Health coaches are your personal health gurus, cheerleaders, partners, mentors, and guides. They walk you through the lifestyle change process to improve your inner and physical health. Coaches provide health education, but this is not their sole responsibility. They are rather experts in behavioral and lifestyle improvement.

Their services are available through specific wellness programs keeping in mind multiple factors. If you have a chronic health problem such as diabetes, your doctor may recommend health coaching but not for any complex disease such as kidney failure. Similarly, you can hire a health coach to achieve your health goals, such as staying healthy, crowd outing sugar, alcohol, junk food, or for your career or spiritual advice.

A common misunderstanding of coaching is that a coach teaches you what to do and gives you a specific plan. It is completely wrong! Health coaching is not an alternative to doctor appointments. This process of healing is absolutely interpersonal. Health coaches don’t recommend controversial supplements or high doses in their subscriptions, they do not advise vigorous exercise without consulting the physician, and they don’t work with minors to promote conflict with friends and family or give any career advice.

Health coaches maintain a structured but flexible format. We at Holistic Core Wellness, make the sessions interesting for the clients and the way of dealing also differs as per the situation of the clients. Whether the session is face-to-face or telephonic, health coaches set the agenda for each appointment to respect each other’s time constraints. In general, the first order in a business is to follow up from the last appointment to see where clients have worked and identify areas where they can continue to improve. Then discuss where the client wants to go next.

Your health coach will always ask the right question. Let’s take an example, “When HCW coaches talk about different problems like weight loss, core healing, personal care – they also talk about all the lifestyle factors that can impact the behavioral changes”. The coach will help you discover obstacles that you may not have noticed. Your coach will help you identify the steps to overcome these obstacles, the moment you identify them.

The advantage of health coaches is that someone is there to help you in it and according to the research, it works also. Health coaches help in identifying strengths that can be used in making small changes that create big differences. They assess your potential based on your unique circumstances and abilities.

• If you feel that something you’ve done doesn’t work, your health coach can help.
• If you are overwhelmed, you feel like you don’t have enough time, demotivated, then give it a shot.