--- title: Wellness 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. --- # Wellness Coaching ## [Beginner’s Mind in All Your Human Interactions](https://realbalance.com/beginners-mind-and-coaching) ![Beginner’s Mind in All Your Human Interactions](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/hands.jpeg) ***“Most of us live inside accumulated conclusions.** We assume we know who a person is because of what they did yesterday. We predict how a conversation will unfold because of how similar conversations have gone before. Our history rushes in to interpret the present before the present has fully arrived. In doing so, we mistake recognition for understanding. **Beginner’s mind***… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/beginners-mind-and-coaching) ## [Bringing Home Wellness: Souvenirs of Awareness](https://realbalance.com/bringing-home-wellness-souvenirs-of-awareness) ![peccorino](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/peccorino1.jpg) 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, ristorante, or trattoria. A long-awaited vacation to Italy with my wife, Deborah, and our dear friends Carolyn and Donnie, created many wonderful memories, and also… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/bringing-home-wellness-souvenirs-of-awareness) ## [Busting Out of Precontemplation: TTM and Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/busting-out-of-precontemplation-ttm-and-wellness-coaching) ![James and Janice Prochaska](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/prochaskas-m.jpg) James and Janice Prochaska were kind enough to edit the section of my new book ***Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft***[*https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html*](https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html) that conveys how coaches can make use of their model for behavioral change – **The Transtheoretical Model**. I am deeply grateful to them for this. While many coaches are familiar with their work on the… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/busting-out-of-precontemplation-ttm-and-wellness-coaching) ## [Change: The Paradox of Fear and Attraction Eight Thoughts for Success at Lifestyle Improvement.](https://realbalance.com/change-the-paradox-of-fear-and-attraction-eight-thoughts-for-success-at-lifestyle-improvement) ![Success at Lifestyle Improvement](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/choose-big2.jpg) **“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 attitude, and belief yielding change in behavior, or more specifically health and wellness behavior is what we’re after. Yet if the very idea of change is at all scary, isn’t that… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/change-the-paradox-of-fear-and-attraction-eight-thoughts-for-success-at-lifestyle-improvement) ## [Coach Like Hemingway: Confident, Succinct, Effective](https://realbalance.com/coach-like-hemingway-confident-succinct-effective) ![typewriter](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/h-typewriter-1.jpg) *Use short sentences.  Use short paragraphs.  Use vigorous English.  Be positive, not negative.*  Opening lines from 110 Stylistic Rules given to each reporter by the Kansas City Star where Hemingway got his first job in journalism (1917). Ernest Hemingway certainly picked up on those dictums and put them to good use over an extraordinary career as a writer.  When we think of these… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/coach-like-hemingway-confident-succinct-effective) ## [Coaching for Connectedness – Part One: Why it’s Important](https://realbalance.com/the-importance-of-coaching-for-connectedness) ![Coaching for Connectedness – Part One: Why it’s Important](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/Group_Mountain.jpeg)   ***Connection is the currency of wellness.*** ***Jack Travis, M.D.*** * * We are a curious species to have made it from when *homo sapiens* first appeared to where we are today.  There were many branches to our evolutionary family tree and looking at our branch we weren’t the strongest, or fastest.  Our teeth are puny, and our nails… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/the-importance-of-coaching-for-connectedness) ## [Coaching for Connectedness – Part Two: How to Coach for Greater Connection and Belonging](https://realbalance.com/coaching-for-connectedness---part-two-coaching-for-greater-connection) ![Coaching for Connectedness – Part Two: How to Coach for Greater Connection and Belonging](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_582239379.jpeg) *Connection is the currency of wellness.* *Jack Travis, M.D.* In my previous blog, **Coaching for Connectedness – Part One: Why It’s Important **([https://realbalance.com/the-importance-of-coaching-for-connectedness](https://realbalance.com/the-importance-of-coaching-for-connectedness)) we demonstrated how healthcare research has shown the growing “epidemic” of **isolation and loneliness** to be revealed as **a major health risk** influencing such conditions as cancer, heart disease, depression and addiction.  We showed… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/coaching-for-connectedness---part-two-coaching-for-greater-connection) ## [Coaching Habits That Can Take Away From Your Effectiveness](https://realbalance.com/coaching-habits-that-can-take-away-from-your-effectiveness) ![practice good habits sign](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/practice-good-habits-sign.jpg) The longer we do anything the more we fall into habits. Habits are time savers. They help us avoid making our lives more complex than they need to be. They often are shortcuts that help us to experience less stress and get things done, sometimes quite efficiently. Doing certain things by rote can serve us well. Health and wellness coaches… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/coaching-habits-that-can-take-away-from-your-effectiveness) ## [Coaching With a Positive Psychology Approach to Wellness Motivation Using PERMA-V](https://realbalance.com/coaching-with-a-positive-psychology-approach-to-wellness-motivation-using-perma-v) ![Coaching With a Positive Psychology Approach to Wellness Motivation Using PERMA-V](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/IMG_0658.jpg) *We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.* Peter F. Drucker   As a psychologist I’ve often been asked by professionals in the healthcare and health promotion fields ***“How do you motivate these people?”***  I’ve never liked that question.  The use of the term *‘these people’* often meant the person… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/coaching-with-a-positive-psychology-approach-to-wellness-motivation-using-perma-v) ## [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… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/crafting-your-growth-in-the-new-year-the-personal-growth-of-the-wellness-coach) ## [FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS: The Art of Keeping Your Client on Track](https://realbalance.com/focus-focus-focus-the-art-of-keeping-your-client-on-track) ![FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS: The Art of Keeping Your Client on Track](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_131967313_2_Medium.jpeg) **Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.** **Steve Jobs**   What keeps a coaching session from being as productive as possible?  While you can point the finger at a number of factors, **lack of focus** on the part of the client is often one.  Coaching sessions that meander, that drift off into tangents, down rabbit holes… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/focus-focus-focus-the-art-of-keeping-your-client-on-track) ## [Health Misinformation and Health & Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/health-misinformation-and-health-wellness-coaching) ![Health Misinformation and Health & Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_1759019787_Medium.jpeg) ***“May you live in interesting times!”*** is an old Chinese curse, they say.  Political instability, healthcare crisis, AI anxiety, the health misinformation “infodemic”,  and lots more concerns surround us.  Interesting indeed!  As we head into a new year how can we do our best to see what’s coming at us and sift out what are true concerns worthy of our attention and what is… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/health-misinformation-and-health-wellness-coaching) ## [High Tech Can Dissolve Healthy Boundaries For Business Travelers](https://realbalance.com/high-tech-can-dissolve-healthy-boundaries-for-business-travelers) ![airplane traveling](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/airplane-wing-traveling.jpg) 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 stress-level’s demise, travel and never get away from working on that job.** As I flew from Newark to Denver on the way back… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/high-tech-can-dissolve-healthy-boundaries-for-business-travelers) ## [How Integrating Motivational Interviewing with the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Can Make Your Coaching Better](https://realbalance.com/how-integrating-motivational-interviewing-with-the-transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change-can-make-your-coaching-better) ![How Integrating Motivational Interviewing with the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Can Make Your Coaching Better](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/Bill__Michael.jpeg) ***“In a way, what Motivational Interviewing was thought to do in the beginning was to help people become ready. In the addiction field we were blaming people for not getting better, saying ‘well, come back when you’re ready.’  Well, we don’t do that with cancer.  That’s not good enough.  So, what can you do if a person doesn’t seem to be ready?  Well, that’s***… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/how-integrating-motivational-interviewing-with-the-transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change-can-make-your-coaching-better) ## [LOVE and HEART HEALTH: Coaching for Connection](https://realbalance.com/love-and-heart-health-coaching-for-connection) ![heart cave](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/heart-cave.jpg) ***“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.”*** *From the Song “Nature Boy” – lyrics by eden ahbez, recorded originally by Nat King Cole, sung by David Bowie in the movie Moulin Rouge* There is the **biological heart** that pumps our blood and keeps us alive.  There is also what cardiologist Sandeep… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/love-and-heart-health-coaching-for-connection) ## [Making Resolutions Means You Are Contemplating, Now, to Maintain Them!](https://realbalance.com/resolutions-and-coaching) ![Making Resolutions Means You Are Contemplating, Now, to Maintain Them!](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_935168604.jpeg)   Our common belief is that resolutions made at the beginning of the New Year usually fail, so why make them?  As James Prochaska was fond of saying, ***intending to change and changing are not the same thing***.  Yet isn’t setting good intentions a good thing?   **Setting Intentions** Setting intentions means you are considering a change.  You… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/resolutions-and-coaching) ## [Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft A New Book by Dr. Michael Arloski, coming in 2020](https://realbalance.com/masterful-health-wellness-coaching-deepening-your-craft-a-new-book-by-dr-michael-arloski-coming-in-2020) ![Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, CWP, NBC-HWC](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/arloski.mike_.1506_pp.jpg) *The profession of health and wellness coaching is fully engaged in a process of transformation. As we grow to be of service to wellness programs, lifestyle medicine practices, employee assistance programs, insurance carriers, disease management companies, and all manner of healthcare providers, around the globe, the demand for greater quality coaching only builds.**We are moving from a need for*… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/masterful-health-wellness-coaching-deepening-your-craft-a-new-book-by-dr-michael-arloski-coming-in-2020) ## [Retreat, Review, Renew and Rewrite The New Year Now](https://realbalance.com/retreat-review-renew-and-rewrite-the-new-year-now) ![New Year Photo by M. Arloski](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/snowdawngold.jpg) The ancient Celtic Calendar rings in the New Year at the very end of October with the holiday of Samhain. Looking at a Northern European year’s climate through largely agricultural eyes this makes perfect sense. The last of the harvest is done and it’s time to prepare for winter and a long rest for the land. **For the self-reflective**… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/retreat-review-renew-and-rewrite-the-new-year-now) ## [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**… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/seven-expressions-of-courageous-coaching) ## [Simply Centered](https://realbalance.com/simply-centered) ![Tai Chi Centering practice](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/tai-chi-lakemtn.jpg) 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. You may not be a professional dancer whose moves reflect what appears to be effortless grace. So, you may not be… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/simply-centered)