Health Coach or Therapist?
I am grateful to the HealthieYoo website for the opportunity to be included with this article. Having worked as a Licensed Psychologist and currently as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, I can say that there are certainly plenty of similarities. My opinion may change in the years to come as nuances become
Making a Move…But How?
It's enough to make your head spin if you're someone who is contemplating trying to get physically active. These are the main blurbs associated with articles on exercise which have landed in my inbox just in the last week. Are you ready? * A New Study Says You Might Need to Exercise Twice as Much * One Hour
Healthy Salesperson: An Oxymoron?
Do you work in sales? Are you a sales leader? I spent many years as a sales professional in my second career. Unfortunately, it was before I had really figured out all of the key components to my complete health. For much of the time, I was overly stressed, too sedentary, and watched many of
You Want Skills, Not Pills
Spoiler: Most diseases are considerably influenced by lifestyle. The pills you take might alleviate some of your discomfort, but they will not do a thing to change the progression of the disease- and it will progress- without changes to your lifestyle. When diseases progress… well, I don’t need to spell that out. Yes, I do. Chronic
Fear Setting
This post is a summary of an awesome Ted Talk by Tim Ferriss (author of the 4-Hour Workweek, among others). If you have 13 minutes, I highly recommend it (watch here: Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month), but if not, I've done my best to summarize. In this talk, he talks about his
Vision
Why did the chicken cross the road? Even in this age-old joke, it's all about the reason. The Why. In health coaching, we'll often start with a vision session. If that sounds too cliche for you, all it means is really getting in touch with your "why." What is/are your most important reasons for wanting to
“I Can See It!”
I want to tell you a true story. I worked recently with a client who asked me early on about my own health journey. I wanted to understand the reason for the question, and upon further discussion, she blurted out, “Will it always be this hard?” This person had taken on some major diet and lifestyle
Partnership
If you’re here, you might be feeling some self-doubt. You’ve tried and failed so many times to lose weight, get more exercise, handle your stress better, and here you are, back at the same place. Then you feel down on yourself and demoralized and weak. I can help. Yes, you can change. As a health coach,
Discipline- What Is It, Really?
When you think about making changes to your health behaviors, what are words that come to mind? Grit? Suck it up? Grin and bear it? Torture? Discipline? What if it didn’t have to be all negative? What if the process of change (yes, change can hard) could happen with a supportive partner, at your pace, with your
