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These are 8 areas (or approaches) that I explore with clients. These 8 areas form the focal point of most of my own training and experience, and a deep love of the principles inherent in this section was what drove me to become a coach in the first place. Exercise The body is designed for movement. If you don’t get enough
of the right kinds of movement, you cannot achieve optimal health.
Period. End of story. Therefore, exercise (in some form) is integral
to health. You know how everyone is looking for the “magic
pill”, the one thing that you can do or take that will lead
to health? Well, regular exercise may just be the closest thing
to a cure-all “magic pill” that we have, because it
has a positive effect on nearly every part of your being: body,
mind, and spirit. And it does all of this with no bad side effects.
Diet You must eat to live. Even a small child knows this. Even my cat knows this. But how many people eat consciously with an awareness of how food affects their health? What we consume on a regular basis plays an absolutely essential role in our health. Part of my mission is to help people make conscious, educated choices and to incorporate healthy eating habits into their lifestyle. I teach you to choose quality over quantity and to eat for the right reasons. Healthy is tasty, and it is not nearly as difficult as you might think to learn to love the foods that are good for you. |
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Stress
Stress is inevitable. If you are alive, you will experience it. Unmanaged stress is a source of illness, disease, unhappiness, emotional issues, and relationship problems. Therefore, effective stress management is absolutely essential to health and happiness. I help you to take a look at the stressful influences in your life. I will teach you practical techniques to handle the stress you cannot ship to China (spouse, boss, kids, etc…). My ultimate goal, however, is to help you to change your perception about the stressful situations in your life, seeing them as welcome challenges and chances for growth.
Time
Everyone has 24 hours in a day, from the very efficient to the chronically
disorganized, from the successful to the struggling. In my experience,
the happiest, most effective people make the best use of their time. Efficient
time management is crucial in order to meet your goals. A large part of
my role as coach is to help you to organize your schedule. My mission
is to help you to get rid of all that is meaningless in your life so that
you can create the meaning that you want.
Relationships
With the possible exceptions of Taoist hermits and shipwrecked sailors, everyone has other people in their lives. These relationships are many and varied. Happy, healthy people tend to be conscious of how their relationships affect them. I will help you take a look at the people in your life and make conscious decisions about what role they will continue to have. You should become aware of who is positive and who is negative in your life, set some healthy boundaries, and begin to make the changes that you need in order to be healthy and happy.
Purpose
Why do you get up in the morning? What guides your actions during the day? What gives meaning to the things you do? In our fast-paced world, it is very easy to get swept up into the day-to-day, to lose sight of the forest because of all the trees. A definite sense of purpose helps to put things back in perspective and to give meaning to otherwise mundane chores. I will help you define your purpose by asking the hard questions. I will encourage you to take the steps needed to bring your purpose to life.
Spirituality
This
word has many different meanings for different people but at root, spirituality
is about a deep connection between all things. The deeper a person’s
awareness of this connection becomes, the more it manifests in daily life
as compassion, appreciation, peace, wonder, humor, and happiness. Living
a spiritual life is living a life of constant growth. It is my goal to
help you look at the spiritual side of life in order to bring more sacredness,
compassion, and awareness into your day-to-day existence. If you have
deep beliefs, I want to see them in action, giving you strength, courage,
and direction during your day. When your deepest beliefs are supporting
your goals, it is impossible not to reach them.
Wholeness
This principle is really a culmination of all my other approaches. A balanced life is a combination of all of its pieces working together. The outer reflects the inner and the inner is influenced by the outer. A balanced, healthy, happy life is a process rather than a place. My most important job as your coach is to help you bring together all of the fragments of your life and to recreate them as a whole. We look at what’s important to you, your purpose, your goals, your dreams, your convictions, and begin the process of gradually integrating all of the things that support your greater health and happiness.