Frequently Asked Questions
What is a health coach?
A health coach is a guide and mentor who empowers clients to take responsibility for their own health and supports them to implement and sustain lifestyle and behavior changes that will contribute to the achievement of their personal wellness goals. It's about integrating changes into peoples lives, building on what they've done before and giving them things to try.
What a health coach is not:
A health coach does not take the place of any medical practitioner; rather, serves as the missing link that helps develop strategies to enact real, lasting lifestyle changes. A health coach does not diagnose, treat or takes responsibility for bringing about wellness changes in a client's life; rather guides and supports the development of and progress toward personal wellness goals.
What is a Life Coach?
A life coach helps you to move your life forward and to find fulfillment, success, well-being and happiness to pinpoint the blocks or obstacles that are making you feel “stuck” . A life coach may also guide you through a life transition, such as writing a new chapter for your authentic life. You might call them a “change facilitator” or a “courage catalyst”.
A What a life coach is not:
A life coach is not a therapist however the effects of having a life coach is therapeutic. The focus is on looking toward your future setting 'new normals'. As a life coach we offer you suggestions, new ideas or action steps, listen to you and ask you powerful and thoughtful questions to help you find your path, your truth, and your answers.
Council: (Group) Gathering in circle with centerpiece, talking stick and a safe and nurturing environment. It is not only a means for facilitating heartfelt speaking and listening, but is also a powerful and transformative learning tool.
Rites of Passage: (Group or individual) It is a powerful and life changing experience that marks and honors leaving the past and crossing a threshold into your new life. It was an initiation, a rite of passage, a new birth, a new path.
Fire Ceremony: (Group) Symbolic letting go ceremony for the things that no longer service our lives. We mark this change by writing, weaving, tying, singing, drumming - an expression of what we want to discard into a bonfire to mark before witnesses a beginning of your new path.
A health coach is a guide and mentor who empowers clients to take responsibility for their own health and supports them to implement and sustain lifestyle and behavior changes that will contribute to the achievement of their personal wellness goals. It's about integrating changes into peoples lives, building on what they've done before and giving them things to try.
What a health coach is not:
A health coach does not take the place of any medical practitioner; rather, serves as the missing link that helps develop strategies to enact real, lasting lifestyle changes. A health coach does not diagnose, treat or takes responsibility for bringing about wellness changes in a client's life; rather guides and supports the development of and progress toward personal wellness goals.
What is a Life Coach?
A life coach helps you to move your life forward and to find fulfillment, success, well-being and happiness to pinpoint the blocks or obstacles that are making you feel “stuck” . A life coach may also guide you through a life transition, such as writing a new chapter for your authentic life. You might call them a “change facilitator” or a “courage catalyst”.
A What a life coach is not:
A life coach is not a therapist however the effects of having a life coach is therapeutic. The focus is on looking toward your future setting 'new normals'. As a life coach we offer you suggestions, new ideas or action steps, listen to you and ask you powerful and thoughtful questions to help you find your path, your truth, and your answers.
Council: (Group) Gathering in circle with centerpiece, talking stick and a safe and nurturing environment. It is not only a means for facilitating heartfelt speaking and listening, but is also a powerful and transformative learning tool.
Rites of Passage: (Group or individual) It is a powerful and life changing experience that marks and honors leaving the past and crossing a threshold into your new life. It was an initiation, a rite of passage, a new birth, a new path.
Fire Ceremony: (Group) Symbolic letting go ceremony for the things that no longer service our lives. We mark this change by writing, weaving, tying, singing, drumming - an expression of what we want to discard into a bonfire to mark before witnesses a beginning of your new path.