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title: Barriers - Real Balance Certified Health and Wellness Coach Training
description: Get certified as a health and wellness coach with Real Balance. Comprehensive training and certification designed for wellness and healthcare professionals.
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# Barriers

## [Ten Steps To Forward The Action In Your Life](https://realbalance.com/ten-steps-to-forward-the-action-in-your-life)

![Irish Steps](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/irish-steps.jpg)

In the coaching process we listen, clarify and help our clients explore their lives, taking stock of their current life situation and health status. Eventually we have to go beyond our basic listening skills, summarizing and helping our client get very clear about where they currently are. **At that point we help them get clear about what they are ready**…

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## [Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part One – Outer Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement by Dr. Michael Arloski.](https://realbalance.com/ten-ways-to-coach-through-barriers-to-change-part-one-outer-barriers-to-lifestyle-improvement-by-dr-michael-arloski)

![barbed wire](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/barbedwire.jpg)

**A key part of effective coaching is helping our clients to find a way over, under, around and through the barriers that get between them and their goals.** The best-laid wellness plans are inevitably challenged by some combination of “life getting in the way”, lack of environmental support, or sometimes even the “push-back” resistance from peers.



The other side…

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## [Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part Two – Inner Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement – II by Dr. Michael Arloski.](https://realbalance.com/ten-ways-to-coach-through-barriers-to-change-part-two-inner-barriers-to-lifestyle-improvement-ii-by-dr-michael-arloski)

![mountain](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/nokhu11.jpg)

**6. Practice Extreme Self-Care**



Many times coaches and clients co-create a wonderful set of self-care action steps that the client knows will help them to be healthier and well. Then, on the next coaching appointment, the client confesses that they held back from doing almost all of the actions agreed upon. The coaching conversation then reveals that the client…

[Read more …](https://realbalance.com/ten-ways-to-coach-through-barriers-to-change-part-two-inner-barriers-to-lifestyle-improvement-ii-by-dr-michael-arloski)