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title: Personal Growth - 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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# Personal Growth

## [“Well-being” Is Whole-Person Wellness](https://realbalance.com/well-being-is-whole-person-wellness)

![plunging into water](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/wellbeing_page_d.jpg)

**The term “Well-being” may have come along at just the right time.** Public speakers and marketers are re-branding wellness as wellbeing by saying that well-being is more complete, more holistic. Well-being, they say, incorporates the whole person, their environment, their financial picture, their career, etc. On the one hand it’s too bad that we have to invent a new term…

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## [Crafting Your Growth In The New Year : The Personal Growth of The Wellness Coach](https://realbalance.com/crafting-your-growth-in-the-new-year-the-personal-growth-of-the-wellness-coach)

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

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 a good time to reflect on the past year with a hot cup of your favorite brew. It’s also a time when we yearn…

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## [Grow In Order To Be Great: The Personal Growth of The Wellness Coach](https://realbalance.com/grow-in-order-to-be-great-the-personal-growth-of-the-wellness-coach)

![self awareness](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/self-awareness1.jpg)

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 not ready to be a coach.** Do your work. Do your healing if need be, and when you can lovingly embrace your own growth as…

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## [Make Contact With Nature Part of Your Wellness Plan](https://realbalance.com/make-contact-with-nature-part-of-your-wellness-plan)

![bull elk herd](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/bull-elkharemrmnp1.jpg)

Here in Colorado we have one of the ultimate places for outdoor activity and opportunity. Yet, it is easy for many of us to stay so busy that we rarely take advantage of the healthful benefits of contact with the natural world.



**We experientially know that our stress levels go down when we spend more time in nature.** We…

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## [Meaning And Purpose: A Key To Wellness](https://realbalance.com/meaning-and-purpose-a-key-to-wellness)

![the meaning of life quote by Alan Watts](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/the-meaning-of-life-is-just-to-be-alive.png)

Those in the helping professions have long observed that people who have a sense of meaning and purpose appear to do better with their lives in general and their health in particular. Research over the last ten years is showing us that our observations were spot on. **A clear, if even very simple, sense of one’s values, meaning and purpose**…

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## [Seven Expressions Of Courageous Coaching](https://realbalance.com/seven-expressions-of-courageous-coaching)

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

**Courageous coaching! What would “courageous coaching” look like for you?** There are many ways to approach the subject of courage in coaching. As a trainer of wellness & health coaches here are some of the ways I would like to see courage show up for the coaches we educate.



**1. The Courage To Stand For NCRW- Naturally Creative, Resourceful**…

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