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What Are the Best Career Opportunities for Wellness Coaches?

June 22, 2022 by Liz Carter

Should You Become A Wellness Coach?

best ways to build a successful practice as a wellness coach

The importance of health and wellness has become evident after the hard times of Covid-19, where everyone was forced to pay attention to themselves in a way unlike any other. In the unhealthy competitive space, the most crucial health was being ignored, but now the tides are changing. Consumers want to spend a high buck to learn about wellness and health for themselves and their loved ones.

The above 2 terms are generally misunderstood to be strictly in the domain of physical fitness and would hence involve gruesome exercise, but that couldn’t be farther away from the truth. Physical fitness is a part of overall wellness. Wellness involves the below-mentioned activities: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: health coaching, health industry growth, how to become a health coach, how to become a wellness coach, wellness coaching

What is the Difference between a Wellness Coach and a Health Coach?

August 25, 2021 by Liz Carter

What is the Difference between a Wellness Coach and a Health Coach?

Ever look at the job titles of each of these and wonder how they differ? Don’t health coaches and wellness coach do the same things and have the same scope? There’s great variability between job titles – even if the scope is the same or has overlap with another professional title.

What is a wellness coach?

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: corporate wellness coaching, health coaching, how to become a health coach, how to become a wellness coach, wellness coaching, wellness coaching certification for personal trainers

Strategies for Staying Healthy and Keeping Your Immune System Strong

August 17, 2021 by Liz Carter

Strategies for Staying Healthy and Keeping Your Immune System Strong

The immune system is influenced by a number of factors, and we need a well-structured plan when trying to strengthen it. In order to boost the immune system, we need to exercise regularly, eat a well-balanced diet, manage stress, get enough sleep, and reduce exposure to environmental pollutants and products with harsh ingredients. Remember, a healthy lifestyle is equal to strong immunity.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: health coaching, health tips, healthy living, immunity, string immune system, wellness coaching

Helping Your Clients Improve Heart Health

July 15, 2021 by Liz Carter

Helping Your Clients Improve Heart Health

Heart disease remains the leading cause of mortality in the US. One-fourth of all deaths occur due to a heart problem. Each year about 610 000 people die of the condition, and half of them die due to coronary artery disease caused by arterial plaques. Total deaths due to cardiovascular diseases are around 859 000 when we add deaths related to stroke to these numbers. Another, 735 000 Americans have a heart attack each year.

Most people are aware of the symptoms of the condition like chest pain and discomfort, pain in the arm, stomach, shortness of breath, nausea, dizziness, cold sweats, and so on.

Heart disease may occur due to many reasons, and most of these causes are modifiable and preventable. High blood pressure remains the most significant contributor to heart disease, followed by high cholesterol and smoking. Other underlying causes of cardiovascular diseases are diabetes, obesity, poor diet, physical inactivity, and alcohol abuse.

Are Heart Diseases Preventable?

Not all heart attacks are avoidable, but a considerable number of them can be prevented or delayed by several years with mere lifestyle interventions. After all, 80% of all heart diseases are due to preventable reasons. CDC says that about 200,000 deaths each year are preventable through lifestyle modification, and in many more cases, such events can be delayed significantly.

Heart health can be improved by non-pharmacological means is a proven fact and not just an opinion. From 1972 to 1992, just in a period of 20 years, Finland was able to reduce mortality due to coronary heart disease by as much as 80%. Ireland reduced mortality due to heart disease by 48.1% from 1985 to 2000.

Treating with Medications and Lifestyle Changes

Many people may think that taking a statin or low-dose aspirin may help prevent a heart attack. However, they are partially wrong. Lifestyle changes are the primary way to prevent cardiovascular diseases, and medications are just adjuncts. No, medication can help as exercise, dietary corrections, quitting smoking, and so on. In fact, medications may not even work if such changes are not carried out. This means that natural methods are superior in prevention to pharmacological drugs.

Regretfully, many people think that medications alone can save them. One of the reasons for such a mindset is that popping up a pill or two a day is much more comfortable than sweating out for an hour in a gym, or planning a diet, cooking at home, and so on.

This is not to say that medications have no value in preventing heart diseases, but they should always be used along with lifestyle interventions. Undoubtedly, controlling blood pressure, diabetes, dyslipidemia, with the help of medications, will make a considerable difference.

Preventing heart disease, improving heart health naturally, will only work when one combines a number of elements into the disease prevention program. Doing one of two things will still help, but not as much as one would like. So, healthy heart program should include dietary changes, daily exercise, stress management, reducing substance abuse, and so on. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: health coaching, heart health, how to become a health, techniques for improving heart health, wellness coaching

The Importance of Relatability as a Professional Coach

August 20, 2020 by Liz Carter

Why Relatability is Important as a Coach

As coaches, we know that we have a specific role and function in support of our clients who are trying to be healthy and well.  We also know that we are part of something bigger – a service to the global community that is constantly trying to maintain optimal wellness.  With this task, we are usually working one-on-one in session, as we encourage and support each client on a journey of behavior changes, and all that is required to be well. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: coaching business, coaching tactics, coaching tips, health coaching, online coaching, professional coaching career, wellness coaching

Why is it Important to Coach Clients to Reduce Stress?

December 16, 2014 by John

For thousands of years, people believed that stress made you sick. Up until the nineteenth century, the idea that the passions and emotions were intimately linked to disease held weight, and people were told by their doctors to go to spas or seaside resorts when they were ill. Gradually these ideas lost favor as more concrete causes and cures were found for illness after illness. But in the last decade, scientists like Dr. Esther Sternberg, director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program at NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have been re- discovering the links between the brain and the immune system. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: health coaching, stress management coaching, wellness coaching

Coaching Clients Through the Pain of Regain

December 5, 2014 by John

 The holidays are here!  This is the time we reconnect with family and friends and celebrate.  It’s a busy time that can prevent us from staying focused on our healthy lifestyle and fitness routine.  We eat foods generally reserved for these special occasions and have a few (extra) wonderful holiday drinks.  This time with others nourishes our souls which is so important! Unfortunately, it is also responsible for an average weight gain of between 5-8 pounds.  Once the holidays are over, it’s time to get back to our regular diet and fitness routines. This is when we will see the client’s that need a kick start or just validation that they are back on track with their fitness routines and healthy eating.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: health coaching, nutrition coaching, wellness coaching

The Social Aspect of Wellness Coaching and Why It Matters

November 20, 2014 by John

The social component to wellness is one of the more significant parts of your client’s profile that is most directly under the influence of behavior and personality. In this dimension of wellness, your client takes a direct part in how they shape their world and how they manage lifestyle factors, such as interpersonal communications, meaningful relationships and important friendships for themselves. In doing so, they build wellness into their lifestyle.

 

For your client, social wellness includes those supportive, intimate relationships, as well as fostering a general connection with everyone within their social group. It’s also about learning how to balance social living with personal life pursuits.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: corporate wellness strategies, family wellness coaching, health coaching

Student Success Stories

Becoming a Certified Life Strategies Coach at the Spencer Institute has been a great way for me to grow my coaching business. I really liked that I could work full time while learning life coaching on my own time schedule. Now I have coaching clients, and also attract more psychotherapy clients who choose me because I can offer coaching in addition to psychotherapy.
Jeanne Asma
www.JeanneAsma.com
Earning the Spencer Institute's Wellness Coach Certification was an excellent addition to existing education and experience. I now have a highly successful blog, healthy cooking business, cook books and much more. The sky is the limit.
Melissa Costello
www.KarmaChow.com
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