WHAT IS A HEALTH COACH?

“A Health Coach is a wellness authority and supportive mentor who motivates individuals to cultivate positive health choices. Health Coaches educate and support clients to achieve their health goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments. “ –Integrative Institute of Nutrition

I help people break up with the backstabber foods. You know the ones…so sweet to your face but then make you feel or look like crap later. I’m guessing that if you are looking at my website right now you need some help getting healthy. We all want to look and feel amazing yet we don’t always prioritize ourselves or know how to break our bad habits, sometimes we even get used to feeling like crap. We can get really swept up in the hamster wheel that is modern life and get run down, forget about fun and even end up developing conditions or illness along the way. It happens to everyone.

So how do I help you? I become your cheerleader, your teacher, and occasional ass kicker. You set your goals in the area of health. I support you in the journey to meeting those fabulous goals by keeping you accountible, helping you replace the back stabber foods with #healthyswaps and replacing feeding hungry emotions with real self care. I don’t do it for you; I am on the sidelines. Like a professional coach of a sports team, I give you the plays but you make the lifestyle changes. I help you--help yourself. Some of you will shed pounds, others will shed problems and some of you will shed both.

Most of my health idols and greatest teachers are Doctors. However, Doctors today are some of the most overworked people spending 12 minutes on average with patients and seeing 30-50 patients a day. We don’t have a lot of health care management right now; we seem to have disease management. Most health issues are created by diet and lifestyle but can be changed with diet and lifestyle; which is where a Health Coach comes in. Your Dr can give you a list of what not to eat for your health challenge or health goal. But a health coach can help you understand the emotional connection to the food on that list and why you haven’t been able to make the lifestyle change…yet!

You have someone to fix your car and do your taxes why not have someone show you how to improve your health. Nothing we dream of is impossible IF we have our health.  -Galadriel Masterson, Certified Holistic Health Coach.