Real life stories on the benefits of health and wellness coaching – Blog archive
Health coaching case studies
These real life stories are about people like you who sought support to find ways to live well with chronic illness or another challenging health issue. Learn about the issues my clients faced, how we addressed them in our health coaching sessions, what they learned and how that changed their lives.
Some of these blogs also describe the various approaches I use in health coaching including Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Family Constellations, NLP and more.
How to challenge yourself as a way to change yourself
When you want yourself and your circumstances to be different, you need to figure out how to challenge yourself to change yourself. To do something different so you get what you’re seeking. As the saying goes: If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on...
What to do when a health issue strikes at the most inconvenient time
It sucks when a health issue strikes at the most inconvenient time. You’re busy, you got a life, work to do, people to see, family to take care, fun to have. And a health issue can stop everything. Or maybe not stop everything, but it can take up time and energy you...
What is the impact of anxiety like and how to manage it
The impact of anxiety - What is this like for you? Are you aware of when and how anxiety shows up in your life? How it slides into the driving seat in charge of your choices and actions? Do you know when it all started? Many people have talked to me about the increase...
Here are the 10 things to do when your recovery is uncertain
When your recovery is uncertain, it can be a difficult time. Scary even because you don’t know how much functionality you’ll get back and how long that will take. That might make for uncomfortable reading. I am mentioning this up front to acknowledge your or your...
What is the impact of family on health and illness?
The impact of family on health and illness and vice versa has long been an interest of mine. I was reminded of the depth of this impact when working with a client last year. He has kindly given me permission to use one of our sessions as a case study to share...
What health coaching is like for people with challenging health issues
A former client, Wendy H., has graciously shared her health coaching journey to give you a taster of what it is like and how it can support someone to live well with the impact of the health issue they have. Wendy starts her story before we started working together,...
My story of coping with a serious rare illness Transverse Myelitis #RareDiseaseDay
For Rare Disease Day, I am sharing my story of coping with a serious rare illness called Transverse Myelitis, which I got in October 2008. I realised I never shared my personal story with serious illness in any detail and given Transverse Myelitis is rare, it feels...
How to transform the struggle of a serious health issue into acceptance – Part 3
Accepting a serious health issue can be hard so for the past few weeks, I’ve been describing strategies you can implement to transform that struggle into acceptance. The strategies have focused on mindfulness, how to be the fly-on-the-wall of your life, dealing with...
You can transform the struggle of a serious health issue into acceptance – Part 2
Last week I described what Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is, and how it can help you transform the struggle of a serious health issue to acceptance. I focused on two of its six principles – Contact with the Present Moment and The Observer Self. This week I...
How to transform the struggle of a serious health issue into acceptance – Part 1
I hear the word acceptance a lot in relation to living with a challenging health issue, whether that be an illness, injury and/or disability. My clients often say, I can’t accept this. If I could get to a place where I can accept this. I think my issue is accepting...
How do you know if you need help adapting emotionally to a serious health issue?
How do you know if you need help adapting emotionally to living with a serious health issue? This is a big question. And it raises so many more questions, concerns, and maybe fears. You may wonder if you are going crazy. Or you think should be able to cope on your...
