoid making our lives more complex than they need to be. They often are shortcuts that help us to experience less stress and get things done, sometimes quite efficiently. Doing certain things by rote can serve us well. Health and wellness coaches are continuously helping their clients to establish…

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The Growth Mindset vs. The Fixit Mindset in Coaching

Our mindsets determine the way we coach.

“We define mindsets as core assumptions that we have about domains or categories of things that orient us to a particular set of expectations, explanations, and goals. So to put that a little bit more simply, mindsets are ways of viewing reality, that shape, what we expect, what we understand, and what we want to do.” Alia J. Crum, PhD.…

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The Zone of Compassion: More Thoughts on the Heart of Coaching

How do we allow ourselves to enter the zone of compassion, and what holds us back from going there? How do we keep our “coherent sense of self” that Erik Erikson talked about intact when we connect with the ‘other’? (Allow me to use the term ‘other’ to refer to a person or persons, clients, or otherwise throughout this piece.). I took on the question of Compassionate Detachment in a previous blog…

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Top Ten Books for Health & Wellness Coaching

Take your professional coach development deeper and prepare for the NBHWC Exam with these great books.

Winter is a great time for coaches to rest up, reflect and recharge their energy. It’s a great time to also work on your ongoing professional development and what better way this time of year than to cozy up with a good book! Many of you are taking your professional development as a health & wellness coach seriously and are preparing to take the certification exam of the National Board for Health…

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More Creative Health & Wellness Coaching

How to maximize the creative process in your coaching.

A stimulating conversation with a colleague launched me on an exploration of how we can allow ourselves to be more creative in the coaching work we do. A mark of a more masterful coach that I’ve always observed is their ability to be creative in the moment in ways that enhanced the coaching process. Watching them work, I would see inventive experiments emerge that were not just tricks from an old…

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The Coaching Conversation: Facilitating Versus Contributing

The Coaching Conversation: Facilitating Versus Contributing

Coach training often talks about the importance of the ‘Coaching Conversation’. What is it exactly and how is it very different from a Social Conversation? Coach Patrick Williams (https://drpatwilliams.com) describes the Coaching Conversation as: Coaching is a conversation where the client gets to say what they have not said, think what they have not thought, and even dream out loud with a…

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Busting Out of Precontemplation: TTM and Wellness Coaching

Busting Out of Precontemplation: TTM and Wellness Coaching

James and Janice Prochaska were kind enough to edit the section of my new book Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html that conveys how coaches can make use of their model for behavioral change – The Transtheoretical Model. I am deeply grateful to them for this. While many coaches are familiar with their…

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Health & Wellness Coaching via ZOOM: Tips for Better Sessions

Health & Wellness Coaching via ZOOM: Tips for Better Sessions

Most coaching has always been done remotely, primarily via telephone. Nowadays coaches and clients hold many, if not most, of their sessions via some form of video conferencing platform. Zoom, GoTo Meeting and many other apps and services allow us to coach clients all around the globe. What fun it can be to have clients on several continents, and perhaps others just across town, yet see them…

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Clarity on Scope of Practice: The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement

Clarity on Scope of Practice: The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement

Health and wellness professionals are sometimes confused about the role each professional might play in helping individuals to live their best life possible. Our clients are seeking to be healthier by attaining such goals as losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind. To do so they need:• excellent wellness…

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Compassionate Detachment

January 2022! Welcome to a New Year and all of its potential. Ready to put the stresses and the tragedies of 2021 in the rearview mirror it’s a time to set intentions for a better year ahead. Hopefully you had some respite over the winter holidays and are ready to charge ahead in a positive way. Yet, the carryover, perhaps hangover, from that last year is very real for many people including…

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Consciously Well Holidays

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” This cheery tune becomes an earwig for many of us as we wander through any kind of store playing holiday muzak. However, “According to a survey, 45% of…people living in the United States would choose to skip out on the holidays, rather than deal with the stress of it all.” (https://www.claritychi.com/holiday-stress/). So, what’s so bad about holidays?…

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Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 3 Accountability and Support

Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 3 Accountability and Support

This is the third of a three-part series on Coaching Structure. In our first blog (https://realbalancewellness.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-one-how-to-get-started/) we showed how a coach can use structure by Co-Creating The Agenda for the session to get off to a great start. In our second blog – Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2…

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Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2 Process and Progress

Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2 Process and Progress

Processing in coaching can be like a long, winding road. Though every coaching session is unique, coaching sessions that follow a general structure are usually more productive. In our last blog (https://realbalancewellness.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-one-how-to-get-started/) we showed how a coach can use structure by Co-Creating The Agenda for the…

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Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions: Part One – How to Get Started

Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions: Part One – How to Get Started

“So!  What do you want to talk about today?”  Your client responds with the first thing on their mind.  You start processing the topic with them and then…what?  Or, you greet your client and start checking in on what they had made commitments to working on and when the first one is brought up you begin processing it and…then what? Health and wellness coaches often struggle with launching their…