Health Coaching {re} Defined: What health coaching is... And what it s not DATE
What You ll Discover: What health coaching is NOT... and what health coaching is The difference between health coaches and doctors, registered dieticians, nutritionists and therapists What health coaches do better than any other healthcare provider... and why
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What Health Coaching Is NOT Client/ Patient Problem A S S E S S M E N T ACTION STEPS Space where problem is solved Habit Change = + Re-wiring (TCM) + Sustained motivation + Follow-thru Drugs Surgery Labs Food Lifestyle Relationship to Food/Lifestyle
What Health Coaching Is NOT Many kinds of healthcare practitioners, like medical doctors, DOs, chiropractors, registered dieticians, clinical nutritionists spend thousands of hours learning information to become masters of assessment. Click the link below for a description of various roles. A lot of health coaches worry that they have to become one of these professions to really affect change for people.
What Health Coaching Is NOT Client/ Patient Problem A S S E S S M E N T ACTION STEPS Space where problem is solved Habit Change = + Re-wiring (TCM) + Sustained motivation + Follow-thru Drugs Surgery Labs Food Lifestyle Relationship to Food/Lifestyle
What Health Coaching Is NOT But they are forgetting that the knowledge these practitioners have is only as good as what their patients DO with it, which as you know by now is not much!
What Health Coaching Is NOT This is where health coaching finds its place and its value in healthcare. When you understand what your role as health coach is; then your personal confidence will soar. Your role is to become a master of HABIT CHANGE instead of master of ASSESSMENT.
What Health Coaching Is NOT You re becoming the perfect PARTNER to those practitioners because you re someone who can help their patients follow through and get RESULTS Areas where you can - and will - master in assessment as compared to other practitioners (even doctors and dieticians): #1: Essential Nutrition Knowledge This is the distilled top 20% of nutrition knowledge that clients can USE and THANK YOU for. #2: Lifestyle Changes You ll learn how to determine which lifestyle changes will have the biggest impact for your clients.
What Health Coaching Is NOT Areas where you can - will - master in assessment as compared to other practitioners (even doctors and dieticians): #3: RELATIONSHIP to Food, Body, and Lifestyle This is a place where you will master, but you will dominate in your skills in assessment AND in habit change, as compared to all other healthcare practitioners.
What Health Coaching Is NOT Health coaches are the ideal professionals to prevent, manage or reverse what we call the Top 4 Lifestyle Challenges: Lifestyle Challenge : The line become an official DSM V eating disorder and a disordered RELATIONSHIP with eating, food or body, so much so that feeling comfortable in your skin is a DAILY CHALLENGE. Top 4 Lifestyle Challenges: Cravings Chronic Dieting Overeating, Emotional Eating, Compulsive & Binge Eating Body Image Issues
What Health Coaching Is NOT While some lifestyle challenges are improved by changes in nutrition and lifestyle habits, they are - at their core - driven by habitual thought patterns and beliefs. In other words, THEY ARE NOT ABOUT FOOD. To be successful at shifting cravings, chronic dieting, overeating, emotional eating, binge eating and body image issues for yourself and for your clients, you must be skilled at shifting habitual thought patterns and beliefs, so that your clients can overcome these lifestyle challenges even when nothing else they ve tried has worked.
Recap! To recap, lots of health coaching schools are selling a nutrition education, as if they are offering you a secret shortcut to becoming a doctor or nutritionist. But what we ve seen over and over again is that graduates from those kinds of programs feel like frauds, like they don t know enough and can t really help people.
What Health Coaching Is NOT Instead of trying to pretend that you know as much as doctors, registered dieticians, nutritionists, clinical nutritionists or naturopaths, when you graduate from BAHC, you ll understand your value as a MASTER OF HABIT CHANGE so you can work on your own or COLLABORATE with those professionals, which: Adds value to their patients. Creates referral networks and practitioner teams that help patients and clients get amazing results. Has a much bigger impact on lowering the cost of healthcare and increasing the quality of many lives.
What Health Coaching Is NOT When you re a masterful health coach, there are so many career opportunities available to you! You can: Partner with practitioners Have your own solo practice and work from home (or anywhere in the world) Partner with other health coaches Work in doctors offices Work in wellness centers Work in supplement companies Work for health insurance companies who provide health coaching programs to lower their health coaching costs Provide corporations with health coaching and health coaching programs to lower their health coaching costs. And more...!
What Health Coaching IS What s the difference between a health coach and a therapist? Great question! Why.vs. How framework
What Health Coaching IS Truth is that you can t put health in a box, separate from love, money, spirituality, etc. Difference between BAHC and other health coaching schools: Transformational Coaching Method Paradigm: How you do one thing is how you do anything.
The Big 5 The areas in your life that reflect back to you whether you re in alignment with who you truly are, or not. The Big 5 areas of your life are: a. Health b. Money c. Love & Relationships d. Career e. Connection to Something Greater
The Big 5 Because when one of the Big 5 is out of whack, another area will be out of whack too. (Why? Because how you do one thing is how you do everything.) For example, if you re a binge eater, that pattern in your eating might show up in: Your money: you might have credit card debt (spending to try filling a hole, or hunger that is never satisfied). Your love relationships: you might attract partners who make you happy at first, but feel like black holes later (they create drama, are needy and don t have much to give you). Your career: you might constantly jump from career to career, or experience constant dissatisfaction or volatile ups and downs at your workplace. Your connection to something greater: you probably have a very strong intuition, but you eat to shove it down because you re afraid of what it will tell you.
What Health Coaching Is That means that your health coaching clients WILL come to you with problems outside of health and wellness that they need you to help with. That s why you must master a coaching method that allows you to coach your client on ANY topic in their lives.
What Health Coaching IS You MUST have a coaching methodology that can help you change your clients how without having to go deeply into their history or the content of their problem (like a therapist would). AND - because you ll need to learn how to coach on ALL Big 5 topics, this also means you must be willing to work on your OWN Big 5.
What Health Coaching IS Why? Because you can only take a client as far as YOU are willing to go Therefore, health coaching is a journey of personal growth as well as professional growth (so for us personal growth junkies, this is the best career ever!)
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