Integrative Nutrition Health & Wellness Coaching
What is a Health Coach and why consider hiring one?
What is IIN, and what is a Health Coach?
The Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) has been a thought leader in the wellness industry since the 1990s. The importance of health and wellness is recognized globally, and IIN remains at the forefront of the industry.
Health coaching is an evolving field, and it’s growing more in popularity. With millions of people suffering from preventable lifestyle-related diseases, Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches are uniquely positioned to bring about lasting change in the lives of individuals all across the globe and help spread the ripple effect of empowered health and happiness.
Health Coaches use a forward-thinking approach. The support they offer is both ~ science and experience ~ based; it’s a combination of traditional and modern approaches, catered to each bio-individual client.
In addition to supporting clients with specific goals, Health Coaches empower clients to choose health-promoting behaviors that work for them. They raise awareness and offer support as clients move in their own bio-individual ways toward the greater health they want for themselves.
Coaching hopefully leads to long-term behavior change, but only because Health Coaches help clients do the meaningful work that forms a strong foundation.
It’s not just the content knowledge and exposure to a number of health, wellness, and dietary theories that set Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches apart!
It’s the unique value of our core concepts: bio-individuality, primary food, and secondary food.
Health Coaches are coaches who focus on health and wellness. They have a lot in common with life coaches, career coaches, and even athletic coaches!
Like other coaches, they approach coaching as a relationship. They’re partners throughout their clients’ journeys that consist of ongoing practice and feedback. All coaches help clients reach their full potential by raising awareness, making connections, identifying patterns, shifting limiting beliefs, using a growth mind set, and offering strengths based support.
10 reasons why to consider hiring a Health Coach?
1.) Health Coaches coach clients to be experts on themselves. They serve as guides on the side by letting clients take the lead. 2.) Health Coaches provide a solid structure for organic transformation, whatever that means to each particular client. They coach clients to find their own answers. 3.) Health Coaches empower clients to build and continually adapt unique wellness lifestyles. They use experiential strategies to help clients figure out what works for them. 4.) Health Coaches view health holistically and support clients with a variety of lifestyle habits. 5.) Health Coaches take a more preventive approach. They help clients make connections between issues and obstacles. 6.) Health Coaches meet clients where they are. They support client led goals and habit changes. 7.) Health Coaches let clients drive the conversation and determine areas of desired focus. 8.) Health Coaches have no expectations for their clients’ health and wellness journeys and aren’t attached to particular outcomes. 9.) Health Coaches coach clients during the ongoing process of transformation. They coach clients on how to make lifestyle shifts that they can adapt based on what’s working or not working at the time. They also provide accountability and support throughout the process. 10.) Health Coaches offer sustainable wellness strategies that increase overall quality of life long-term. They approach wellness as a lifestyle, not a short-term solution.
🍀Health history session🍀
The Health History Session is our first look at your overall well-being. There is a questionnaire *Health History Form* that you will carefully fill out before our scheduled appointment. The form is simple and will clear the path for you and I to get a birds eye view of your vision of the life you are yearning to live for.
Some of the topics *the form* goes over are:
*Current medications, herbs & supplements that you are taking (prescribed or over the counter)
*The health histories of your family
(your mother, father and their lineage)
*Your current overall lifestyle
(exercise, hobbies, favorite foods, relationships,
your occupation, your goals or ambitions.. etc)
*We will also explore your thoughts and motivations continuing forward in life.
Participants in a Health History session feel inspired and supported, which gives them a spark to make positive changes and bring more balance into their sense of integrated well-being.
If the session goes well and we share an inspired connection to invest in the process of balancing your personal health and wellness, the next step is the
6 month program.
A Health History Session is an opportunity to settle yourself into the present moment, see through the past, and move towards your future with power and grace.
Interested in scheduling a Health History session?
~Please, send an email, text or call~
When we schedule your session, a Health History PDF will be sent for you to fill it out prior to our meeting.
💫 Be well 💫
🌗🌘6 month program🌒🌓
The next step after completing the Health History Session is the 6 month program, when we will design your transformational plan.
The program engages us in an exchange long enough to allow for periods of ups and down, which will enable us to develop balanced strategies, empowering you to coach yourself once the program is finished.
There are *two options* for the 6 month program:
*Weekly sessions* or *bi-weekly sessions*
Weekly sessions are the deepest dive and require the most work and patience with yourself and the program.
Bi-weekly sessions offer a little more space and time off which removes the added stress of meeting weekly.
The goal of either program is exactly the same and the out come will reflect the effort and energy that we put into your personal progress plan.
After you graduate from the 6 month program we can schedule a monthly coaching session, or we can have a coaching session every three months.
(Sessions beyond the 6 month program are optional)
As the number of graduated participants grow, there will be group sessions to support, encourage, inspire, and learn through the experiences of each other. The group programs are a dynamic boost for confidence and sense of self purposefulness.
Join me for a 6 moth program to be and become the change we want to see in the world, and build our family for future group sessions.
We are all in this together
⚡️ So let's thrive! ⚡️
✨My health and wellness journey✨
A few years after my high school graduation the entire world began to change as the "World Wide Web" and internet became part of daily life.
Although the world was heading in this new and grand direction, I was still very old fashion and preferred to learn by hearing from qualified teachers, reading books, learning from personal experience, and communicating with others who had grown and gathered information through their trials in life.
In my late 20's I began to experience transformation in my body from the reactions to my previous lifestyle of unhealthy choices and habits.
Although I was making much better lifestyle choices in the present moment my past life of unconsciousness needed to be purged, which appeared in my life as health challenges and imbalances. It felt like I was fighting for my life at times, although each trial made me more conscious of how to navigate the delicate balance of my well-being through the power of choice, and I remained dedicated and determined to reclaim my life and lifestyle.
As I made progress, wellness felt less and less like a tight rope and more like a good hiking path where I would find new scenic views across the landscape of my life. I learned that life was supposed to be challenging and that those challenges are what build character and a sense of personal strength through perseverance.
In 2018, I became aware of The Institute For Integrative Nutrition (a world renowned Health Coaching Certification program) through a co-worker of mine who was enrolled in the IIN program. We often got into discussions about the curriculum, and she would always say that I already knew everything they were teaching. Although that sounded like a nice complement, I wasn't so sure that it was 100% true.
In 2021, I graduated from IIN with my Integrated Nutrition Health Coaching Certification.
After having supported many friends and loved ones through their health and wellness journeys, as well as handling my own deep transformational process, I know that I have a lot to offer as a Health Coach, and it is now a part of my official skill portfolio.
Wealth of Well-being is the meaning of my life and I look forward to sharing my excitement about it with you to help increase your ~ wellness wealth account ~
Cheers ✨To good health✨