Advancing The Craft Of Health & Wellness Coaching
Nine Keys To Readiness For Change And Improving Your Lifestyle
“People don’t change until they are ready to.”
James Prochaska
Lifestyle improvement is all about change, as we explored in our last post. When it comes to changing our thoughts, beliefs, and our behavior, the big question immediately becomes “How ready are you to change?”. The answer is not a simple yes or no, and extensive theories have arisen…
Change: The Paradox of Fear and Attraction Eight Thoughts for Success at Lifestyle Improvement.
“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…
15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf – Part Three
Continuing our “must read” list of vital books for wellness coaches here is the last group, the books focusing on health challenges and wellness coaching itself.
Health Challenges
11. Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water, Brian Luke Seaward
12. The Open Heart Companion, Maggie Lichtenberg
13. Facing The Lion, Being The Lion, Mark Nepo
Wellness Coaching
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15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf – Part Two
Continuing our “must read” list of vital books for wellness coaches here is the second set, the books focusing on life coaching foundations and skills.
Coaching Foundations and Skills
7. Co-Active Coaching, Whitworth, Kimsey-House & Sandahl
8. Becoming a Professional Life Coach, Williams & Menendez
9. Leadership From The Inside Out, Kevin Cashman
10. Taming Your Gremlin, Rick…
15 Vital Books For The Wellness Coach: Straight Off My Shelf
What are the “must reads” for the wellness or health coach? These are the books that I have within arm’s reach on my own bookshelf and find myself recommending over and over again to the thousands of wellness coaches that I train and mentor.
What I want to share with you are books that will influence the way you…
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…
