What is an Integrative Health Coach?
An Integrative Health Coach partners with you to create a personalized health plan that is responsive to your current health needs as it is adaptable to your future health. In my coaching, I begin with the Wheel of Health as a framework of our planning. I do not prescribe or recommend specific treatment options. I do provide resources for your consideration such as those contained in Duke Integrative Medicine’s Personalized Health Plan Manual.
What is The Wheel of Health Model?
The Wheel of Health is based on two important premises:
- The human mind and body have essential capacities for self repair that can be supported and enhanced by our life choices as well as appropriate therapies and medical interventions.
- Optimal Health is a journey, a process, and it requires frequent reassessing and rebalancing.
There are seven dimensions of Self-Care on The Wheel of Health that will help guide you along your journey to optimal health and wellness:
Movement, exercise, and rest
Nutrition
Physical Environment
Relationships and communication
Spirituality
Personal and Professional Development
Mind Body Connection
You: Discovering your health goals
The roadmap to your optimal health rests within you. The first and most critical step is to know what you want from your health -- and why. Combining and coordinating all the dimensions that you are will help you to understand what your health goals are. It is not always easy or straightforward, but it can be fun! As a health coach, I will use simple tools to help guide you. Our work together will give you time for deep, personal reflection and introspection that will help you understand where you are and where you want to be!
When you are ready....
Contact me at joyceaevans@gmail.com or 203.216.2171
