What the heck do I do as a health coach if I can't give advice? 

Here's the simple way to explain it..... We don't tell you that you need oxygen. But when you are told you need oxygen, we help you look at why you were told that and how you can fit doing the things to get oxygen into your daily habits and what are the barriers to you doing those and then brainstorm together ways to overcome those barriers. And then we keep accountability on these things.

great video!!! thanks!

Incredibly helpful. Thank you

Extremely helpful, yes. Thank you.

Really great tips of the overall process. Michelle your advise is always so helpful!

Thank you ! That was so helpful and inspiring ! :)

Fantastic tips and overview. So glad I found you!

It took me a minute to find you, and now I did. Thank you! I hope you find the info you were talking about in the video. It sounds very informative.

thank you Michelle, always enriching to listen to your videos. :)

Nice video! Just wanted to let you know “enroll” has two Ls -on your website page, probably easy fix. Congratulations on your program!

Thank you

HI Michelle, I am currently RN and trying to decided between Health Coach & Holistic RN. The area I am most interested in coaching is the meditation area. Knowing that....which do you think is better fit? Thank you, Carl

It's good ur honest and upfront. The amount of coaches I've seen overstepping their role in mental and physical health is scary

Great explanation. I’ve been overthinking this for a while. It does seem scary to work in this field dealing with people health. I guess you never know until you try, but having integrity is key to mitigate risks. When you know how the body works, you’re just sharing facts (ie. The body needs vitamin d). Then being supportive in how they choose to improve their levels. They can get more sunlight, they might want to take a supplement, etc.

Hi there! I love your content and it’s very helpful! If you have a moment would you mind sharing some of your wisdom…? I’m currently studying to become a health coach and feeling some dread because it’s not what I expected. I feel that my title will come across as deceptive to clients. I know that many people hire health coaches because the title “health coach” implies that they will coach you on improving your health. So that’s their expectation…. the title “health coach” seems extremely deceptive if health coaches cannot give health advice. If I hired a health coach and they were just using psychological tactics on me every session, I’d feel very annoyed, like I’ve wasted my time and money… BECAUSE of the misleading title. It sounds more like a life coach or behavioral change coach. Those may be more appropriate titles. I don’t like it and it feels sneaky. I don’t want to be inauthentic. Also, I’ve been on both sides, and when clients ask direct questions, it’s SO annoying when the coach says “Tell me more about that,” or “What do you already know about that?” AND NEVER get around to answering the question themselves, and provide resources for the health issues going on… it’s weird. I know It’s how the health coaches have been trained, but it comes across as shady, and evasive and actually causes the client to lose confidence and trust in the coach because it feels extremely evasive, as if the coach doesn’t know anything about the particular topic introduced. It feels like the coach is talking in circles and avoiding or buying time because they have no clue about the health topic I mentioned. I feel like I made a huge mistake investing thousands of dollars in this course. I have a feeling that many clients will dump me when they realize they’re not actually getting the health advice they were seeking in the first place.

HOW DO WE FIND A HEALTH COACH??

If you can make suggestions, then isn’t that practically the same as advice? And isn’t the implementation of a behavioral change process predicated on the notions that come from you as the coach and your opinions and suggestions?

I had no idea people could health coach without being a medical professional. That's a bit worrisome.