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Professional coaches have long been recognized for their skills in helping athletes and executives perform at their best and Health & Wellness Coaches are helping people reach their best health and well-being. Wellness coaching is done through a relationship that creates transformation and learning in people seeking to change the parts of their lives that are no longer serving them well. It starts with an engaging conversation in which we re-imagine your health and sometimes access what you already know.

Wellness coaching is a tool to get at your deepest wants and desires around your health and lifestyle. It is a conversation in which I listen mindfully to what you want and work closely with you to use your strengths to get it. We focus on the present and the imagined future and only the past as it relates to prior successes. We work together to bring out your very best self or as I like to say ”to transform into the best version of you.”

It is neither. A wellness coach will not be standing over you while you do crunches but will have you design or change your fitness program as needed. As for therapy, we do not spend too much time on the past or on the problem, with one exception- we do look at your past successes or times when you were remarkably brave or fierce and bring those experiences forward to propel you towards your highest self. We mainly focus on the present and the imagined best future.

Research has found that some people are more candid over the phone when there is no eye contact. Therefore, I do many of my coaching sessions over the phone or through virtual meetings and we often never meet in person, although I will know you very well from the conversations we have. However, if you prefer face-to-face meetings and you live near Singapore I would be more than happy to arrange in-person coaching sessions with you.

Each call/meeting is about 50min and they can be at any interval you choose. When you commit to wellness coaching, it is helpful to have some extra space in your life to reflect on what you are doing and to be mindful of the changes you want to make. If you are stressed out and not able to accomplish your goals, consider that we will be exploring the things in your life that drain you or are too small for you. We work together to bring more activity forward that makes you feel fully alive. It is best to commit to coaching for 6 months to make lasting change.

Adults or late adolescents who are contemplating a change in their life- who have not been successful in sustained change. We all have untapped potential, that with the right tools and support, can take us to a level of wellness and wholeness we may not have imagined. While ambivalence is very normal when initiating a lifestyle change, wellness coaching is not appropriate for those who are completely resistant to change. Anybody in any sphere of the change cycle (contemplation, preparation, determination, action, or relapse) would benefit from a wellness coach relationship.

I can help people with:

• Felling fatigue / low energy
• A life out of balance/life that is not your own
• Obesity or overweight
• Procrastination
• A relationship with food that does not support wellness
• Stress, anxiety or discontentedness
• A desire to commit to and sustain regular exercise
• No time to do what calls to them
• High blood pressure
• Sugar craving / Binge eating 
• Microbiome out of balance / Gut Health
• A feeling that despite great accomplishments, something in life is missing

It is important to say that coaching individuals benefit me as well. As we dig deep into what you want most in your life, it is an astonishing privilege for me to witness transformative change. So it must be said, that I am a benefactor of wellness coaching as well…

• Psychotherapy or psychoanalysis
• Personal training
• Critical, judgmental, punishing
• In any way guilt-inducing

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