{"id":3829,"date":"2010-07-03T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2016-08-12T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:28:16","slug":"wellness-coaching-part-1-success-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wellness-coaching-part-1-success-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Coaching: Part 1 \u2013 Success Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a huge need and an enormous market for health and wellness coaching<\/a><\/strong> in our sedentary and stressed out world.\u00a0 Parents want to stay healthy so they can watch their grandchildren get married.\u00a0\u00a0 Executives want to have more energy, get more done, and be less stressed as they make their way up the corporate ladder.\u00a0 Companies want to boost morale, improve productivity, and pump up their bottom line.\u00a0\u00a0 Wellness coaching<\/strong> impacts and supports all of these outcomes, and is fast becoming accepted as a worthwhile investment at all levels.<\/p>\n

Starting Out: Motivation<\/h3>\n

For any kind of coaching to be effective, your client must be motivated to participate in a committed way.\u00a0 When you first see a client for wellness coaching<\/strong>, she has probably already tried on her own to start exercising, meditating, etc.\u00a0 And she probably failed\u2013otherwise she wouldn\u2019t be coming to you!<\/p>\n

So, how do you get your client motivated?\u00a0 You guide her to experience, in her own mind, what she has lost in the past by not following a healthy lifestyle, what she is losing out on now, and what her future looks like if she doesn\u2019t make some changes.\u00a0 Help her clarify what her wellness focus is\u2013losing weight, sleeping better, healthier eating, managing stress, whatever, and what her deepest fears are, about what will happen if she doesn\u2019t change.\u00a0 Clarity, and a visceral experience of the consequences she fears most, are a powerful motivation combination.<\/p>\n

Make Wellness Coaching a Great Experience: Mindset<\/h3>\n

Keep your client\u2019s wellness coaching<\/span> experience positive and fun wherever possible. Maybe your client can acquire a bright red \u201cthat was easy\u201d button, like the one on my desk, to help keep a positive perspective.\u00a0 Help her set up a reward system for keeping her wellness commitments.\u00a0 Coach her to understand and accept that the reward is for her consistency in following through on her actions, and not for the results of the actions.\u00a0 Be her cheerleader.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget to give her motivation a boost when you see it flagging.<\/p>\n

Changing habits can be challenging and threatening to your client, and sometimes to people close to her.\u00a0 Losing weight, for instance, may bring up boundary issues in your client, or insecurities in her partner.\u00a0 New eating habits may make her she\u2019s being disrespectful of her parents or critical of the way she was brought up.\u00a0 Part of wellness coaching<\/span> is coaching your client to be powerful and committed through whatever comes up and threatens her success.\u00a0\u00a0 Hold the expectation of success for your client and help her keep the positive mindset she needs to move forward.<\/p>\n

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Dorine G. Kramer<\/p>\n

JTS Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a huge need and an enormous market for health and wellness coaching in our sedentary and stressed out world.\u00a0 Parents want to stay healthy so they can watch their grandchildren get married.\u00a0\u00a0 Executives want to have more energy, get more done, and be less stressed as they make their way up the corporate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[979],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wellness-coaching","tag-wellness-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18429,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/18429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}