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Dealing With Clients Who Struggle to Comply

Do your clients struggle to comply? In a perfect world, as a health coach, you would have a base of ideal clients. Clients who are completely committed to their health and willing to do everything needed to improve it. And do it regularly. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. That means there will be times when you face a challenging client who struggles to make necessary changes. These clients struggle to do the things they need to do ...
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Managing Your Stress as a Health Coach

As a health coach, you want nothing more than to help others navigate the road back to good health. It’s hard to watch people struggle because they just don’t feel great. And you’ve made a commitment to help your clients make the changes they need to make to get healthy again. A large part of why they are struggling in the first place is chronic stress. Stress is a normal part of life. The stress response was designed to help ...
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Resources for Understanding Licensing Restrictions in Your State

Licensed practitioners are not alone in helping patients better themselves. Non-licensed practitioners have been and continue to be a growing source of information and support for those who need it. As a non-licensed practitioner, you want to help guide clients to wellness while making sure you follow the regulations put in place to avoid legal repercussions. We’ll look at some of the dos and don’ts based on common regulations and resources you can use to familiarize yourself with your state’s ...
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Job Opportunities for Health Coaches

What are the job opportunities and outlook for health coaches? Each year more and more individuals are looking for alternate options for health care. And, with a rise in diseases like obesity1 and diabetes2, so it’s no wonder people are turning to health coaches to offer new types of treatment. The Job Market Outlook The job outlook and demand for health coaches are growing rapidly. The job market is expected to expand by 13% by 2029 for health coaches and ...
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Do Health Coaches Need Insurance?

Do health coaches need insurance? Health coaches can be instrumental when it comes to helping someone adopt a healthier lifestyle. It can be difficult to define the role of a health coach, as they can help with a wide variety of health issues from weight loss and stress reduction to the management of chronic conditions. ¹ With so many different services offered comes an abundance of liability. Like many other professionals, health coaches need to protect themselves from complaints and ...
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The Many Benefits of Health Coaching for Nurses

The Many Benefits of Health Coaching for Nurses

Health coaching is being rapidly implemented into the contemporary health care system and can be used by a wide range of health professionals. Within this, health coaching offers a number of potential benefits for nurses looking to enhance and optimize their skillset.  Principle and Practice: Similarities Between Health Coaching and Nursing One of the main reasons nurses can benefit from health coaching education is that the nature of health coaching fits right in with the nursing philosophy of holistic patient ...
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Tools of the Trade in the Wellness Space Vs Illness Space

Contrasting the tools of the trade in the wellness and illness spaces, FDN® Practitioners follow well-established principles in uncovering healing opportunities for their Health Coaching clients. Those clients, at the same time, are often under the care of medical doctors for specific conditions and have often received very particular diagnoses and been offered prescription medications to help manage those conditions.  While the diet, lifestyle and supplements suggested by a health coach are generally safe and natural, clients should check with ...
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3 Critical Factors of Dietary Supplement Formulations

The 2002 World Health Report anticipated that by the year 2020 chronic non-communicable disease would attribute to 73% of all deaths and 60% of the global disease burden. In the report, The World Health Organization (WHO) stated the need for the “development of an integrated approach that will target all major common risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes mellitus (DM), cancer and chronic respiratory diseases in the most cost-effective way to prevent and control them.” These assertions and statistics ...
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3 Ways Functional Diagnostic Practitioners Are Different Than Health Coaches

20 years ago, most people had likely never heard of health coaches. But now in the US, the health coaching industry has grown into a $7 billion dollar industry. And health coaching is expected to continue to grow. Those who pursue training in health coaching have a desire and passion to help others stop struggling with health issues and feel good again. And health coaches play a vital role in providing support and accountability for clients as they look to ...
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