Become a certified Health Coach.
If you think about your last visit to the doctor how much time did he/she actually spend with you? Did you get the chance to discuss how you really feel, or to take a look at your overall health and wellbeing – or discuss diet, nutrition, stress or activity levels? Generally, the answer is no. Most doctors only have a few minutes to spend with each patient. It’s not that they don’t want to spend more time with patients, they simply don’t have enough time.
At a recent Health Coaching conference in the UK, Dr Rangan Chatterjee voiced his frustration at not being able to spend more time discussing lifestyle changes his patients could make and expressed his support for Health Coaching to become an integrated part of a doctor’s practice. The landscape of healthcare has changed. Chronic disease now far outweighs acute illness, with 80% of premature deaths today being caused by lifestyle diseases. And yes, that means 80% are avoidable. This is where the medical profession struggles to find solutions, but it is also exactly where health coaches can help!
So What Exactly Does a Health Coach Do?
The primary goal of a Health Coach is to help their clients commit to a permanent lifestyle shift, overcoming all the barriers that commonly stop people changing. Health coaches help their clients work through lifestyle and behaviour modifications, they mentor, inspire, guide, and motivate clients by understanding them as an individual – anyone can transform their health but for each of us, the drivers and motivators are very different.
Our clients know what they should or shouldn’t be doing but lack the drive and motivation. A health coach works with each person as an individual to help them create a new future in relation to their health that is clear, exciting, in line with their values and geared towards their preferences. Health Coaches have the luxury of time that medical doctors don’t, to delve deeper into the hows and whys of preventative care. So the real issue is a ‘behavioural change’ one and this is the role of the Health Coach. The great thing about becoming a Health Coach is that you can build it in and around raising a family. It can be a part time or full time career. You get to choose.
Does this sound like something that would excite and inspire you?
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