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Today I am answering the question of what a Health Coach does and how a Health Coach can support you living with Celiac Disease.
Learn more about Ultimate Celiac System here
www.belindawhelan.com/ultimateceliacsystem
Join my free community and grab your copy of 11 Mistakes People Make Living Gluten Free here www.belindawhelan.myflodesk.com/11mistakes
And I would love to connect with you on Instagram thehealthyceliac
If you have a spare moment, please pop over to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review. Thank you!
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Now lately
Speaker 2:I've had a few people reach
Speaker 1:Out to me and ask me, what
Speaker 2:Is health coaching? Because I have talked
Speaker 1:A little bit on the show
Speaker 2:Over previous episodes
Speaker 1:About my health coaching. And I guess I haven't really explained it or talked about it too much in
Speaker 2:Depth. So I thought I would
Speaker 1:Take the opportunity to talk
Speaker 2:About it
Speaker 1:On this
Speaker 2:Episode so
Speaker 1:That you can learn a little bit more about what
Speaker 2:A health coach does in particular, what
Speaker 1:I do and how it's different from say something like a life
Speaker 2:Coach or a
Speaker 1:Personal trainer, or even a nutritionist or a dietician.
Speaker 2:So I
Speaker 1:Started my health coaching business back in 2013. It was, And
Speaker 2:I
Speaker 1:Absolutely
Speaker 2:Love health coaching. It's
Speaker 1:Probably the most rewarding career move I
Speaker 2:Have ever taken.
Speaker 1:Um, I actually stumbled across it one day on the internet. And as soon as I read the description about what a health
Speaker 2:Coach was,
Speaker 1:I fell in love with the idea and I could totally
Speaker 2:Visualize
Speaker 1:Myself doing that and helping others. And
Speaker 2:I, I basically
Speaker 1:Made it my mission to be
Speaker 2:Able to
Speaker 1:Grow a business and to walk away from my part-time job in an office space that
Speaker 2:I
Speaker 1:Absolutely despised.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so I, I started
Speaker 1:To become a health And
Speaker 2:Yeah, to, to
Speaker 1:Say that it was life changing is, is basically an understatement because The amount of flow on effect from me taking that career move has just been astronomical. The amount of people that I've personally been able to help has been so
Speaker 2:Rewarding.
Speaker 1:Now, when I first started my career in, in health coaching, I was doing one on one coaching with clients and also
Speaker 2:Small group group coaching.
Speaker 1:And then I started to move into the online space and doing group coaching in, um, the online space via
Speaker 2:Zoom. So, yeah, so that's basically how it
Speaker 1:All started for me. So
Speaker 2:What is a health coach? So a health coach is
Speaker 1:Different from other type of coaching in that what
Speaker 2:I do as a health coach
Speaker 1:Is I encompass what's
Speaker 2:Called
Speaker 1:Primary food and secondary food. Now that might sound a little bit
Speaker 2:Crazy
Speaker 1:To you and what am I talking about?
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:I'll explain it to you
Speaker 2:Quickly. So primary food is basically
Speaker 1:Things that are going on in your life That don't revolve around food.
Speaker 2:So these areas are your career,
Speaker 1:Your, uh, physical
Speaker 2:Activity
Speaker 1:Or your movement, your relationships and your spirituality.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:If something in those
Speaker 2:Areas is
Speaker 1:Out of alignment, it can
Speaker 2:Affect your life.
Speaker 1:So not only do I help
Speaker 2:With people with
Speaker 1:Their food and their eating and making sure they're on top of everything to do with gluten free and celiac
Speaker 2:Disease, I help
Speaker 1:People in these
Speaker 2:Key areas as well.
Speaker 1:Now, when we talk about spirituality, I'm not just
Speaker 2:Talking about
Speaker 1:God, you might not be spiritual in that way, but you might have, um, more of a new age awareness, or you might be into Something completely different. That's not anything to do
Speaker 2:With religion, but it's your spirituality. So it's where
Speaker 1:You fit in the, where
Speaker 2:You see yourself, things
Speaker 1:Like that. And then obviously when it comes to career, many people have changed their careers in the past couple
Speaker 2:Of years because they've realized what's
Speaker 1:Really important to them. And unfortunately it does take something like COVID
Speaker 2:And
Speaker 1:Lockdowns and things like that for
Speaker 2:A lot of us to realize
Speaker 1:That there's more to life than
Speaker 2:Just
Speaker 1:Doing the same old thing and the same old grind.
Speaker 2:So yeah, career's a big one physical activity. Obviously people
Speaker 1:That don't
Speaker 2:Look after their bodies,
Speaker 1:Um, by not exercising, That's one area that they fall down with. And then obviously
Speaker 2:Relationships is huge because
Speaker 1:You can have issues in your relationships and, and that
Speaker 2:Causes issues
Speaker 1:As well. And we, when we talk about relationships, I'm not just talking about, um, say
Speaker 2:A couple, it can be
Speaker 1:Your parents. It can
Speaker 2:Be your work colleagues.
Speaker 1:It can be your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2:If,
Speaker 1:If something's out of whack in your relationships, that
Speaker 2:Can also cause issues.
Speaker 1:So then we talk about secondary food. So
Speaker 2:Secondary food is actually food
Speaker 1:And water, things
Speaker 2:Like that. So
Speaker 1:Yeah, anything you consume and anything that you drink goes into
Speaker 2:Your secondary food. So what I do is
Speaker 1:I help clients work on creating a
Speaker 2:Basically as, as perfect of a lifestyle as possible
Speaker 1:Around primary food and secondary food. And what
Speaker 2:A coach does, which is
Speaker 1:Really different to
Speaker 2:Other people is a health coach helps
Speaker 1:Clients
Speaker 2:To achieve
Speaker 1:Their own goals.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:When my clients came to me in a one-on-one basis, We would sit down at the first session and we would write
Speaker 2:Out goals, but
Speaker 1:I would not set those goals for my clients. They
Speaker 2:Would have to set those goals for themselves because
Speaker 1:There's no point in getting someone else to
Speaker 2:Tell you what you should be achieving. You need to work that out for yourself. So a health health coach actually helps you
Speaker 1:See that and, and work that
Speaker 2:Out for yourself. So, yeah, it's pretty cool actually, the way that
Speaker 1:I can,
Speaker 2:I guess, pull it out of people,
Speaker 1:What they wanna achieve and what changes they need to make. So
Speaker 2:I've
Speaker 1:Worked with many, many different clients from all different walks of
Speaker 2:Life,
Speaker 1:Different backgrounds, different health
Speaker 2:Issues, from things like ulcerative colitis to their
Speaker 1:Hair, falling out in clumps
Speaker 2:To
Speaker 1:Being
Speaker 2:Overweight
Speaker 1:And not knowing what the problem was. Cuz they
Speaker 2:Tried
Speaker 1:Every diet under the sun, it turned out they were in a really crappy relationship and that was holding them
Speaker 2:Back. So there's
Speaker 1:Lots of different things that
Speaker 2:I help people with.
Speaker 1:Um, but it's only really been in the last
Speaker 2:Sort of five
Speaker 1:To seven years that
Speaker 2:I've really focused
Speaker 1:On celiac disease and helping people with
Speaker 2:Celiac disease specifically Because
Speaker 1:It's something that I, I love the most. I love helping people the most with this
Speaker 2:Because I
Speaker 1:Have so much more of an expertise in our, and I love
Speaker 2:To be able to help people thrive with their celiac disease because I truly believe
Speaker 1:That when we get on top of it, we can feel so much better. We can feel so much more confident in ourselves. We can feel so much more happier and we can just live such a
Speaker 2:Better
Speaker 1:Life when we are on top of
Speaker 2:Every,
Speaker 1:Everything that encompasses
Speaker 2:Life basically. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1:All very well and good making sure that all of those things are lined up with gluten free and cross-contamination and all those
Speaker 2:Things. But
Speaker 1:The thing is, if something's out of whack
Speaker 2:Elsewhere
Speaker 1:Within your life, then that can
Speaker 2:Cause health
Speaker 1:Issues that you may not even be realizing, whether it be anxiety or
Speaker 2:Dress or
Speaker 1:You know, bloating. And you're not even realizing that it's actually
Speaker 2:From
Speaker 1:Stress belly and it's not from gluten.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:I help my clients get to
Speaker 2:The root cause of all of
Speaker 1:These types of things and to improve and, and make these things better.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:It's, it's an incredible
Speaker 2:Career.
Speaker 1:It's an incredible
Speaker 2:Job.
Speaker 1:If you wanna call it a job. And
Speaker 2:It
Speaker 1:It's just one of those things that
Speaker 2:When I first started, people
Speaker 1:Didn't know what
Speaker 2:A health coach was. They would say, oh, so are you like a
Speaker 1:Personal trainer? Oh, is that what you do? No, I'm, I'm not a, I'm not a personal trainer. I have nothing to do
Speaker 2:With
Speaker 1:Teaching people about
Speaker 2:Physical activity.
Speaker 1:I
Speaker 2:Help people, people discover the exercise or
Speaker 1:The movement that they enjoy the most
Speaker 2:So that they will
Speaker 1:Actually go out and do it.
Speaker 2:Because
Speaker 1:For me, I personally, don't like having someone yelling and screaming at me to do things. I don't work that way.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:Personal trainers are not my gen. If you're a personal trainer, you've
Speaker 2:Obviously got people that
Speaker 1:Adore you and love you. And that's fantastic, but personal trainers are not for everybody. And I know they don't all yell and scream. Don't get me wrong. But in my experience, the personal trainers that I've worked with in the past
Speaker 2:Just
Speaker 1:Didn't work for me at all.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:That is not what a health coach
Speaker 2:Does. A health coach helps
Speaker 1:You understand which
Speaker 2:Types of exercise works
Speaker 1:For your unique body,
Speaker 2:Lifestyle,
Speaker 1:Personality, things like that.
Speaker 2:So that's very cool as
Speaker 1:Well that you can find that out by working with a health coach. I have gone on since to do further
Speaker 2:Study.
Speaker 1:I've done study very recently about fo maps. Um, I've done further study to become hypnotherapist and I'm also currently studying further
Speaker 2:About the law
Speaker 1:Of attraction. So yeah, I'm always learning. I'm almost always growing and I'm always focusing on how I can become a better person so that I can become a better coach because in life I think we never stop learning. We're always learning. We can always be better and, and achieve more. And I feel that by helping others, it helped me so much as well. So if you've never heard of health coaching, I hope this gives you a good explanation of what a health coach does depending on where you live. You may be able to find a health coach that you can work with in a one-on-one basis. Or you may like to seek someone out that you can work with online. I am going to be very, very soon launching again, group program. So if that's something that you are interested in, you are more than welcome to send me an email or send me a D DM on Instagram. And just let me know that you wanna be on the wait list to find out more about that. Um, but yeah, I'm very excited to be doing group coaching again, because I did step away for a little bit from the coaching, just spend my family. So yeah, I'm, I'm excited to get back into that space again. And yeah. So I just wanted to share with you very quickly this week about health coaching in case it's something you'd never really understood when I've dropped it a mention of it in my episode. So yeah, if you've got any more questions, let me know. I'm more than happy to answer them. So feel free to hit me up on, um, either Instagram via healthy celiac, or you can send me an email info, Belinda wheel.com and I will respond to you there. So thank you so much for listening and I will be back to talk with you again next week. Have a fantastic week. I'll talk with you then. Bye.