What exactly is a wellbeing coach?
I’ve been away for a while, working hard on becoming fully qualified as a Wellbeing Coach certified by the ICF. I’m absolutely loving the journey and am looking forward to working with business leaders, teams, and individuals to embed lasting change.
As this news article highlights, it is simply not enough to offer short-term or drop-in wellbeing and mindfulness workshops as part of your corporate offering. Issues such as stress and burnout are deeply rooted and require long-term solutions that both leaders and employees need to work on.
So what exactly does a Wellbeing Coach do?!
Coaches are not therapists. We help people to step back and disassociate from their challenges, looking into patterns, behaviours and habits to help clients create change and achieve progress in their personal or professional lives where they’ve struggled to on their own.
Most of us want to transform and spend so much time thinking about specific changes we’d like in our lives. How often do you find yourself thinking that you’d love to feel less stressed, lose a stone, live in a different house, move to another country or become a more successful version of yourself? Like most of us, I’m sure this takes up a lot of thinking space in your head.
So the real question is not ‘Do we want change?’, but Do we actually want TO change?
What we think, feel, and do on a daily basis creates emotions which lead to behaviours. Behaviours then become habits which then become too hard to shift.
CHANGE STARTS IN THE MIND.
We struggle to create change on our own due to our programming. Coaches work with people as a whole, working with areas that are out of balance - mentally, physically, energetically, emotionally and spiritually.
The brain likes to stick with what’s familiar which makes change particularly difficult. Add to that the fact that our brains naturally operate with a negativity bias. So if you know exactly what you should be doing but are not achieving your goals, it’s because you are human, and this is where your coach comes in, to help you retrain your brain.
We challenge long-held belief systems wired into your brain and help to remove them as well as break habitual patterns that are holding you back.
A coach will help you to reduce stress, overcome health issues, learn how to fulfil your needs, and increase life satisfaction by:
Focusing on where you want to go
Providing a non-judgemental space to talk
Offering accountability and support throughout your journey
Teaching effective tools and techniques to implement long lasting change
Ensuring you become a happier, healthier, more confident version of yourself
Please drop me a line if you’d like to hear more around how me and my team can help you.
Nicola
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