--- title: Wellness - 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 ## [2010-2020 A Decade of Growth for Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/2010-2020-a-decade-of-growth-for-wellness-coaching) ![Real Balance Wellness Class](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/Real-Balance-Global-Wellness-class.jpg) **After years of building a foundation, health and wellness coaching has flourished in the last decade.** At the beginning of this last decade the International Coach Federation was only fifteen years old and the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching hadn’t even been thought of yet. My book, [*Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change*](https://wholeperson.com/store/wellness-coaching-for-lasting-lifestyle-change.shtml), had been on the… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/2010-2020-a-decade-of-growth-for-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 Emotions for Better Lifestyle Choices](https://realbalance.com/coaching-emotions-for-better-lifestyle-choices) ![2 people in the forest](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/two-people-forest.jpg) Check out the best in Health Coach Training: [www.realblance.com](https://realbalance.com/) Lifestyle behavioral change is not simply a rational process. Emotions influence or sometimes completely determine the outcome of decisions we are confronted with every day. ***When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.*** [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/coaching-emotions-for-better-lifestyle-choices) ## [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) ## [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) ## [Getting Yourself Out Of The Way: The Self-Vigilant Coach – Part Two – Projection In Health & Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/getting-yourself-out-of-the-way-the-self-vigilant-coach-part-two-projection-in-health-wellness-coaching) ![Projection – A Freudian Classic](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/freud-caricatureopenhead.jpg) Our previous blog post: *Getting Yourself Out Of The Way: The Self-Vigilant Coach – Part One* ([https://wp.me/pUi2y-mu](https://wp.me/pUi2y-mu))  explored the many ways in which the coach can interfere in the coaching process and “get in the way” of the client’s own coaching work. Our own agendas, attitudes, beliefs, prejudices, projections and unfinished emotional business can all impede the coaching… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/getting-yourself-out-of-the-way-the-self-vigilant-coach-part-two-projection-in-health-wellness-coaching) ## [Health and Wellness Coaching Trends for the New Decade](https://realbalance.com/health-and-wellness-coaching-trends-for-the-new-decade) ![hourglass time](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/hourglass-time.jpeg) **Health and Wellness Coaching Trends for the New Decade** Only now that we have put 2020 in the rearview mirror does it seem like we are moving ahead into a new decade.  Who knows what moniker we will come up with for this century’s version of “the twenties”, unlike the “Roaring Twenties” of the 1900’s. **So, what lies ahead,**… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/health-and-wellness-coaching-trends-for-the-new-decade) ## [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) ## [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… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/healthy-boundaries-for-health-wellness-coaches-part-two) ## [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) ## [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) ## [Self-Disclosure in Coaching – When Sharing Helps and Hinders.](https://realbalance.com/self-disclosure-in-coaching-when-sharing-helps-and-hinders) ![masks](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/masks.jpg) We’re working with our coaching client and something they bring up reminds us of a relevant experience in our own lives. We feel empathy, we can relate. Do we share about our own experience with the client? Self-disclosure is a powerful part of human communication and a conscious technique that has been studied in therapy, counseling and coaching since the… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/self-disclosure-in-coaching-when-sharing-helps-and-hinders) ## [Slimmest City in the Country = Fort Collins, Colorado](https://realbalance.com/slimmest-city-in-the-country-fort-collins-colorado) When the Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado metro area topped the Gallup Poll research as being the least obese metro area in the United States, those of us who live here were proud, but not very surprised. It is evident that things are a bit different here…in a good way. Gallup found that there are huge disparities across our nation when… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/slimmest-city-in-the-country-fort-collins-colorado) ## [Social Distancing – Not Social Isolation: Coaching for Connectedness in the age of COVID-19](https://realbalance.com/social-distancing-not-social-isolation-coaching-for-connectedness-in-the-age-of-covid-19) ![social distancing](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/social-distancing-coronavirus1-articlelarge.jpg) **We all still need each other. Even in the age of COVID-19, our health continues to depend upon healthy supportive relationships**. Real Balance https://realbalance.com has always stressed what we call *Coaching for Connectedness*.  We‘ve seen lifestyle improvement occur and last more often when people receive support for the changes they are making to live healthier lives.  When a… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/social-distancing-not-social-isolation-coaching-for-connectedness-in-the-age-of-covid-19) ## [Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 3 Accountability and Support](https://realbalance.com/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-3-accountability-and-support) ![woman at desk with laptop](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/woman-desk-laptop.jpeg) **This is the third of a three-part series on Coaching Structure.** In our [first blog](https://realbalance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=437&catid=127&Itemid=6040) we showed how a coach can use structure by **Co-Creating The Agenda** for the session to get off to a great start. In our second blog – Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – [Part 2 Process and Progress](https://realbalance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438&catid=127&Itemid=6040) we explored how effective processing leads to… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/structuring-great-wellness-coaching-sessions-part-3-accountability-and-support) ## [Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part Two – Inner Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement – I by Dr. Michael Arloski.](https://realbalance.com/ten-ways-to-coach-through-barriers-to-change-part-two-inner-barriers-to-lifestyle-improvement-i-by-dr-michael-arloski) ![trapped bars](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/trapped-bars.jpg) Your client has their motivation to be healthy and well energized, they’ve checked out their readiness for improving their lifestyle and, perhaps, with your help, they’ve even gotten a real wellness plan lined out.**So, what is getting in their way of taking action and living that healthy lifestyle?** Chances are they will encounter some external barriers like schedule changes… [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/ten-ways-to-coach-through-barriers-to-change-part-two-inner-barriers-to-lifestyle-improvement-i-by-dr-michael-arloski) ## [The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement](https://realbalance.com/the-what-the-how-and-the-why-of-lifestyle-improvement) ![Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, CWP, NBC-HWC](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/arloski.mike_.1506_pp.jpg) **Health and wellness folks 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 losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind.  To do so they need: - *excellent wellness information* - … [Read more …](https://realbalance.com/the-what-the-how-and-the-why-of-lifestyle-improvement)