A health and wellness coach is someone who provides a judgment-free environment for one to achieve their health recovery goals and holistic wellness through sustainable lifestyle and behavioral changes. Being a health and wellness coach can impact your life in numerous ways, which we would be discussing further in the article. But first, let’s have a look at the role of a health & wellness coach. If you are familiar with the topic beforehand, you can skip ahead!
Role of a Health and Wellness Coach
The role of a health and wellness coach is to enable others to achieve life transformation through meaningful interactions and helping them identify the behavioral obstacles that are hampering their health and wellness goals. For example, someone seeking the guidance of a health and wellness coach for smoking cessation will find himself/herself in an environment that is free of any judgements and allows them to identify and resolve the behavioral aspect aiding their addiction.
How can being a health and wellness coach impact your personal life?
We have frequently heard the phrase in our life that ‘we often become the things we preach’, and it is absolutely true in the case of health and wellness. Let’s briefly discuss the impact of guiding clients on health and wellness on the life of a coach:
1.You start to feel more satisfied and fulfilled: When we help others, however small it may be, it makes us feel happy and satisfied and ignites an emotion that ‘I have done something good today. Our small act of kindness manifests as personal satisfaction and creates a significant shift in our life and purpose. Similarly, when a health and wellness coach helps people live a healthier lifestyle, at the end of each day, s/he feels satisfied and fulfilled with their work as there is no act as euphoric as empowering others.
2.Positive perspective towards life: Amongst the day-to-day responsibilities of a health and wellness coach, helping people build a positive mindset about life and its meaning is the most important of all duties. It is only natural to start believing the things you suggest to others as it is the first self-transformation one would undergo while training to become a health & wellness coach. With time, you begin to develop a positive perspective towards life (if you don’t have it already) after guiding and assisting people with their holistic wellness journey.
3.Clear and peaceful mind: After listening to people all day and helping your clients, you experience a sense of inner peace knowing that you contribute to a great cause and your contributions to society matter. Eventually, You also apply the advice you give to your clients in your personal life. For instance, if you suggest your client exercises more often, at the back of your mind, your subconscious multiplies the thought and motivates you to exercise too.
4.Positive outlook towards challenges: When your client approaches you with a challenge or difficulty in their goals or life, what do you do? You listen to their problem and suggest they remain optimistic without invalidating their feelings and then recommend the best path to move forward as per your capabilities and expertise. In the same way, when you face a challenge in life, you start associating your problems with the advice you give to your clients. You develop a positive outlook towards difficulties in life, which provides you with the patience, strength, and attitude to rectify your mistakes and optimally face situations of crisis.
5.Emotional Wellbeing: Your certification journey and the client-coach interactions during the actual sessions enable you to undergo significant shifts regarding your self-affinity and emotional wellbeing. In the long term, you understand and accept your emotions, however distressing they might feel at times. You recognize that everything you think doesn’t define your worth, and it is okay to feel unstable at times.
6.Acceptance of mistakes: It is human nature to make mistakes, and it is time we normalize them. Being a health and fitness coach teaches you that making mistakes is okay and honestly unachievable as perfection is a myth.
Conclusion
While we highlighted some of the many shifts that being a health and wellness coach subjects one to, we also need to address the fact that it can take a toll on you if you stretch yourself too thin. Every profession needs a break once in a while, and it is essential to let yourself relax if you feel like it. Having the support of a community in such times can be a big help as it empowers you through the possibilities of interaction and engagement with like-minded people. Weljii, India’s premium health and wellness coaching institute enables this support for you through our comprehensive health and wellness coach certification program that provides you with mentorship, all necessary learning & training resources, and a thriving community.
