Is your life like an impending train wreck? Do you have a high pressure job, where you have to constantly meet challenging deadlines? Do you feel like there’s never enough time in the day to do it all? Do you feel stressed out and no one cares? Are you overweight and need help getting fit? Do you have a family history of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer and know if you don’t change your lifestyle you, too, will experience these maladies? Are you ready to make that positive change?
Hello everyone, my name is Athena Blue and I’m a registered nurse and health coach. My passion is to help create a healthier America, one person at a time, and health coaching is my vehicle.
But first thing first, what is a health coach? What do they do and how do they help people? Good question!
A Health Coach is a supportive wellness consultant and mentor who encourages individuals to promote positive health choices. They also primarily support clients to achieve their health goals through education, lifestyle and behavior modifications. So they can help you:
- Identify your goals (health/wellness/personal)
- Create a purposeful one-step-at-a-time action plan to reach your goals
- Improve self-management of your health
- Learn how to remain self-motivated
However, they do not tell you what your goals should be, but rather show you how to reach them. A health coach knows that the solution for the client’s concern lies within him/her and by working together the health coach guides the client to bring that solution to light, thereby, empowering the client. So they can become an empowered individual. What is an empowered individual? They are the individuals who are positive and action-oriented, and can now make the necessary changes for improved health/wellness and personal achievement.
They also guide others to tackle their health/wellness issues, and make positive behavioral changes to improve health through the use of goal setting, obstacle identification and resolution, and personal support systems.
The concept of health coaching is rapidly gaining acceptance nation-wide. As preventative care is being given more awareness, health coaching is seen as a fundamental feature to creating healthy lifestyle changes. A growing number of consumers, employers and healthcare institutions are discovering that coaches can make a difference in the areas of education and prevention, unlike traditional practitioners. Also, unlike a traditional practitioner, a health coach gives his/her client 45-50 minutes of focused ‘it’s all about you’ time.
Look for more articles on nutrition, wellness and healthy lifestyles from me on Modern Chic Magazine. Please feel free to email me at abluehealthcoach@gmail.com with any questions or topics of interest you’d like addressed regarding health, wellness and nutrition.
A Gift To You
Health and Wellness Coach Athena Blue is currently offering all Modern Chic readers, a FREE complimentary 50 minute health consultation! All you need to do is go to her website at www.thenutritionfactor.com, hit the Connect tab, and sign up for the free consultation. You’ll get a response back as soon as possible to set up a convenient date and time. All consultations are strictly confidential.
To learn more, LIKE Athena’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNutritionFactor.
