Our Health and Wellness Center Services
WHAT IS HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACHING?
Health and wellness coach partners with clients seeking to enhance their well-being through self-directed, lasting changes aligned with the client’s core values. Health and wellness coach displays unconditional positive, respectful, and non-judgmental regard for the clients and a belief in their capacity for change and honors each client as an expert of their own life
science-backed diet.
Your physical, mental, and social health are connected to your diet and one another. Improving one element positively impacts the others. Working on your whole-person health while improving your diet strengthens your efforts in every area, leading to an improved overall sense of well-being.
Learn healthy habits with one of our wellness coaches.
Health and Wellness Coaches are partners and facilitators. They empower individuals and groups to develop and achieve their self-determined health and wellness goals based on the client’s own desires and consistent with the prescribed by healthcare providers treatment plans. Using a client-centered approach, the health and wellness coaches support clients in the mobilization of client’s insight, internal personal strengths, and external resources as well as in the development of self-management strategies, goals, actions steps, and accountability toward making healthy and sustainable lifestyle and behavioral changes. Health and wellness coaches do not diagnose health conditions, prescribe treatments, or provide psychological therapy. Health and wellness coaches may provide expert guidance in the areas they hold active, nationally recognized credentials and offer resources from nationally recognized authorities.
Benefits for adults
We all know that leading an active lifestyle is good for us. If you participate in regular moderate physical activity, you can expect to enjoy numerous health and social benefits, including:
- reduced risk of heart disease and stroke
- reduced risk of developing high blood pressure
- reduced blood pressure in people who already have high blood pressure
- prevention of some cancers
- reduced risk of becoming overweight
- reduced risk of developing diabetes and prevention and treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes - it has been estimated that 30 to 50 percent of new cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented by appropriate physical levels of activity
- better bone and muscle development and prevention of osteoporosis
- improved muscle flexibility, strength, and endurance
- reduced risk of dying prematurely
- reduced risk of falling, and improved mobility and strength for older adults
- improved quality of sleep.
Physical activity can also help:
- encourage social interaction
- improve concentration and learning
- increase personal confidence and self-awareness
- reduce feelings of depression and anxiety
- enhance self-esteem
- improve quality of life.
Benefits for children and young people
Overweight children are more likely to turn into overweight adults who are often inactive and face a huge range of health problems. Being active not only keeps children and young people fit and healthy, but provides all kinds of social, emotional and intellectual benefits. Research shows that children doing regular physical activity can have:
- improved emotional wellbeing - helps young children feel more confident, happy, and relaxed, with improved self-esteem and self-concept
- improved health - encourages healthy growth and development of children's bodies and similar benefits of physically active adults
- improved mental health - improves concentration skills and ability to manage anxiety and stress
- enhanced social skills - develops skills such as cooperation and teamwork, and a great way to have fun, meet new people and develop friendships
- increased capacity for learning and productivity - active children are generally more motivated and better organized than children who are inactive, and physical activity has direct links to improved learning outcomes
- a more positive school environment - active students are generally less aggressive and experience fewer discipline problems
- a reduction in anti-social behavior - active children are less likely to smoke, use illicit drugs or be involved in criminal activity.
