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Health Coaching and How it Works
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An Integrative Family Health Practice
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Our M.D.'s, Nurses and Health Coaches are strategic in the sense that we focus on helping you Make the Connection between Your Health, Your Environment and Your Lifestyle.
As Health Coaches, we are uniquely equipped at identifying root causes and underlying "triggers" that go undiagnosed or overlook by many traditional medical practices.
Our coaches are trained as Strategic Interventionist, providing support and motivation while helping you set new goals, solve problems and overcome obstacles at the deepest emotional levels.
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Using effective "Intervention Skills" our Coaches find their clients taking more action toward their goals, sidestepping interpersonal restrictions, and enjoying significant levels of health and wellness.
Coaches and clients working as a team implementing these strategies resolve individual, life, career and health issues that otherwise lead to internal conflict and emotional road blocks.
Our Health Coaches are in the forefront of todays web-based economy working from home and/or the office on their own schedule, doing what they love, and impacting the world in a positive way every day. They use the phone, email, webinars, Skype, power point presentations, in person coaching and videos to effectively communicate with clients. Coaches work closely with each client to coordinate which combination of communication methods will be the most effective.
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For example, some clients will request email and phone coaching while others prefer talking directly with the coach via their computer using Skype and receiving emailed worksheets and homework assignments….yes most coaching clients typically have some homework assignments. These assignments are meant to be a Fun and Rewarding part of this Journey!
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What is an Integrative Family Health Practice?
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Treating the Whole Person
Integrative Medicine or IM as it's often called, focuses on the whole person and an ongoing partnership between the patient and our Health team. Where the goal is to treat the mind, body, and spirit, all at the same time. We work to align a person's lifestyle, health and career to help create a more balanced and healthy person!
Once balance is achieved physical and mental healing occurs.
Our doctors, nurses, health coaches and patients bond with the philosophy of integrative medicine and its whole-person approach...designed to treat the person, not just the disease.
While some of the therapies and treatment options recommended may be nonconventional in some peoples eyes, the guiding principle within our Integrative Health practice is to use therapies and treaments that have some high-quality evidence to support them.
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“Small Changes make a Big Difference”
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Dr. Mike Roizen, chief wellness officer for the Cleveland Clinic and author of “You: The Owners Manual” a guide to total body health, recently stated that in 2007 Americans spent 16.3 % of everything they produced on health care with that number expected to reach 19.6 by 2016.
He also stated on a recent telecast that our country’s health care is twice as expensive as Europe, Canada and Asia because of a higher rate of chronic conditions, but he said, that can change if people change their lifestyles.
With less and less time to address a patient's individual needs and yet more and more research and other information to digest, incorrect and incomplete diagnoses are frequently made.
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The Appeal of Integrative Medicine
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What makes Integrative Medicine Appealing? We strongly believe its the deep dissatisfaction with a health care system that often leaves doctors feeling rushed and overwhelmed and patients feeling as if they're nothing more than a name on a chart with a growing lists of prescriptions!
The Healthy Green Lifestyle Center and its health care team combine the best of conventional Western medicine and its diagnostic and assessment technologies with holistic, alternative and complementary treatments.
Treatments using herbal medicine, whole food supplements, essential oils, acupuncture, body cleansing and detoxification, hypnotherapy, massage, neuro integration therapy, yoga and stress reduction techniques all supported by health coaches that hold patients accountable for their progress...all in the effort to treat the whole person.
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These type of treatments are especially effective for those suffering from a growing lists of environmental and cronic illnesses. We as a population are becoming overloaded with "toxins" and our bodies are not designed to absorb or flush the daily bombardment of these toxins.
People suffering from "toxic overload" have multiple and overlapping symptoms and most traditional medical practices are not set up or designed to properly diagnose or treat these challenging illnesses.
We promise more time, better listening skills, more attention to You, health coaching support and a broader approach to healing...one that is not based solely on the Western health care model, but also draws from other cultures.
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Why Don't More Doctors Use Integrative Medicine?
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Two primary systems of medicine are typically available in the US:
Conventional Western (Allopathic) Medicine and Integrative or Alternative Medicine. Many Conventional practices have fallen into a habit of prescribing drugs that suppress the body's natural immune responses instead of treating the root causes.
This approach can work well when it comes to certain surgeries, emergency room visits and trauma.But there is no question that Integrative Medicine, which is more cost effective over the long term, works better for just about everything else, especially for many of today’s diseases that are dramtically on the rise.
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You may wonder why Integrative methods are not being used by more doctors. Although they are being used by many, too many mainstream doctors today become so specialized that they treat the body parts and forget they are treating the whole body.
Many Integrative methods work by assisting your body to heal itself instead of introducing strong drugs. They emphasize prevention and attack causes rather than symptoms. Experience shows that you're likely to get the best results with a practitioner who has trained in a number of different modalities.
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Your Health and your Very Life May Depend on It!
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There may be many underlying factors influencing your health ….poor digestion, nutritional deficiency, toxicity, emotional stress, etc. You want someone who is capable of determining exactly what must be done to help you regain your health...and your balance.
Many Integrative practitioners use high-tech, scientific diagnostic tools to pinpoint imbalances or underlying problems in your body. Through a series of assessments, a thorough line of questioning and good listening they can determine the probable root cause(s) and work with you toward a cure.
You also want someone who is open-minded and who treats you as a unique whole person. What's good for Jackie is not necessarily good for Susan. You are biochemically unique and you deserve to be treated as such.Your health and your very life depend on it!
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For example, the conventional doctor who has 20 patients with asthma will often provide each of them with the same protocol, thus treating the condition and not the patients themselves.
An Integrative practitioner realizes that asthma has many causes. Perhaps the cause is an allergic reaction or a viral infection or diminished nerve supply due to a misaligned spine. The practitioner will try to find the cause for each patient's condition and treat each differently.
This difference between approaches and the extra support and attention we provide through Health Coaching is the cornerstone of the Healthy Green Lifestyle Center’s family practice.
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Join in the Fun and Start a more Rewarding Life Today!
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Check Out These Additional Coaching Benefits
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Ask the Coach Clients will be able to ask any coach questions they wish on the Forum. This is a fantastic benefit for our coaching clients.
Online Forums As an Lifestyle Center client, you'll have access to the online forum and will be able to ask questions and interact with other coaching clients and life coaches for support, inspiration and useful resources.
Tools, Assessments and Quizzes As a client, you will have special and private access to numerous quizzes, coaching tools and assessment programs that will help you in every area of your life.
Coaching Call-in Days Every week we will host Strategic Life Coaching call-in days and, as a Healthy Green Lifestyle client you can call and speak directly to one of our coaches. Bring your questions, challenges or problems to the call.
Weekly Coaching Tips Every week you will receive a new coaching tip in your inbox.
A Friendly and Supportive Community of like-minded people who are making a difference in their lives and their communities!
Come join in the fun and start changing your life today!
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Athletes use a coach and a team for support; businesses owners have lawyers, engineers, and accountants to help them be successful.
Can you imagine how much your health and wellness would improve if you had your own Health Coach and the team support of an entire Lifestyle Center?
Well you don't have to imagine anymore. The Healthy Green Lifestyle Center is pleased to offer affordable and personalized Health Coaching programs so that just about everyone motivated can take advantage of the power of Coaching.
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Here are ways coaching participants use us. Which appeal to you?
* Brainstorming strategies together
* Support, encouragement and validation
* Insight into who you are and your potential
* Painting a vision of what you can become or accomplish
* Creating virtual "models" that you can follow
* Exploring and removing blocks and obstacles to your health
* Forming a Support Team to help as you move forward and accomplish your goals
* Accountability and Focus; Staying the Course
* Working through self-improvement programs together
* Suggesting or designing action steps
* Creating a Unique and Personalized Healthy Lifestyle Plan
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