{"id":7596,"date":"2017-07-13T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:16:40","slug":"how-a-wellness-coach-enhances-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/how-a-wellness-coach-enhances-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Wellness Coach Enhances Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How a Wellness Coach Enhances Wellness<\/p>\n<p>By Cathy Liska<\/p>\n<p>First, a question: how is wellness developed?\u00a0 It starts with evaluating your current level of wellness or defining your baseline.\u00a0 Next, define your desired level of wellness considering your capacities.\u00a0 Then, develop strategies and a plan of action.\u00a0 Implement desired changes, review the impact, and adjust as appropriate.\u00a0 Manage accountability and celebrate successes.\u00a0 How is this made easier?\u00a0 By working with a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5946&amp;action=edit\"> wellness<\/a> coach.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/03\/health\/sw-wellness-coach\/index.html\"> wellness coach <\/a>supports the process as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Awareness: the coach asks questions to help explore the current level of wellness, motivations to stay at that level, and motivations to change.<\/li>\n<li>Empowerment: the coach supports the exploration of goals and defining objectives while also considering possible barriers and limitations plus opportunities for moving past those barriers or limitations.<\/li>\n<li>Planning: the coach supports the brainstorming and consideration of strategies and then works through a process for the client to define their specific, measurable action steps.<\/li>\n<li>Accountability: as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/the-challenge-accountability\/\">accountability<\/a> partner the coach asks the client how they want to be held accountable, then checks in with them on their progress; as the client\u2019s partner the coach holds the focus on client intentions, and the coach ensures the client acknowledges their progress and successes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it is possible to significantly improve wellness individually, most often working with a wellness coach is more efficient and effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a Wellness Coach Enhances Wellness By Cathy Liska First, a question: how is wellness developed?\u00a0 It starts with evaluating your current level of wellness &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,470,471],"tags":[222,174,50,348,329,480,315],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","tag-accountability","tag-awareness","tag-coaching","tag-empowering","tag-wellness","tag-wellness-coach","tag-wellness-coaching","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}