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2010

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Dr.Michael

What Good Is A Resolution Without A Plan?

The Holidays are a time to practice what we preach about wellness so you haven’t been seeing much activity here. Hope you are enjoying these days in the very best of ways to enhance your well being. ... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Crafting Your Growth In The New Year : The Personal Growth of The Wellness Coach

December’s darkness arrives at about 4:30 pm here in Colorado as we approach the longest night of the year later this month. It’s a time of hunkering down by a fireplace in the Northern Hemisphere and... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Grow In Order To Be Great: The Personal Growth of The Wellness Coach

Personal growth is a lifelong process, and for the wellness coach it is a key component of their professional development as well. I’ll be blunt. If you are afraid of personal growth and change you’re... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Real Souvenirs of Travel, and Returning to Basics By Maria Hodkins

When I posted “Bringing Home Wellness: Souvenirs of Awareness”  it drew a fabulous comment from my good friend, Maria Hodkins, who is an itinerant chef and cooking instructor, . Rather than ... read more..

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Dr.Michael

High Tech Can Dissolve Healthy Boundaries For Business Travelers

More and more jobs are requiring people to engage in travel as a continual part of their work. High tech solutions to communication have made it easier to travel and get the job done, and, to our stre... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Bringing Home Wellness: Souvenirs of Awareness

The gastronomic capital of the world has to be Italy. Everyday life seems to revolve around composing the next meal or, as you travel through the country as a tourist, finding the next market, ristora... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Wellness And Aging Well: Conversation With Donald Ardell – Part Two

In our last post Don Ardell contributed to our conversation on Aging and doing it really Well! Don begins by referring to the study he introduced in our last post. Here’s the conclusion of his thought... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Wellness And Aging Well: Conversation With Donald Ardell

Don Ardell is truly one of the founders of the wellness movement that we can identify as getting in gear in the late 1970’s. His foundational book “High-Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drug... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Age Fabulously! Hey, Why Not?

Our Aging Well conversation is growing each day. Yesterday my new wellness column in The Coloradoan, Fort Collins major newspaper, hit the streets! (http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Aging and Sage-ing Well: A Conversation with Sandy Queen

In late July after The National Wellness Conference, I posed the question in this blog “What is The Promise of Wellness?”. The Promise of Wellness I put the question out personally to some of the... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Dancing In The Moment: Awareness of The Coaching Process/Interaction

Sometimes I find that the coaching I am doing with my  clients flows into a combination of elements in their lives, their own wellness, their businesses, their families and their leadership oppor... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Mindful Embrace: Awareness of The Other

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” -Thich Nhat Hahn When we work as any kind of human helper we are l... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Inner and Outer Awareness: Coaching and Living Mindfully.

Suzanne Ballantyne, Wellness and Health Coach and Yoga Teacher, recently shared this piece below with me and her classmates from her Wellness Mapping 360° training course. “I am taking more anatomy c... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Nine Keys To Readiness For Change And Improving Your Lifestyle

“People don’t change until they are ready to.” James Prochaska Lifestyle improvement is all about change, as we explored in our last post. When it comes to changing our thoughts, beliefs, and our beh... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Change: The Paradox of Fear and Attraction Eight Thoughts for Success at Lifestyle Improvement.

“Change”is such a powerful and loaded term. The very word brings out any number of wildly disparate responses: fear, anticipation, longing, uncertainty, attraction, loss and excitement. Change in atti... read more..

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Dr.Michael

15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf – Part Three

Continuing our “must read” list of vital books for wellness coaches here is the last group, the books focusing on health challenges and wellness coaching itself. Health Challenges 11. Stand Like Mou... read more..

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Dr.Michael

15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf – Part Two

Continuing our “must read” list of vital books for wellness coaches here is the second set, the books focusing on life coaching foundations and skills. Coaching Foundations and Skills 7. Co-Active C... read more..

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Dr.Michael

15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf

What are the “must reads” for the wellness or health coach? These are the books that I have within arm’s reach on my own bookshelf and find myself recommending over and over again to the thousands of ... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Promise of Wellness

Returning from my annual pilgrimage to the National Wellness Conference I’m once again filled with perspective on this effort we are all making to help this world be more well. This was the 35th annua... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Five

“I want to slow down!” is a common answer given by travelers asked what they want out of an up coming trip. Slowing down, shifting “pace of life”, de-stressing, unwinding, letting go, and de-contracti... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Four

Sauntering through Italy, my friend Rob is currently tantalizing me with a torrent of Facebook-posted photos of “La Dolce’ Vita”. I want to be right there at the table with him and his daughter as the... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Three

Wellness is a way of living to take with you wherever you go. Living well can also help you get there and make the most of it! It was three o’clock in the morning and I was just getting to bed at a s... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Well Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Two

General Well Travel Tips – Part Two Our last post generated lots of interest in traveling “well”. We’ll be posting more on this theme and on the larger concept of “wellness travel”, that is conscious... read more..

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Dr.Michael

The Well Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move!

General Well Travel Tips – Part One Both ends of my Memorial Day Weekend were all about airports, jets and endurance! This holiday is the unofficial start of the summer season for most folks in the U... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Wellness of the Heart – Part Two: Unconditional Friendship With One’s Self

How can we hold our own hearts in an embrace that completely lacks judgment and criticism? How can we hold ourselves tenderly with compassion when we stumble, fail, and fall short of perfection? Can w... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Wellness of The Heart

Some say it is just a muscular pump in the middle of our chest. Others say it is the center and essence of who we are. Seat of all human emotion or cardiovascular electro-stimulated organ, nothing cap... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Get a Vision! Motivation that lasts.

What gets you to put on your exercise shoes? What causes you to check out more carefully what you are choosing to eat? What helps you remember to put time for yourself on your calendar? Perhaps it’s a... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Wellness Coaching Essential Ingredients

Ingredient #1 The Coaching Relationship Last Fall in Orlando, Florida, key players in the wellness coaching world convened at the Health Coaching Executive Forum, to make sense out of this evolving f... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Simply Centered

You may not be a martial artist, a trained mediator, or a practitioner of Tai Chi. You may not be a trained athlete whose performance depends on how balanced they are on a ski slope or an ice rink. Yo... read more..

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Dr.Michael

Slimmest City in the Country = Fort Collins, Colorado

When the Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado metro area topped the Gallup Poll research as being the least obese metro area in the United States, those of us who live here were proud, but not very surpris... read more..

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