What is wellness coaching?
Acknowledging our challenges and limitations and when we need support to make changes to feel better is hugely empowering – rather than a weakness, as society would have us believe. We all need and deserve respect, support, and increased tools. We would all benefit from knowing and tending to ourselves better. Now more than ever.
Sometimes you know you want help but psychotherapy isn’t quite the thing. Maybe you want to feel better without necessarily delving too much into the past and your “story”. Maybe you want clear goals and actionable steps. Maybe you want more structure, guidance, or accountability. Wellness coaching is present-to-future focused. It helps you get clear on your health and wellness goals and involves assessing current situation, personal strengths and creating actionable plans.
As a wellness and lifestyle coach I combine my extensive training in integrative psychology and the mind-body system with motivational interviewing to collaboratively create a personalized wellness plan based on your goals. By “wellness” I mean your personal journey toward improving your mental, physical, social, career and lifestyle aspects of your life. And I don’t just help you create the plan, I help you actually achieve and even surpass your goals!
Areas of focus could include: stress management, improved relationship with your body, nutrition, herbs for wellness, movement, healthy relationships, work-life balance, career development, and lifestyle improvements. It could even include growing more of your healthy food and herbal medicine!
The mind and body are inextricably connected. Everything that has ever happened to us is filtered through – and often gets stuck in – our bodies. Returning to a state of equilibrium helps the mind-body regain its natural healing potential.
Sessions are personalized for your needs.
“We are biologically equipped with innate instincts for healing and self preservation…When these instincts get interrupted by trauma or ongoing stress, then our whole foundation is upset, and with it the free flow of [healing] energy”. -Anodea Judith