How I Work With You for Your Success As Healthy Life Guru, I guide and assist, using tools and techniques to help you the client, or more accurately the participant, make long-lasting lifestyle choices for the health of their body, soul and their environment. Just like a coach in sports helps train and guide their athletes with strategies, tips, support, love and caring to reach the athlete’s optimum performance, so does a healthy living coach guide you through a similar process. I will tell never tell you what to do or what choices to make on your healthy life path. This is not the function of a wellness coach or an information service, and does not serve a person stepping on the path towards a healthy life. I cannot play the game for you, but I can help you win! When a client makes the decision to hire me for healthy living coaching and consultation services, the client is agreeing to participate in their healing journey. It is their journey after all, and they need to take the necessary steps on the path towards achieving their healthy life goals.

What is Wellness Coaching?

The concept of using various methods to ensure an individual’s physical, spiritual and emotional wellbeing has been used by many cultures for centuries. These methods might not have been referred to as wellness, and the people administering these techniques and methods most likely were not referred to as wellness coaches, but these various healers were, in some way, a coach to those in need and those they helped they helped.

However, the concept of wellness coaching specifically is a fairly new field that began about 30 years ago and started to gain significant traction in the early 1990’s and is widely supported and used today.

A psychologist named Judd Allen, PhD and a board member of the National Wellness Institute defined wellness as: “a process of becoming aware of making choices toward a more successful existence.”

This definition was a result of a survey Allan conducted of wellness experts that when asked to define wellness, unanimously agreed on the following:

There are many areas of coaching you may have heard of: life coaching, health coaching, fitness coaching, business coaching…the list goes on. However, wellness coaching combines various aspects of all of those methods, and specifically emphasizes the aspect of self-actualization, which as previously stated, is an individual’s participation in their quest.