Advancing The Craft Of Health & Wellness Coaching
The Promise of Wellness
Returning from my annual pilgrimage to the National Wellness Conference I’m once again filled with perspective on this effort we are all making to help this world be more well. This was the 35th annual conference and I’ve migrated there for thirty or more of them, as have quite a few of my dear colleagues who I got to see…
The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Five
“I want to slow down!” is a common answer given by travelers asked what they want out of an up coming trip. Slowing down, shifting “pace of life”, de-stressing, unwinding, letting go, and de-contracting are really high on folk’s travel agendas. The continual popularity of destinations like Mexico, Italy, etc., speaks to this desire to live life on a different…
The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Four
Sauntering through Italy, my friend Rob is currently tantalizing me with a torrent of Facebook-posted photos of “La Dolce’ Vita”. I want to be right there at the table with him and his daughter as they behold the meal in the picture above. I really want to be there! Then I think, sure, I’d rather be in Tuscany right now…
The Wellness Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Three
Wellness is a way of living to take with you wherever you go. Living well can also help you get there and make the most of it!
It was three o’clock in the morning and I was just getting to bed at a spa in Europe with a wonderful grin on my face. I had danced with newfound friends…
The Well Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Two
General Well Travel Tips – Part Two
Our last post generated lots of interest in traveling “well”. We’ll be posting more on this theme and on the larger concept of “wellness travel”, that is consciously planning and traveling in a way that enhances our experience in all the dimensions of wellness. Wellness is a whole lot more than hygiene…
The Well Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move!
General Well Travel Tips – Part One
Both ends of my Memorial Day Weekend were all about airports, jets and endurance! This holiday is the unofficial start of the summer season for most folks in the USA, and summer means more travel for everyone across the Northern Hemisphere. As I strategized ways to get through my travel days I…
Wellness of the Heart – Part Two: Unconditional Friendship With One’s Self
How can we hold our own hearts in an embrace that completely lacks judgment and criticism? How can we hold ourselves tenderly with compassion when we stumble, fail, and fall short of perfection? Can we change our default setting from what-is-wrong with us, to what-is-right?
There seems to be a cultural admonition to be self-critical, like we would…
Wellness of The Heart
Some say it is just a muscular pump in the middle of our chest. Others say it is the center and essence of who we are. Seat of all human emotion or cardiovascular electro-stimulated organ, nothing captures our imagination, hopes and fears like our heart.
I love it when science validates what we know “in our hearts”. Research now…
Get a Vision! Motivation that lasts.
What gets you to put on your exercise shoes? What causes you to check out more carefully what you are choosing to eat? What helps you remember to put time for yourself on your calendar? Perhaps it’s a vision, in your mind, of you living a life that is truly healthy and well.
“Why don’t people do what they…
Wellness Coaching Essential Ingredients
Ingredient #1
The Coaching Relationship
Last Fall in Orlando, Florida, key players in the wellness coaching world convened at the Health Coaching Executive Forum, to make sense out of this evolving field (Organized by the World Research Group http://www.worldrg.com/). I was honored to be part of the keynote panel featuring thought leaders from around the country who are…
Simply Centered
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…
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…
Page 13 of 14
