There is an emerging profession that is helping people lower their blood pressure with less reliance on drug therapy. This profession, health and wellness coaching, is fast becoming a viable and cost effective way for health conscience adults to take control of their future life’s quality.
Lasting Behavior Change
Achieving lasting lifestyle changes is difficult. What many people with high blood pressure are discovering is that professional health coaches trained in the area of wellness are rapidly changing the success rate of people with high blood pressure and helping them achieve not only optimal blood pressure readings, but additional health bonuses as well.
In a three month coaching program consisting of once a week , forty minute sessions, it is typical to see a client's weight go down anywhere from 3 to 12 pounds. It is typical to see cholesterol levels go down incrementally, as well as unhealthy blood sugar levels that cause adult onset diabetes. Clients feel better, look better and have a healthier outlook on life. Because wellness coaches are rooted in the practice of positive psychology, clients find that it's fun to meet with their coaches and collaborate on strategic ways to implement healthy changes related to their high blood pressure,while still being held accountable for their action plan.
A Collaborative Partner
Wellness coaches help transition clients into a lifestyle that is not only more healthful but more vital and vigorous. For people with high blood pressure, a wellness coach is a partnered knowledgeable health professional who facilitates blood pressure awareness in a collaborative non judgmental manner and who mutually engages solution oriented strategies to treat the high blood pressure. Often, they collaborate with the client's doctor in treating their hypertension.
Coaches provide instruction and mentoring to their clients with hypertension, and help them set goals, define an action plan, and navigate a path until their goals are reached. Coaches help the client put learning into action. They provide an ongoing dialogue of communication via the telephone, in person, or over the Internet.
Wellness coaches provide consistency and support that makes the difference between success and failure. They are skillfully trained in how learning is put forth into action, and help the client with high blood pressure obtain the necessary skills to continue on their own. Unlike quick fix schemes that are short lived, wellness coaches teach the subtleties of intelligent change that are necessary for results.
For additional reading on how a health and wellness coach might benefit you, read How A Coach May Help You.
Kim Miller - Kim Miller has been in the health field her entire adult life. As a full time freelance personal trainer and wellness coach she has ...
