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.
Why is it invalid to judge the merit of healthcare purely on symptoms alone? I argue that symptoms are a BAD way to judge how healthy you are. Symptoms are a BAD way to judge your progress. Symptoms are a BAD way to determine if you need healthcare support. Why does the Wellness & Prevention … Read more
What is sickness? What is disease? How do stressors lead to sickness? Every health profession agrees that ideal health or function is a state called ‘homeostasis‘. The way we’ve described it elsewhere on this site is a state where all cells of the organism are operating at 10/10 on the continuum of health. Remember the … Read more
Movement Deficiency Syndrome™ is a concept informed by the idea that we all NEED exercise or physical movement! Movement is life! Movement is a biological requirement for neurological health and a vibrant, optimal life. The evidence is clear that movement is an ‘essential nutrient’ to ensure the healthy, homeostatic function, both of individual cells, and … Read more
The term somatoneurophysiology, while seemingly a very complex word, comprises three elements and shows the inextricable link between unconscious feedback (sensation) from body wall/structures (such as joints and muscles) and the resulting impact on whole-of-body function. It borrows from the huge field of psycho-neruo-immunology which describes the power of mind and mental activity on the … Read more
The term ‘body thoughts’ has been coined to simplify somewhat complex neurological terminology and make these topics easier to understand. The concept of a positive thought is obvious. We understand what it is, and elsewhere on this site we have explained the brain pathways by which they directly reduce the stress reaction in our body … Read more
Nutrition is an area filled with differing opinions and advice. As part of our Vibrant Life Key #2 where we look at developing ideal internal chemistry we have described in general terms our recommendations for both macronutrients and micronutrients in your general nutrition plan (menu or diet). Micronutrients and Macronutrients: Macronutrients are the major food … Read more
Working toward reducing toxicity in our lives definitely means (in part) cleaning up our nutrition – the food, additives and chemicals we regularly consume are often toxic to our bodies. The toxicity may not be obvious because of our remarkable detoxification and storage systems that work hard to adapt to these pressures – but imagine … Read more
Probiotics (the ‘good’ gut bacteria) are essential for full health. Prebiotics (if you’re confused by the term) are the nutritious fibre-dense foods that are the ‘food’ of the probiotics themselves! The gut is such a vital part of our health. It is such a critical area of what we do with Vibrant Life Key #2 … Read more
Healthier amounts, types and proportions of fats in our blood can be developed with appropriate levels of movement. A ‘Lipid’ is the technical name for fats and oils. Blood lipids are the relative amount and proportion of fats, cholesterol, and other molecules that they form which are found in the blood. Clearly this is a … Read more
It is obvious that if you exercise more, you have a leaner, trimmer body, with less fat storage and better functioning, more developed muscle – this gives us a healthier body composition that also ‘looks’ better. Body composition is in many the ‘holy grail’ for many – how we look is often (erroneously) used as … Read more
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