How can I benefit from coaching?
You can benefit in so many ways from coaching, first and foremost – it can transform you, and help you HEAL & THRIVE.
Coaching can help you…
- find balance
- find your unique path to well-being
- understand your life story
- realise what you value most in life
- unravel the things in your life that are limiting you
- invite greater goodness into your life, be it health, vitality, joy, love and well being to name a few
- help you change when change is hard
- find your own inner wisdom
- help you realise you are the most important expert in your life
- find ways to harness your strengths and what you value most to lead a vibrant life
- introduce you to possibility thinking
- build your self-awareness
- grow self efficacy
- feel supported on your journey
- feel empowered to seek information to create your own personalised plan
- execute a plan successfully that inspires you to a path of better health
What factors do we look at in health & wellness coaching?
We work with YOU, a unique WHOLE person.
We look at your mental (mindset), emotional, and physical factors that influence your health, not forgetting your spirit.
We work with all lifestyle factors:
- Sleep
- Exercise (movement)
- Nutrition (diet) & hydration
- Stress response
- Relaxation
- Relationships
- Detoxification
As a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Tessa is a trained professional through a globally recognized program (FMCA). She helps guide individuals and families in living a healthy lifestyle, setting & meeting their health goals and unlocking their true potential.
She as coach plays a key role in guiding them towards preventing or reversing chronic conditions through altering all lifestyle factors in order to live a healthier more resilient life.
What is expected of me the client?
- Coaching is a process and a journey. It requires a degree of commitment from you, the client, to try to make the changes you set for yourself.
- It requires a focus on new/healthier ways of being. Try to be open to exploring, be patient with yourself and be flexible.
- Take steps (tiny or large) to reclaim your health and vitality based on what you find possible.
- Learn respect and appreciation for yourself. Be kind to yourself.
- Trust yourself, listen to your heart.
- Take responsibility for your health.
- Celebrate your successes, however large or small.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is essentially lifestyle medicine that looks at the WHOLE PERSON and addresses the underlying causes of disease.
Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease.
In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
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What is well-being?
Well-being and wellness is the state in which your physical, mental, and spiritual health are in balance, unlocking your body’s natural healing abilities.
Can you as a Health Coach act as my Medical Practitioner?
No, a health coach including myself cannot manage, diagnose, treat or prescribe for any condition you suffer with. I cannot act as your medical practitioner. I cannot order and interpret labs or provide psychotherapy.
As a coach I can however work closely with your Medical Practitioner, who will develop your plan of medical care. I can collaborate with your doctor, dietitian, or therapist, should you consent to this, to provide you with the best possible care.
Do you believe in Conventional Medicine?
Absolutely, I do believe Conventional Medicine can be life saving. When it when it comes to emergency interventions it is the best medicine in the world.
When it comes to chronic illness, medications can truly save lives too and improve quality of life, but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes these medications have side effects that are as hard to tolerate as the disease itself. Sometimes they are ineffective at managing the chronic disease and require higher and higher doses or additional medications added to the mix. There can be so much trial and error. For many patients including myself, this can be soul destroying.
This is where Functional Medicine is so powerful at addressing the underlying root cause of the disease. It treats the whole system, not the symptom; the patient, not the disease and after time can result in less, not more medications for complete healing.
I personally believe there is a place for all medicine, be it Conventional, Functional or Integrative Medicine. I believe this choice lies with the patient. From a coaching perspective I do not judge any route a client chooses. I have tried all three in my personal journey, and all have offered me success in an area of my healing.
As a previous Physiotherapist I was trained with a Conventional Medicine approach. Through my health coaching certification, I was trained from a Functional Medicine approach. I have a great understanding of both models. I do believe both can successfully be used simultaneously, as I have done with my own health, to create better health outcomes and greater long term healing for an individual.
