We all know the basics of how to be “healthy.” So, what stops us from filling our plates with vegetables, avoiding the soda, and exercising everyday? It’s often a little more nuanced than simply being too tired or lazy. That’s where a Integrative Wellness Coaching can help you get to the bottom of it!

What is Wellness Coaching?

Integrative Wellness Coaching is an approach to patient care that combines nutrition and lifestyle to incorporate wellness into everyday life. True wellness goes beyond just what you consume. Your career, relationships, creativity, finances, social life, and home environment all play a role in health. Just as you can have vitamin or mineral deficiencies, so too, can you have deficiencies in your routine and life that contribute to illness and dis-ease. By looking at the whole picture, we are able to explore how what you consume and what consumes your time either nourish or deplete you.

Benefits of coaching:

• Set and achieve goals
• Explore new foods
• Understand and reduce cravings
• Increase energy
• Sleep better
• Learn what nutrition means for you
• Feel better in your body
• Improve personal relationships

What does an Integrative Wellness Coach do?

A Wellness Coach is your personal advocate and health partner, inspiring you to live an energized and passionate life so you can live better, longer. The goal is to empower patients to create happy, healthy lives in a way that is flexible, fun, and that frees them from fad diets, self-sabotaging stories, and the endless cycle of stress. By working together, we can discover the tools and lifestyle choices that best support you. Making gradual, bio-individualized changes enables you to reach your goals and make health a sustainable, lasting part of your life.

In today’s world, health is more crucial than ever. Too often, we treat patients at Gateway Natural Medicine who have been given a whole lifetime of poor nutrition and health advice. Instead of encouraging people to listen to what their body is trying to tell them, our medical system teaches us to medicate the pain away and suppress anything that inconveniences our busy lives. Given half a chance, the body will heal itself. We just have to set it up for success and get comfortable with a little discomfort, in order to achieve health that relies on nourishment, not pharmaceuticals.

Is Wellness Coaching for me?

We offer wellness coaching for both existing patients, as well as patients new to Gateway Natural Medicine. If you currently have a practitioner you see at Gateway, ask them how wellness coaching could fit into your current health plan. If you aren’t yet established as a patient, call to set up a complimentary 15 minute consultation with a practitioner.

Who will my Coach be?

Dawn Noyes is our dedicated Wellness Coach. She earned her Integrative Nutrition Coaching certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she received in-depth training in nutrition, health and wellness, coaching skills, and business development. Recognizing a need for techniques to overcome emotional eating, she has completed courses for this specific concern. She also has training in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), which helps patients reprogram limiting believes, release attachment to unhealthy foods, and break through the “plateau” that many seem to get stuck at. Dawn coaches individuals and groups on how to integrate nutrition into a healthy lifestyle, as well as leads workshops on nutrition, mindfulness, and home health using natural alternatives.

Have you been wanting to:

• Improve your eating habits?
• Understand your body better?
• Overcome emotional eating?
• Make self-care a priority in your life?
• Feel confident in choosing and preparing better food for you and your loved ones?
• Experience an increase in overall happiness in your life?

Set up a complimentary 15 minute consultation to discover how a Wellness Coach is the key to achieving your health goals, and making them stick! Book online or call the office (970) 532-2755.