Welcome to Smart Fit Womxn!  We’re so glad you clicked on this post.  Here you’ll find the one thing we think will revolutionize your health (spoiler alert:  it’s wellness coaching!), how we seek to serve you with your health goals, and how you can get started working with a wellness coach today!

You know you want to live a healthy life.  You want to look and feel your best, having energy to live out your full potential, be there for your kids and grandkids, or simply enjoy the body you’re in.  But each tip, trick, new exercise, or new diet you’ve tried has only left you feeling worse about yourself when you inevitably give it up because it’s not sustainable.

We get it.

It seems like new habits won’t stick, as if we’re all doomed to living in a perpetual state of unhealth and low energy.  Simultaneously, we’re bombarded with expectations of what we should look like to be beautiful, successful womxn.  The whole system makes us feel like failures.

Enter wellness coaching.

When you work with a wellness coach, you uncover your deepest internal motivation for why you want to get healthy, which will then inform the goals you set.  Why is this a better process?  Instead of listening to the outside voices of what you should be doing, you find what actually drives you and we help you leverage that to make sustainable changes. Turns out the magic happens when we stop “shoulding” on ourselves.

And you know what?  People are seeing success.

The research on wellness coaching is in its beginning stages, but the outcomes are promising.  When used as an adjunct therapy, coaching shows positive psychological outcomes for cancer patients, lowered A1C values for diabetics, and improved risk factors for heart disease patients¹. And while more studies are needed, coaching has the potential to be a valuable method of helping with weight reduction in obese patients and effectively increasing exercise and healthy eating behaviors.^1,2,3,4,5

Why this success?  Coaching helps you pair your personal motivators with your unique strengths and resources, so you can achieve your health goals in the midst of real life.

And that’s not all.

A wellness coach will help you clarify your own personal vision of health, which will take that ambiguous phrase “I want to be healthier” and turn it into a detailed picture of what success on your health journey looks like to YOU.

So, how do you get started?  It’s easy.  Simply follow the steps below:

• Sign up here!

• Watch for an email from us to set up your first online appointment (the first one is free!) and fill out a health form so we can get to know you better

• Your coach will call you on Skype or Zoom when it’s time to meet!

We’re tired of seeing womxn feel like they’re failing at living healthy lives.  Let go of the old cycle of starting and quitting unsustainable health habits and begin working with us today!

 

Written by Brittni Paris, Wellness Coach & Blogger

 

Sources:
¹Sforzo, G.A., Kaye, M.P., Todorova, I., Harenberg, S., Costello, K., Cobus-Kuo, L.,…Moore, M.  (2017).  Compendium of the health and wellness coaching literature. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 12(6):  436-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1559827617708562

²Clark, M.M., Bradley, K.L., Jenkins, S.M., Mettler, E.A., Larson, B.G., Preston, H.R.,…Vickers Douglas, K.S.  (2015).  Improvements in health behaviors, eating self-efficacy, and goal-setting skills following participation in wellness coaching.  American Journal of Health Promotion, 30(6):  458-464.  https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140627-QUAL-304

³Blackwell, J., Collins, M., Scribner, C., Guillen, J., Moses, K., Gregory-Mercado, K.  Health and wellness coaching implemented by trainees: impact in worksite wellness. (2019).  Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 8.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2164956119831226

⁴Rutten, G.M., Meis, J.J., Hendriks, M.R., Hamers, F.J., Veenhof, C., Kremers, S.P.  (2014). The contribution of lifestyle coaching of overweight patients in primary care to more autonomous motivation for physical activity and healthy dietary behaviour: results of a longitudinal study. Int J Behav Nurt Phys Act., 11(86).  DOI: 10.1186/s12966-014-0086-z.

⁵Lancha, A.H., Sforzo, G.A., Pereira-Lancha, L.O.  (2018).  Improving nutritional habits with no diet prescription details of a nutritional coaching process.  Am J Lifestyle Med.  12:  160–165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1559827616636616

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