Life coaching and positive lifestyle change

Living a healthy, balanced life is a goal most of us aspire to. We understand the benefits of adopting healthy lifestyle choices, for instance, losing weight, exercising, eating healthy foods, drinking in moderation and quitting smoking. However, knowing what’s right and actually doing it are two different things. It is not easy to make positive lifestyle changes and it’s even harder to make them stick. If it were easy, there would be far fewer self-help groups, fad diets, addiction-beating aids and burgeoning gym memberships at the start of each year.

So if you are trying to:

Lose weight
Improve your general health
Overcome the effects of earlier poor health
Identify ways to change your life for the better
Stick to a commitment you’ve made to improve your lifestyle
Deal with an addiction or recurrent problem area

Effective life coaching could help you:

Clarify your motivation for changing your life in positive ways
Feel positive about taking up the challenge
Understand why past attempts may have been unsuccessful
Work out a realistic strategy and timeline for change
Recognise how to sustain long-term, lasting benefits

I believe that positive change comes about when people feel in control and happy about their choices. I don’t think that by being angry with ourselves we can force ourselves to achieve some goal or other. I work with clients to have them identify what’s really behind their desire for change and help them see the way forward as a positive process, rather than a pressured effort to achieve some outcome.