Your clients will come to you, as a wellness coach, for various reasons. Maybe the client has come to realize that they need and want to start new fitness, wellness, or health related behaviors. Usually, this type of client is very committed to the process. But as we already know, making changes to fitness, wellness or overall health can be challenging for the client. If your client felt that they could be successful on their own, they would probably not be looking for you to help them, or the client may have already been successful making changes and sustaining them.

Emerging research has demonstrated that behavior change is typically seen to be done in what is known as stages. In general, your clients will be in different stages, anywhere from having not even thought about changing behaviors, on through to the stage of trying to maintain a certain behavior. This process also includes thinking about making a change, making plans to change, and using our vision to try different ways to make behavior change work.

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