Health & Wellness Coaching is a process of delivering advice, strategies and a plan for success for what is needed for you to live a better quality of life.
Why is Health & Wellness Coaching important?
Chiropractic care alone (while very important to help you function at your best) is not all you need to maximise your health and express your full potential.
Health & Wellness Coaching incorporates all of the advice, ideas, homework, rehab strategies, exercises, stretches, lifestyle changes and recommendations we make for you – everything that is NOT the clinical application of chiropractic care.
Some of these ideas challenge the accepted wisdom of traditional healthcare!
This approach is focused on sharing the Optimal Life Keys.
This archive contains a range of blog articles and resources that are part of the information we deliver within our Health and Wellness Coaching service.
There are seven (7) Optimal Life Keys which combine to recommend changes and/or improvements to areas of ‘healthstyle’ including ideal neurological function, nutrition and internal chemistry, movement, brain function (thinking, emotion and more) and social interaction.
They also underpin the need to understand, identify, eliminate or counteract the toxic loads or deficiency states which may be found in how you are living life.
This is about helping you understand how to ‘do’ life better, helping you prioritise and implement changes that can manifest this better function and quality of life.
Many people prioritise or judge their own lives (or others) based on a “Have To” belief system or mentality. It is important to identify and think about how our internal dialogue powers our decision-making and our sense of self, confidence, esteem and more. A lot of us live life in an almost unconscious “life-by-rote” automatic, … Read more
There are as many experts as there are ideas about nutrition – what and how you need to eat. Our approach to nutrition is influenced by our ‘lens’ (paradigm) through which we look at the world. Nutrition, and advice about nutrition, is a complex area fraught with confusion.Who Do You Trust? What Do You Trust? … Read more
We know that how we feel impacts our mental state. What is now clearly proven and has been repeatedly shown are the nerve pathways in the brain that allow either good, happy thoughts (internal dialogue) or their opposite directly affect body-wide physiology – from organ function to so much more. The principle of Vibrant Life … Read more
Chiropractic subluxation leads to immobilisation of spinal joints. These joints are richly concentrated with the nerve receptors that ‘instruct’ the brain where the body is in space – the literally give the brain perception of YOU. When we think of immobilisation the image in our mind is usually something related to the larger joints or … Read more
Spinal hygiene – behaviours to keep motion and health of our spine in peak condition – is vital, yet regularly overlooked by many. Spinal hygiene includes stretching, strengthening, posture correction, strength, better lifting technique, less sitting and so much more. Efforts toward spinal hygiene need to be engaged in daily, for life. It is as … Read more
Stress levels in our body – particularly if the body or brain is in an overwhelmed state where it cannot effectively dissipate or adapt to this stress – can have a harmful or depressing effect on our ‘immunocompetence’ – the ability of our immune system to do it’s job and fight internal and external threats. … Read more
Sufficient movement, and the resultant transmission of nerve feedback that ‘signals’ awareness of this movement to the brain is CRITICAL to healthy brain function. The common theme we’ve been discussing under the category of Vibrant Life Key 3 – Moving – the way it’s meant to be, is the importance of sufficient levels of movement … Read more
The impact of modern living choices on our posture is stark and significant. Poor posture is both initiated or maintained by many of our behaviours and use of personal devices (phones etc.) AND by the stress-load in our bodies leading to dominance of our ‘fear and protection’ neurological reaction as an attempt to keep us … Read more
It is clear common-sense that movement is valuable and necessary to promote optimal health – including skeletal health. The stresses of gravity, ‘push-pull’ of muscles, resistance and weight-bearing in an upright position all contribute to a ‘sensory’ load that keeps our bony system healthy. Bones are constantly changing, thickening, re-shaping in response to these loads … Read more
Appropriate movement levels can promote a cancer-free functional state – a level of health in the body where the likelihood of the development of cancers is significantly reduced; this is more evidence of the critical role movement plays in an ideal life. Elsewhere on this site we have shown the impact of a chronic ‘stress’ … Read more
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