Frequently Asked Questions

Healthcare Clinicians

Top 3 Things Healthcare Clinicians Want A spry, fully-vaccinated 93-yr old female resident in an Assisted Living Facility confided in me recently…”I’ll never go into lock-down again! Covid or no Covid…I’d rather die.” She didn’t have plans for how she would manage to live elsewhere with unstable heart failure, but she was fully committed to[...]

Health Starts with Water

After all, our bodies are 75% water. So, we teach anyone who’ll listen to drink plenty of water to maintain a healthy balance. More specifically, adequate water intake: HOW WATER CONSUMPTION HAS CHANGED More people today drink water than in the past. The Great Generation consumed colas, iced tea, and coffee, while the Baby Boomers[...]

Health Coaching Psychology

About an hour later, Charlie, the neighbor’s dog with a note tied around his neck came over to the house where the little boy was staying. The neighbor watched through her patio door to make sure that Charlie made it to his destination.  As Charlie walked slowly across the yard toward the little boy playing[...]

Health Coaching

Differing roles of health, wellness, and life coaches continue to abound from company to company…program to program… A mishmash of sorts? How can we gain consensus about these roles? ….How did we get here? …Early adopters of “worksite health promotion” in the ’50s ushered in new approaches and new terms…“coaching” began to evolve… How Did We Get[...]

Health Coach vs Wellness Coaching

What is Health Coaching? HEALTH COACHING is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical strategies, and interventions to actively and safely engage patients/families/clients in health behavior change to better self-manage their health, health risk(s), and acute or chronic health conditions resulting in optimal wellness and recovery, improved health outcomes, lowered health risk and decreased healthcare costs[...]

Health Coach Communication

Last week, we looked at the tendencies of five U.S. age-specific generations that have been defined. This week, we’ve added preferences and some characteristics related to the healthcare of these generational groups, hoping this will help clinician health coaches enhance their engagement with patients/families and achieve better outcomes as a result! The GREAT or SILENT[...]

Health Benefits of Walking

Why didn’t we set out on foot immediately? Were we too tired at the moment? Did we not have on the right shoes? Or did it simply not come to mind? Great for Overall Health The truth is Americans aren’t used to walking as a means of getting about, which also is a clue to[...]

Health Behavior Focus

Ms. Smith is a 60 yr.-old active adult who has just returned home following surgical repair of a torn rotator. She has a history of osteoarthritis and hypertension. Her decision to have this surgery was a difficult one. She has friends who also had this same surgery in the past. Their stories of the severe[...]

Health Behavior Change

The New Year is the beginning of a new time period; leaving the past behind; leaving habits that you didn’t particularly care for but found hard to put behind you until now. Considering the New Year, many people feel like shedding the old and adopting the new! This often translates into thoughts of a better[...]

Health and Nutrition

Not too long ago, Mary Maloy, Registered Dietitian, NSHC Certified Health Coach, and member of NSHC’s Professional Advisory Board, assembled an amazing cookbook of her special recipes that she developed especially for her local New Haven Fire Department (NHFD).  Mary knows the impact health and nutrition play in the lives of these firefighters Mary appears in this photo above[...]