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LOVE-ly Smells from Essential Oils
SmellsNormally I wake up in the morning with fresh air blowing through my home. The smells are fresh and nice. I live in a home that feels like a tree house. The view is trees, and trees, and trees. You may know that in the midst of the pandemic, I moved from...
Let the Love Begin!
Lucky In LoveI'm lucky in love. I love my partner in life (my husband) for the last 43 years, my children, grandchildren, my parents, my brothers and sister, my team, my friends, and you. I love my work. I love where I live and l love my life. When I wake up every...
Cathy’s Coaching Tips – Silence is Golden
Listening - Silence is GoldenListening is one of the most important coaching skills that a health coach uses. You may think that listening is a natural activity, it’s a very powerful coaching tool. Coaches are sometimes disappointed that would be all they do. If you...
12 Days of Giveaways
PresentsThe holidays are our favorite time. We love to give presents. Starting on Tuesday, December 13, we'll be giving away presents every day! We'll be giving out books from the special Guests on our Podcast, Health Coach Conversations. We'll be giving gift...
Healthy Gift Guide 2022-23
Cathy's BlogGifts for EveryoneWe always get to this point in time, and I wonder why I didn't start my shopping earlier. Gifts can be an expression and a connection point to the essential people in our lives. Husbands, children, grandchildren, parents, siblings,...
What Will Wellness Courses Do For You?
Online Programs Working for You and Your CustomersDiagnosing and treating are essential. Our doctors work to do that within their scope of practice. We have come to understand that it is not enough to wait to fix problems. It's like when our homeowner's association...
Meatless Alternatives
A Problem to SolveThere is no denying that there is a problem to be solved. I just interviewed Chloe Sorvino, Forbes Food Editor and Author of Raw Deal; Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat. It's an expose of the US meat industry,...
Lessons in Leadership – a New Post Template
Lessons in LeadershipBLOG STYLE We've been working off the same blog proportions of the perfect blog post according to 2010 mandates, and so, while discussing SEO last week, I decided it was time to change it up a bit. Twelve years pass pretty fast. While authenticity...
Done-For-You Programs and Return On Investment
What to expect from your done-for-you programOf course, we expect results for our clients. We can expect administrative and marketing support from a good program. Beneath it all, what we're expecting is a ROI - RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Purchasing a program or course for...
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Who’s That Knocking On My Door?
SEO for Health Coaches: Perception vs RealityWho’s That Knocking On My Door? It seems that there may be a misperception among some, that if you plop a program on the home page of an unadvertised website with little to no traffic, magically, customers will appear. As...
Transforming Lives With Research Driven Done-For-You Online Coaching
Transforming Lives With Research Driven Done-For-You Coaching Programs Expertly engineered, designed, and executed done-for-you online coaching programs providing coaches with the content needed to communicate lifestyle practices that resonate with the...
Managing Your Health
Managing Your Health Information Became Easier in 2021Managing Your Health. Thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act, managing our health information became a lot easier in 2021. Health information became available to us at no charge, usually through our patient portal,...
What Do People Say You Can Not Do?
Don't Let Anyone Tell You That You Can'tHas anyone ever told you that you can't do something? The priest told my friend to ask me to move away from the microphone while we were singing. That was 7th grade. Now that I'm older, I've noticed that my voice sounds...
The Coaching Session, Step-by-Step
What should your coaching session look like?
Some people lead their sessions with a health history. Others wing it and ask what the customer wants to discuss. And some coaches have a list of questions to go through, hoping not to run short on questions and long on time. A good coaching session runs an excellent middle road if you’re organized but flexible enough to change course when needed.
Journaling – One More Thing – Make it Fun
One More Thing - Make it Fun Use what you can to make journaling more fun and more helpful. There are lots of fun journals out there with questions that break it up a little. There are journals that focus on what is important to you and there are journals that make...
Journal for Fun, Clarity, and Successes
Journaling and IntrospectionEvery one of our courses include some type or style of journaling. Journaling and introspection can help create clarity in many areas of your life. Putting our thoughts, actions, feelings, and lives on paper can create an effective way to...
Inflammation – Health and Nutrition
Inflammation and Illness It has become increasingly obvious that chronic inflammation is the main cause of many chronic illnesses including heart disease, some cancers and Alzheimer's disease. We recognize inflammation as redness, heat, swelling and pain. It is a...
Too Many Medications with Too Little Monitoring
Too Many Medications Taking too many medications can be very dangerous. This is especially prevalent in geriatric patients. You get a prescription for prediabetes, and another for high cholesterol based on the results of a blood test. Then, as medical conditions...
Stress Management – Relief and Resilience
Stress Management techniques for health coaches- Relief and Resilience in Today's WorldIn the last few years, we've all lived through types and levels of stress that haven't been rated or studied. I'd love to hear from you about your experience with stress, how...
Selling Wellness
How To Sell Wellness Programs This blog has been growing inside of me all year. At the beginning of the year we had a large number of wellness practitioners coming to us to get their businesses online. Just like the virus waves, we are seeing another wave of...
Non-Dairy Calcium Sources
NON DAIRYAll I need to do to ensure a night of sleeplessness and trouble breathing is to eat something with dairy. It can be ice cream, pie, cheese, anything with dairy. It's not something I can comfortably sneak into my meals. I've gotten used to it. I can...
Social Media
Originally published 2/07/20, Updated 2/04/22 WHERE TO START Social Media has changed so much over time. I mastered Facebook reach and engagement for organic growth just in time for them to change their algorithms. Twitter always seemed like too much work for me,...
How to Start a Wellness Podcast
In How to Start a Wellness PodcastShould You Start a Wellness Podcast?My first suggestion is that you will need to learn how to start a podcast and you will want to decide if you should start a wellness podcast. I've been talking to you for years about the importance...