7 Ways A Health Coach Can Level up Your Healing
You’ve got doctors and medications… supplements and tests to do…changes to make to diet or lifestyle, right? You might even feel completely overwhelmed by all the new health plan you’ve received and don’t know where to start.
That makes sense. As someone who had health issue after health issue and doctors appointment after doctors appointment, and supplement after supplement to take… I get it. It almost makes you want to just …stick it on a shelf and come back to it when you have the mental bandwidth, right?
But then you’re just prolonging whatever you’re dealing with…
What if you had a health coach who had access to your medical charts and knew exactly what you were supposed to be doing, taking, and seeing for progress along the way?
Someone to tell you what to start now, and what to come back to once your plat wasn’t so full… Someone to listen to you vent about how annoyed you are that you have to do or take all these things (temporarily!). Someone to meet with when you’re worried or anxious about your health or the health plan. That’s my role.
As a health coach who has worked with Naturopathic doctors’ patients for a number of years now, I’ve learned how to guide people through their unique process of healing.
Here are the top 7 ways in which having a health coach can be the key to your success:
People often find the list of to-do items and tests and supplements/medications to be quite overwhelming, especially as you're working through a new health plan, so working as a team tends to give people more confidence, direction, and understanding as to what they're implementing. In short, I'm the logistics gal if you're not sure what to do, or when to do it.
In each of our sessions, I record updates about how you're responding to treatment/lifestyle changes/supplements, and put it in your chart so your doc has a record of what is working and maybe what's not.
I help guide you through lifestyle and nutrition adjustments that can help get you to your health goals sooner, or more smoothly.
As a gut-specialized health coach, I can offer reassurance, guidance, and support if symptoms pop up, looping in your doctor when necessary.
As a collaborator with your doctor, I have a direct line to your doctor, so I’m able to review your questions and concerns in between your appointments; giving you peace of mind that you’re on the right track
We get to track and brainstorm which tools are helping, and necessary to continue, and which are not as effective so we can pause them to reassess. Essentially, we get to have a 1-on-1 to ensure your health plan is effective and look into if part of your plan needs any tweaking.
And lastly, if you have struggled with health issues for a prolonged period of time, you might find it helpful to have someone's support who has not only been through the ringer (health-wise) but is also able to offer compassion and encouragement.
As you can see, I work with people in a lot of areas of their health! If you think any of the above would be helpful for you, I'd love to join you in the process of healing. The first step is setting up your first appointment, so we can get the ball rolling!