The smallest change with the biggest return on investment
Seeking to feel better & get healthier amidst the noise? Let's find your starting point & take simple steps to wellness!
YOUR PATH TO WELLNESS: Simple. personaLized. Credible.
Simple Steps to Big Goals
Let's start with you - what would you like to achieve when it comes to your health? What does achieving this goal make possible for you?
Most of my clients reach out with a specific goal in mind achievable via a lifestyle or behavior change. Yet, an abundance of conflicting information about 'healthy lifestyle' leaves them feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin or feeling 'stuck' having tried 'everything' with little results.
The good news is healthy lifestyle does not need to be complicated. I helped many clients break down complex goals into simple steps.
Examples of the goals my clients have:
- Get in shape and lose weight
- Preserve health, strength and mobility and age gracefully
- Learn about the right way to eat and exercise
- Have more energy
- Eat healthier
- Prevent or manage chronic conditions via lifestyle changes
- Improve sleep quality
- Decrease stress and feel more present
- Feel more fulfilled
- Optimize their health and wellbeing in other ways
Personalized Focus Area
With so much advice out there, how do you know what to focus on?
Various elements influence our health and wellness: physical activity, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, and sense of fulfillment, to name a few (click here to learn more). Working on one area at a time and starting with 'tiny' steps allow to build a sustainable habit that becomes a part of your life.
As we journey through life, certain health elements gain greater importance and have a ripple effect on all aspects of our life. Using the Duke's Health and Wellness tools, I help you:
- Pinpoint a specific area of focus for your health.
- Identify the smallest behavioral change you can make today with the highest potential for your health.
- Plan how to succeed in making the new healthy behavior a part of your life.
Credible Approach + Accessible Resources
How do you know you will succeed? What makes it different this time?
- Credible and holistic approach: I use a range of tools from Duke Health and Well-being emphasizing whole-person, customized approach to wellness including physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental factors and behavior change science.
- Baseline and clear objectives: you start with a solid understanding where you are today along the 8 dimensions of health and wellness, where you want to be and when.
- Insights-based action plan: you plan specific action steps, accounting for what is stopping you today (unhelpful behaviors, beliefs & obstacles), and leveraging past successes.
- Accountability: you take action steps while staying accountable and motivated. Studies demonstrate that your chance of successfully reaching a goal rises to 95% when you work with an experienced accountability partner.
- Valid information and resources: beyond health coaching, you will have access to resources to help you succeed - personal training and group exercise sessions, nutrition education, and references to a network of specialists, if needed.