What is health and wellness coaching?

We all experience mountains and valleys and dips and turns over the course of our lives. How often do you pause to reflect on how far you’ve come and where you’re going?

Health and wellness coaches partner with you as you to pause to take stock and evaluate what’s next on your wellness journey. Health and wellness focus areas include not only healthy eating and movement, but also sleep, relaxation, social connection, work, spirituality, lifelong learning, and joy. These holistic areas form the basis of the Georgetown University cura personalis model, or treatment of the whole person. My job is to walk next to you and provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore ways to move forward and establish sustained lifelong healthy habits. I see my clients as intelligent, creative, and unique humans who are able to determine what changes might work for them. I don’t believe in a one-sized fits all approach! My job is to support and challenge you to figure out what’s next in your wellness journey - and to help you build the path to get there.

Why would you consider coaching? Stress, obesity, high blood pressure, cancer and diabetes are prominent features in our communities. These chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States and significantly impact our society’s economy and individual well-being.

Fact: Stress can have a significant negative impact on multiple organ systems, including musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nervous, and reproductive systems. 

Fact: During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 2 out of every 5 adults have reported struggling with mental or behavioral issues.

Fact: The Stress in America™ survey in 2015 found that a significantly higher percentages of adults (compared to 2014) reported stress impacted their physical and mental health. 

Fact: Constantly checking electronic devices has been linked to higher reported rates of stress.

Fact: More than one-third (36.5%) of Americans are obese. 

Fact: 75 million Americans have high blood pressure (1 in every 3 adults).

Fact: In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 609,640 people will die from the disease.  Estimated national expenditures for cancer care in the United States in 2017 were $147.3 billion. 

Fact: The rate of new cases of diabetes among children and adolescents in the U.S. has increased.