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title: Strategic Coaching - 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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# Strategic Coaching

## [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…

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