Coping with Lifestyle changes
INTRODUCTION
Over half of what affects your health is your choice of lifestyle. The
way you live your life largely determines the level of health with which you get to experience your life. Perhaps this awareness comes slowly, over years of self-awareness and learning about health and wellness and perhaps it comes quickly, in that teachable moment when you receive a diagnosis or in some way encountered a health challenge.
Most of us have had the experience of being diagnosed and treated or have been to a health-educator who implored us to change our lifestyle behavior. This often magnifies our problems and our own sense of failure. These solitary efforts at change are not easy. To quote Pat Williams, the founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training, “If you could have done it by yourself, you probably would have done it by now.” There is the growing awareness that people need an ally to work with, and that wellness is a very individual and personal issue.
- Lifestyle Change
- Coaching
- Taking Wellness One-On-One
- Mapping the Course
