Coaching for Well-being Lifestyle, Health & Wellness Stress Mastery – A Self-improvement Plan Introduction A Self-improvement Plan can be used to address Lifestyle, Health and Wellness for personal development in a variety of areas. The areas of Stress Mastery, Exercise and Fitness, and Diet and Nutrition are chosen as special interest because of their relationship … Read more
Taken from a one of my presentations in Health Psychology… With the exception of the first year of life, the majority of a person’s growth occurs during adolescence (Stang, Story, & U.M., 2008). This creates an increase in need for energy and nutrients to supply the energy. Nutrient needs are higher during adolescence than any … Read more
The concept of the flow experience is used to understand the feelings people are actually experiencing while working toward their goals.
An effective workplace health program can help in promoting to workers healthy behaviors to avoid disease as well as help those already affected by disease to improve or delay disease progression. While the evidence demonstrates good workplace health programs are beneficial, some employers choose not to invest in them or to cut funding for programs … Read more
Alcohol An estimated 17.6 million American adults (8.5 percent) meet standard diagnostic criteria for an alcohol use disorder according to results from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) reported in the current Archives of General Psychiatry [Volume 61, August 2004: 807-816]. Conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and … Read more
Mindfulness Meditation. It seems everyone is talking about it. Having graced the front cover of Time Magazine at least twice in the past eleven or so years, as well as being added to the tool box of many therapists around the world, meditation is becoming recognized as a powerful healing modality for many problems that … Read more
The following is an article I had written on “motivation, SMART goals, and vision”. Motivation, SMART Goals, and Vision “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!” – Joel Barker Many people face challenges each day dealing with the consequences of … Read more
Positive Reframing: What is the silver lining in your situation? What is the best thing you did for yourself today? What did you enjoy the most about this week so far? Every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough. Do you purposely look for the silver lining when your life is difficult … Read more
What IS empathy? An emotion you feel? A state of being? Something you do? What IS it? Empathy is actually all of these things and more… Think of a time you were in a room full of people, maybe a party, and an emotion came over you for no apparent reason that you had not … Read more
I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire, … Read more