Wellness Coaching for Change

Do you hear your spirit calling you to dance?
Are you excited about your life?

Living your best life means responsibly and intentionally living your ideal dreams.

You create your life story...you MAKE your life happen.

What story would you prefer to live? By focusing on happy possiblities you CAN live your most fabulous life.

But there is more, a holistic approach to wellness means integrating mind, body and spirit. I believe especially Americans suffer from a soul sickness...a sickness needing attention that includes the need for a reconnection with nature... eating whole foods locally raised by farmers who care about the land and treatment of their animals. I think by restoring movement as an integral part of our day we can get back to wellness. Rather than returning to the olden days, I'm talking about creating a nourishing environment where we can easily thrive and feel good about the way we are living our daily lives!

It's about getting up each day feeling excited about what you can experience that day. Experiment with getting up each morning, doing some stretches and looking out a window at nature and counting your blessings. Even while you may be going through hard times, you can ALWAYS intentionally imagine and focus upon your blessings. Feel grateful for your job, your ability to freely choose and think your own thoughts, love in your heart. What we focus on grows. Make your day filled with something good!

If you feel like something is missing in your life but you don't know where to start, or feel confused about the exact changes to make, call me. Let’s get spiritually connected in a way that might benefit you.

Coaching can help you:

Live with intention and fulfilled purpose
Clearly define what it is you want to change
Stay motivated and commit to achieving your goals
Live a more sustainable, responsible and healthy lifestyle

HOW DOES COACHING WORK?

As a wellness coach, we work together so can you discover the answers to your life questions (rather than me telling you the answers to your challenges.) You are already a whole person, rather than some broken person needing to be fixed. I don't know what is best for you… no other human knows what’s best for you. Only YOU know what’s best for you!

Businesses routinely hire business coaches to provide additional viewpoints to successfully resolve challenging business questions. Like this routine “temporarily hire a business coach” practice, sometimes individuals need a coach. That’s what I do as a wellness coach.

The wisdom we often seek outside ourselves is but a reflection of what is already within us. We sometimes need a different viewpoint to see the answers we seek. By getting in touch with the living live mastery already within us, we do indeed find those answers. That's where I come in. I ask thought-proving questions and guide you into becoming one with your inner spiritual consultant. If you ready to make changes, to take responsibility for creating your new life story, then a wellness coach will help you.

Sessions last appx. 60 minutes. It's usually best to schedule one weekly session for several weeks. Your inner guidance will inspire you so you know how long to consult with me as your coach. Please feel call for a free consultation.

Are you ready to create some change in your life?

WHAT A WELLNESS COACH ISN'T

A wellness coach is different than a therapist or consultant. The client is expected to equally participate in this co-creative process and is totally responsible for their own actions. I am not a professional therapist or consultant. A wellness coach doesn't necessarily know any more than the client on a particular subject, I am a trained coach however. I'm a guide for you. I can educate you on healthy ways to eat where you might feel better but I am not a certified nutritionist.

You must take responsibility for your own decisions. I will not tell you what to do or how to do it. If there is any reason you would need to check with your primary health care practitioner before making any changes to you diet or exercise, you need to do so.

Are you ready to take responsibility for creating the life you really prefer?

THE MIND/BODY CONNECTION

Research has shown that thoughts are converted into chemicals. These chemicals are carried as messages to the cells of the body to tell them what to do. This translates to you are constantly communicating to your body to either be tense or relax, to be up or down, and everywhere inbetween.

So, what do you choose to tell your body to do?

I believe there is more. Research has also show that everything is basically energy. An atom has very little substance and a lot of energy. That energy eminates from our body. We are communicating with the world around us in an unseen way. Have you noticed how some people make you feel better just by being around them, you don't even have to talk to them. The same is true about some people leave you feeling worse than you did before you saw them. Children and animals sense who to trust. Some animals are able to detect illness in people.

So, what does this mean for us? For me, I realize every thought I have and action I take has an effect on everything around me and maybe even everything. It has become more important for me to take responsibility for what I think, what I say and what I do. While I don't try to be perfect, I just want to have a positive effect instead of a negative one.

What effect are you having on the world around you?

NUTRITION

If we want to be healthy, happy and whole then we must be aware of nutrition
and how what we eat effects our mind, body and spirit.

The body tries hard to maintain homeostasis. It has many systems to take care of toxins. However, in today's society, it's very difficult to not overload our bodies with toxins.

As a wellness coach, I can help you become aware of what you are putting into your body and help you make healthier choices. I'm not a nutritionist and can only educate you on options, I can not tell you what to eat to heal any conditions. There are doctors and other practitioners who can assist you if you have a serious medical condition by way of diet.

One thing we are all sure of is that eating more vegetables and fruits and less processed foods leads to better health. We have come to assume that if it's in the grocery store it couldn't be that bad for us. But, this isn't true. Nature has provided the perfect foods for our bodies. It takes time to break habits, but it is well worth the effort. Just by changing your diet, many troublesome symptoms can disappear.

I believe in eating food grown in our own communities as much as possible. Not only does this provide freshness of our foods, but it supports our local farmers and helps cut down on our oil usage and CO2 emissions. Recent research supports the idea that organically grown foods have more nutrients. Organically raised animals are ethically treated and fed the natural foods therefore provide our bodies with more of the nutrients it needs.

Artificial treatments change the biology of foods and animals. Again, nature has provided the perfect foods, we don't need to alter them at all. If we provide the soil the nutrients it needs, our plants and animals fed on them will provide our bodies with the perfect nutrients to stay healthy and avoid disease. We are what we eat, what we eat is what it was fed. What do you want passed down to your body?

What you put in your body paints the picture of your future...
What does your picture look like?

Trust the river, but keep the paddle in your hands
(Author – Michael Arloski
Publisher - Whole Person Associates )

Life is like a river, that flows along infinitely. We do not contol where the river goes. We do not control the flow of the river, not its crashing rapids nor its quiet still pools. We don’t know where the fork on the left goes, or the fork on the right.

We are not driftwood. We are not helplessly being pushed down the river by the current, smashing into the rocks, or stuck in circling eddies.

It is like we are in a canoe, with a paddle in our hands. Sitting high in our seats, our eyes wide open, looking ahead we scan for sings of white water. Our ears alert, we listen for the roar of rapids and waterfalls.
We decide whether to take the fork to the left or the one to the right and we decide whether to run the rapids, or to put ashore and portage around, putting our crafts back in the water when it is safe.
Going with the flow of the river we learn to navigate with the current, not against it.

We learn to trust the river, but remember the paddle in our hands. We remember the power of choice we have and know that we did not create the river, but we choose ho to live with what it brings us.