How Are Your Personal Care Items Affecting Your Health and Well-being?

November 14, 2022 by Liz Carter

Your Client’s Food Isn’t the Only Thing Causing Sickness, Inflammation, and Disease: It’s Time to Clean Up Personal-Care Products, too.

What You Are About to Read Will Shock You.

In our related posts, we’ve covered why it’s important to go organic with your food. Now, let’s talk about something else your body ingests daily: your personal-care products. The skin is our largest organ, and it ingests just about anything you put on it, channeling it straight into your bloodstream and carrying it to multiple organs throughout your body. Think about this whenever you apply a product. It’s just like eating it because the skin absorbs much of what you put on it. And personal care products can be loaded with chemicals that can be toxic to the human body.

The average adult uses nine personal-care products daily, exposing him or her to 126 chemicals every day (for many women, the numbers can be higher). This statistic accounts for personal-care products alone—not the chemicals in your foods, environment, or home.

Here are some interesting facts about personal-care products sold in the U.S. marketplace today:

Fact: The Food and Drug Administration unfortunately does not have control over what goes into personal-care products. In fact, the FDA has confirmed its inability to control what goes into them. Essentially, the agency has no oversight with respect to chemical ingredients in products, which means manufacturers can put just about anything they want into them: plasticizers, degreasers, surfactants, carcinogens, reproductive toxins, or endocrine disrupters. [Read more…]

What Health, Wellness and Nutrition Coaches Need to Know About Water (But Likely Don’t)

November 11, 2022 by Liz Carter

What You Need to Know About Our Water Supply

As a health or wellness coach, or even a holistic nutrition coach, you have likely discussed the important aspects of water, hydration, and overall well-being. However, you are about to discover the topic “water” is far more complex when it comes to humans and longevity.

In the United States, our drinking water comes from two sources (unless it is imported from France, Fiji or the like). It comes from above-ground resources like lakes and rivers or from underground aquifers or wells.

When looking at our water supply you must take a step back for a moment and look at what is dumped into our current streams, lakes, rivers, and the natural environment. Industries that regularly dump into our rivers include industrial feed lots, sewage waste and sludge, and factories including fertilizer, chemical, metal, and plastic. The EPA “closely monitors and regulates” these discharges but is run and enforced by individual states and their municipalities (and may not be actively enforced).

Other chemicals found in our water supply come from prescription and over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, hormones, antibiotics, cleaning agents, and other products. Many of these chemicals cannot be completely metabolized by the human body. Also, many are endocrine-disrupting compounds or chemicals (EDCs) that either block or mimic natural hormones, thereby disrupting the normal functioning of organs. The EPA currently does not have any enforceable standards for pharmaceuticals and our water supplies, and our sewage systems are not equipped for pharmaceutical removal. [Read more…]

How Does Living a Green Lifestyle Improve Your Health?

November 10, 2022 by Liz Carter

Which Facts Reveal A “Green Lifestyle” Will Improve Your Health?

We want to inspire change through better living and empower women and individuals to live the change. It’s our intention to demonstrate that living a green lifestyle is merely an extension of healthy living. Living a green lifestyle begins with your personal health and home environment. It’s our intention to bust the myths that going green and organic is expensive, hard to do, and requires you to give up your personal sense of style or make huge sacrifices. That’s B.S., folks! And there’s no need to strive for perfection. If you go for perfect, you’re setting yourself up for failure.

Therefore, we empower our readers to make fun, small, marginal shifts in their everyday lives, all of which contribute to big changes over time. And that’s the intention of our courses: to get you to make reasonable changes in your everyday life that will ultimately improve your health environment and lifestyle. Once you start to clean up your personal space, cleaning up the planet becomes a natural byproduct.

It’s expensive to get sick in the United States (or anywhere)

Let’s face it: We don’t know anyone who can afford to pay their doctor bills out of pocket, much less afford outrageously expensive treatments for serious or terminal illnesses. That’s why we need to take our healthcare into our own hands, become our own health advocates and move into the world of preventive medicine as quickly as possible. [Read more…]

Using Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind to Increase Your Client’s Performance

November 9, 2022 by Liz Carter

What Are the Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind?

The following article is helpful to coaches and consultants who work with clients for sports performance, mindset training, guided imagery, mind-body fitness, and sports psychology coaching.

Understanding these three basic prime directives is not enough. You must also implement these concepts into your practice to increase your client’s chance of enhanced performance. Most hypnotherapists understand these concepts; sadly, few of them implement them. When you choose to utilize these concepts in your hypnosis, you will achieve a class of success that few professional hypnotherapists even experience.

Preservation of the Body

All suggestions should lead toward the preservation of the body. Therefore hypnotherapists have traditionally succeeded so much in smoking and weight loss. Preservation is a logical assumption in these therapies, however, most hypnotherapists do not realize that they should be linking preservation up to all of their client’s goals.

In sports hypnosis, you will have a higher degree of success if you can link up the preservation of the body to the intended outcome. For example: “… Imagine if you will now, winning the gold medal. Beyond the feeling of winning, you realize the potential that now awaits you: from product endorsements to media coverage. All these effects of winning are within your grasp. And by taking these opportunities, your income will grow and provide you the ability to buy healthier foods, higher quality supplements, and receive the best healthcare possible. Who would have ever thought that by winning a gold medal you could become a healthier human, but like a pebble in a pond creating a ripple effect, everything affects everything in life…” [Read more…]

The History of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy

November 9, 2022 by Liz Carter

What is the History of Hypnosis?

Many Sports Psychology Coaches implement aspects of hypnosis and guided imagery for their clients. The following is a comprehensive story of the origins of hypnosis.

Before we explore the uses of hypnosis for your future, we need to look to the past. It is important to understand the history of hypnosis if for no other reason than to be able to communicate to your client in an articulate and intelligent manner. You will hear comments from your potential clients that range from, “Hypnosis is old and out of date…” to “Hypnosis is untested, and too new to risk experimenting with.” The fact is, most people know very little or nothing about hypnosis other than what they have seen in the movies and at night clubs where hypnotists make people bark like dogs or quack like ducks.

The fact is hypnosis has been an accepted form of treatment in the medical communities since 1955 and 1958 through the British Medical Association, and the American Medical Association respectively. This may seem like hypnosis has been accepted by medicine for a very long time, but considering how long hypnosis has been around, it’s surprising that it took so long for the formal institutions to actually recognize it – especially considering that all modern medical practices evolved from one place – hypnosis. [Read more…]

Benefits of Integrating Metabolic Testing Into Your Coaching Practice

November 7, 2022 by Liz Carter

Why is Metabolic Health Important?

The integration of health interventions requires coaches to be well-informed about metabolic health. But the term metabolic health seems to be getting more interest and attention over time and we have wonder why. We’ve become conditioned to so many reality constructs in life, we tend to seek out order in health only when there is a crisis – or, an event. This is another way of saying that health, fitness and wellness is typically prescriptive in most developed countries. This means that it becomes too late to prevent a problem. In this case; medication or invention(s) may be necessary. As coaches, we are on the front lines of helping people sort out changes or problems. In an ideal scene, we would be proactive and help our client manage good, sound, holistic health and wellness. This simply is not our reality, though. We can also work with clients who need more of a prescriptive intervention, but only if and when we are properly trained for such work

Metabolic Testing: What You Get

Metabolic testing has evolved greatly in the past 20 years. Now, consumers can easily get a report on their metabolic function in a fairly quick and easy way. There are a few different ways that metabolism is currently tested. We have the CO2 method, whereby expelled respiratory gases are analyzed to determine how energy is being made and used; we also use the VO2 method but it can often be true that this measure is aimed at assessing athletic performance or responses to physical activity. Coaches can turn this information into a successful eating strategy and trainers can use the data to fuel their client’s metabolism for workouts or times of recovery. [Read more…]

Transform Your Health With These Practical Health Goals

November 3, 2022 by Liz Carter

Simple Health and Fitness Goals For Clients

A goal requires planning — make sure it’s attainable and that you have a clear vision on how to achieve it. The best part about these health goals is that you don’t have to limit them to a specific event or time of year. They can become habits you work toward every day. These practical, achievable health goals could have a long-term impact on your daily habits and help transform your life for the better.

Start Stretching More Often

The benefits are vast and the repercussions of failing to stretch can be dramatic. Do yourself a favor and always stretch before and after a workout. This will promote a healthy cooldown, improve flexibility, and reduce next-day aches. Failure to stretch can lead to injures and muscle damage.

Personal trainers know that flexibility is a vital health-related component of fitness closely linked to function and performance that should be integrated into all fitness programs.

In order for the body to move, muscles have to contract to make the movement occur. Contracting muscles are called agonists and would be known as prime movers. When an agonist contracts, shortens and produces movement, a reciprocating lengthening of its antagonist must also occur simultaneously.

Stretching is an extremely important practice to add to your daily routine to be on your way to better health. Even if you are not planning on exercising vigorously, it is still important to stretch in order to receive multiple benefits for your body and your mind. [Read more…]

What Drives Our Clients’ Dieting Behaviors?

November 2, 2022 by Liz Carter

Clients and Their Diets

For most of our clients, food and diet can be stubborn problems. This is because it has become something other than a source of nourishment, it has instead become an area of conflict and confusion. There are endless weight loss scenarios, eating disorders, cravings, addictions, body image issues, and never-ending searches for what is deemed to be the best nutritional strategy. Even if your client has never suffered from any of these complaints they probably feel overwhelmed by all the books, articles, and “experts“ – each with something different to offer or say. It stands to reason that any client would welcome some clear and useful guidance about eating holistically.

If we were to only study the science of nutrition, eating would appear to be a simple biological process: nutrient intake, digestion, and cellular stimulation. Furthermore, if you were to read a book about dieting, eating is presented as chaotic or a battle. It is almost as if it is us against the calories, us against our body fat and image, and us against our desire to eat certain foods. [Read more…]

Understanding and Reducing Inflammation with Food

November 2, 2022 by Liz Carter

Inflammation is a complex biological response of our body to harmful stimuli and pathogens that consists of five cardinal signs, i.e., Redness, swelling, heat, pain, and loss of function. Inflammation is the body’s defense mechanism against harmful stimuli. It involves various cells of our immune system, including neutrophils, macrophages, monocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes.

What are the Causes of Inflammation?

There are various causes of inflammation that include physical, chemical, biological, and environmental causes.

Physical causes include frostbite, trauma, blunt injury, burns, etc
Environmental causes include splinters, dirt, debris, and ionizing radiation.
Chemical causes include toxins, alcohol, toxic gases like carbon monoxide, etc
Biological causes include pathogens like bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, etc., stress, and hypersensitivity reactions.
Psychological causes include excitement.

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Positive Client Outcomes: Using Appreciative Inquiry in Your Coaching Practice

November 1, 2022 by Liz Carter

How to Apply Appreciative Inquiry

As coaches, we hear this term a lot: appreciative inquiry. It is pretty common to see this referred to as AI but regardless of how it is displayed, it is really common to hear that even some experience coaches do not have a working understanding of the term. Let’s look at ways we can understand appreciative inquiry better so that we can be a better service to our clients.

Origins of Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching

Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a construct of coaching that is borrowed from sources that may surprise you, as its roots are in organizational leadership. Large companies, such as Merck or British Airways have used AI to approach organizational change. In these settings, AI is viewed as a positive approach to improving leadership in its ability to foster strategic innovation. [Read more…]

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