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title: Boundaries in coaching - Real Balance Certified Health and Wellness Coach Training
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# Boundaries in coaching

## [Clarity on Scope of Practice: The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement](https://realbalance.com/clarity-on-scope-of-practice-the-what-the-how-and-the-why-of-lifestyle-improvement)

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**Health and wellness professionals are sometimes confused about the role each professional might play in helping individuals to live their best life possible.** Our clients are seeking to be healthier by attaining such goals as losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind. To do so they need:
**• excellent**…

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## [Compassionate Detachment](https://realbalance.com/compassionate-detachment)

![2022](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/2022.jpg)

January 2022! Welcome to a New Year and all of its potential. Ready to put the stresses and the tragedies of 2021 in the rearview mirror it’s a time to set intentions for a better year ahead. Hopefully you had some respite over the winter holidays and are ready to charge ahead in a positive way. Yet, the carryover, perhaps…

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## [Healthy Boundaries For Health & Wellness Coaches: Part Two](https://realbalance.com/healthy-boundaries-for-health-wellness-coaches-part-two)

In our last post we featured Part One on this topic:



***A New Code of Ethics For Health & Wellness Coaches: Healthy Boundaries Part One* **  [http://wp.me/pUi2y-kb](http://wp.me/pUi2y-kb)There we introduced the new NCCHWC Code (National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches) and began the discussion of boundaries with a look at ethics, appropriate relationships, touch and self-disclosure…

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## [Wading Into the Lake of Emotion: a Metaphor for Coaches](https://realbalance.com/wading-into-the-lake-of-emotion-a-metaphor-for-coaches)

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Health and Wellness Coaches seek to serve their clients the best they know how. People have been drawn to do this work because they care about people and want to assist them in their journey to living their best life possible. To do this we bring forward our best utilization of coaching competencies, behavioral change theories, evidence-based practices and methodologies.…

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