What are the Pillars of Wellness and Holism?

March 11, 2021 by Liz Carter

What are the Pillars of Wellness and Holism?

The word holism denotes interconnectivity. A holistic lifestyle means understanding the importance of various factors in health, and how they are interconnected. It means that for a healthy lifestyle, one needs to take multiple steps.

Holism vs Conventional Medicine

Holistic health or a holistic lifestyle is often neglected in conventional medicine, which focuses on signs and symptoms and treating disease conditions. However, a holistic lifestyle forms the basis of most traditional forms of medicine. [Read more…]

Benefits of Introducing Corporate Wellness Programs

March 3, 2020 by Liz Carter

Benefits of Introducing Corporate Wellness Programs

As the interest in wellness has continued to grow, so does coaching. Corporate wellness coaches are now used in business, for career development to develop leaders and to develop character for clients who are trying to become architects of healthy, rewarding lives.

Over the past several decades, corporate wellness has seen a wealth of evidence that proves the benefits of a healthy workforce. The results are undeniable: Companies that incorporate wellness programs see a return on investment of as much as $10.00 for everyone one dollar spent – and that is just in traditionally measurable results alone (48). Corporate wellness also shows improvements in areas like: [Read more…]

Lessons Learned from the Fitness Industry

May 31, 2019 by Liz Carter

Wellness and fitness are very closely related. In the fitness industry, personal trainers have been refining the art of listening to their clients in order to get the client toward a certain fitness goal (although this can be limited to just fitness) and therefore provide the example for how continued improvements in the wellness coaching processes can be realized under the umbrella of behavior change.

Fitness professionals tend to ask themselves, “How can we get better results for our clients in the fitness industry?”

It seems that fitness professionals are always working to understand and meet the needs of the general population, and this works hand-in-hand with wellness concepts. [Read more…]

Career Development Paths for Health and Wellness Coaches

May 28, 2019 by Liz Carter

According to a survey by The National Center for Health Statistics, 36% of all consumers in the United States are using some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), including wellness coaching services.

Breaking down some of the components of CAM would reveal more of the trends that consumers are revealing about their interests. This includes herbs and herbal medications, meditation, chiropractic care, yoga, massage, or diet-based therapies. All of these topics are also complementary to wellness coaching, for a wellness coach who has experience in these particular fields.

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The Growth of Coaching and Corporate Wellness Coaching

May 22, 2019 by Liz Carter

In America, our lifestyle is sometimes determined by what we do for work because most weekdays we spend anywhere from 8 to 12 hours working.

In somewhat of a trend that we still see gaining momentum, some larger Fortune 500 companies have come to realize the value of maintaining the health of their employees in order to manage health care costs.

So it then follows, if wellness coaching is effective at implementing effective ways to change lifestyle behaviors, then the need is clearly seen in terms of how valuable a wellness coach can be toward impacting lifestyle behavior change within corporate environments.

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