HEALTH: Integrative Health Coaching may be an option for you – Southernminn.com

People naturally seek ways to improve their lives, relieve suffering and become happier, healthier and more vibrant. The traditional healthcare approach to wellness is to prescribe external treatment based on medical practice guidelines with less attention to a clients personal needs, strengths and challenges. Integrative health coaching helps people identify their innate wisdom for wellness based on personal mind, body and spirit needs. This partnership gives clients energy and desire to seek and find their own way through ongoing challenges of life.

Integrative health and wellness coaching is an emerging field with deep roots in psychology, professional coaching, and expertise in health promotion. Successful integrative health coaching motivates clients to decide what is most important to change and identify specific interventions to utilize their personal gifts and strengths to implement desired change. When a client creates behavior change while building self-efficacy, knowledge and resources, they become autonomous keepers of their health.

The integrative health coach inspires a person to see a new view of self, empowers self-fulfillment and hope, and enables a process of personal growth. Through a process of identifying a specific need, a measurable goal and prioritizing a realistic plan to reach the goal, the health coach supports transformative change toward wellness. Offering permission and power to gain autonomy creates resilience and empowerment. Through personal empowerment, people can transform their lives.

As a nurse practitioner and integrative health and wellness coach, I partner with people to increase self-efficacy and interpersonal skills that lead to fulfilling their goals for wellness and reduce the effects of illness.

I work with individuals who are looking to enhance their wellbeing, manage health challenges, illicit change and create a new vision for their life.

Dawn Ritter is an APRN CNP BC Family Nurse Practitioner and Integrative Health and Wellness Coach. She is the owner of Begin Again: Health & Wellbeing LLC. She can be reached at 507-676-7308

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