Health Coaching

Health Coach Salary and Career Outlook 2023

Are you considering a career as a health coach? If so, you’re not alone. The health coaching industry is growing rapidly as more people become aware of the importance of a holistic approach to health and wellness. Health coaching is now part of a $16 billion industry with no signs of slowing down.  The career can[...]

What Is A Health Coach? Why It’s NOT A Wellness Coach.

In the past decade, we have seen a shift in healthcare from a focus on treating diseases to a focus on preventing them. We understand that helping patients change their lifestyles to manage chronic illness benefits them and the healthcare system as a whole. As more healthcare professionals get on board with this philosophy, the need for health[...]

The 8 Best Health Coach Certifications In 2023

Are you overwhelmed by all of the health coach certification choices available online? With so many options, it is hard to determine which health coach certifications are reputable and which ones will most successfully give you the knowledge you need to start your career in coaching. To help you research programs and choose the one that’s[...]

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 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[...]