Everyone’s health journey is unique, which means sometimes following along with pre-structured plans doesn’t work so well creating the health transformation that you’re seeking. That’s why I’m here offering 1-on-1 sessions to help guide you through your unique health journey.
While everyone’s journey is unique, I’ve found that there are general patterns that most individuals follow, and that’s what I’ve put together as The Journey to Better Health (outlined below) to help guide your health transformation. The Journey to Better Health is a path that most individuals follow as they go from unhealthy to healthy and fit individuals prepared to take on life every single day, and to do so for decades to come.
As a Biomedical Engineer, that’s what I’m focused on: helping you understand pathways of good health vs. disease so that you are equipped to make healthy decisions for your own body.
As a health coach, I’m focused on helping you go through with those healthy decisions – that is, establishing healthy behavior in your life so that you are taking your own self – body and mind – through the transformative process that is becoming a healthier individual. Meanwhile, I can help you understand how disease tends to arise and progress so that you are prepared to make healthier decisions for a lifetime.
Finally, I’ve come to understand that oftentimes, there is a lot more “stuff” that comes up as we go about our lives trying to make healthier decisions. Logic, reason, and willpower aren’t usually enough to get us through the journey. That’s what brought me to Yoga Therapy – I had been seeking another toolkit consisting of practices that help us through challenging transformations of our body and mind. Yoga provided some effective answers.
I am currently offering four types of coaching aligned with the different phases of The Journey to Better Health:
- Basic health coaching: learn to replace your current behaviors with healthier behaviors that best support your body.
- Disease-focused health coaching: learn more about pathways of poor health and disease progression so that you are better-capable of warding off disease and maintaining a healthy body for decades to come.
- Performance-balanced health coaching: sometimes in life, we have to make difficult decisions regarding trade-offs between reaching goals and being healthy. I can help you understand the trade-offs you may be making regarding your health so that you can make well-informed decisions about what you go after in life.
- Body/Mind focused health coaching: oftentimes it isn’t enough to work directly with data and logic to produce the health transformation we’re seeking. When that’s the case, we need practices that enable us to tune into our own selves to find the answers to what our bodies need most.
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The Journey to Better Health
Stage 0: Overcoming Dysregulation
- It’s common for individuals seeking to become healthier to jump straight into the challenging work that is sorting through information and working to take aligned action with different diets and exercise plans. However, I’ve found that people end up going nowhere (except around and around in circles) if they haven’t yet done the work to regulate the key systems in their body controlling general functioning.
- In this stage we look at two key systems: the nervous system and endocrine system, to ensure that you begin your journey to better health from a grounded space.
- Nervous system: having the ability to take action aligned with your understanding of healthy choices is an essential piece of your journey to better health. However, if your nervous system is regularly putting you in a place where you feel out of control, then we need to address how you can get yourself back to a grounded and safe space from which you can take aligned action.
- Endocrine system: having the energy to show up for the health challenge is an essential key piece to a successful health transformation. Unfortunately, most modern individuals have dysregulated metabolisms that provide low or fluctuating energy levels. Our first step may be to address key behaviors that can provide you with strong and stable energy to take on your health journey.
Stage 1: Understand key health principles
- The number one problem I see and hear about from the health sphere is that there is too much noise. Diet and exercise culture has us over-saturated with information.
- What we need is to step away from the overwhelm as we find a clear signal about what tends to be healthy for most individuals.
- In this stage we focus on key healthy behaviors to help build a solid foundation of healthy habits.
Stage 2: Tune into your own body
- Every individual is unique. What is healthiest for you is going to be different from what is healthiest for anyone else.
- There are different ways that you can find answers to the question of what is healthiest for your own self – body and mind – but the best means by which you will find serious answers is by tuning into your own body.
- Your body is constantly sending you signals about what’s going on. If you can learn to listen and understand these signals, you become capable of taking control of your health.
Stage 3: Dial into your specific health challenges
- When it comes to taking on your specific health challenges, it helps to have a broad toolkit from which we can pull from to address your specific needs.
- In this stage, we use whatever we need (deeper mindfulness and embodiment practices, modern technology, deeper research, and more) to get you the answers you need to address your specific health challenges.
- In this stage, we’ll also become more strategic about testing out these different ideas to find what practices best serve your health (and do it in a safe way).
Stage 4: A lifetime of good health
- Understanding pathways of poor health and disease progression has been my passion for the past decade. With my extensive study of the human body from diverse perspectives (physiology, biochemistry, systems biology, nutrition, and more) I can help you understand the science of how disease progresses in the human body.
- In this stage, we look at specific pathways of disease progression and tie them to your specific circumstances to help you make the healthiest decisions possible for your own body.