How would your life look if it were balanced? What do you want more of in your life? What do you want less of? Make your vision a reality!
I listen, inspire, motivate, and support you through the process of change.
I offer both telephone and face to face coaching in a private office setting.
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The process of wellness coaching progresses through several stages:
- Clients provide background information through a comprehensive assessment and during the first coaching session, so that their coaches are well-informed on the key issues, including medical limitations.
- During the first coaching session, clients and coaches commit orally to a three-month coaching program. Clients confirm that they are ready to make changes and discuss a personal wellness vision, three month priorities and realistic goals. Clients also define and commit to 3-5 goals, or small steps toward the three-month goals, for the following week.
- In each subsequent coaching session, each week or as needed, coaches and clients review the progress towards the last week's goals, learn something new or develop a solution to overcome an obstacle, and then agree on a set of goals for the following week.
- After a few weeks of coaching sessions, clients begin to notice improvements in how they feel and look, and their motivation to continue efforts to change increases.
- Sometimes in the second and third months, clients hit one or more obstacles. Both coaches and clients work hard to find solutions to overcome each obstacle to reach the goal of establishing new lifestyle behaviors.
- By the end of three months, clients typically reach more than 70% of their three-month goals and are energized and confident to commit to changing new areas.
Coaching Articles and Resources
READ ALL ABOUT IT! Great article highlighting Wellcoaches in the New York Times "On the Other End of the Line, Disciipine" Wellness coaching in the New York Times!!
"What to look for in a wellness coach"
Wellcoaches was quoted in the April 22 edition of the New York Times in an article in the business section about nutrition coaching
Winning the Nutrition Game, With Help from a Coach
White Paper- THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC: a confidence crisis calling for professional coaches. Wellness coaches: A new profession to support our mastery of health and well-being.
Listen to Mary on WBAP Radio
Sunday June 24, 2007
FAQs
Briefly introduce yourself and your business.
My name is Mary Claybon, owner of Promoting Health: The Middle Way LLC, a business dedicated to deep health and wellness. My background is nursing and health education. I have been a yoga and fitness instructor, taught meditation and stress management in addition to clinical and nursing education. I currently offer telephone and web based coaching in the areas of stress, nutrition, fitness, health and life and love it because it is a career that uses all of my nursing, wellness and life skills and experiences to help people change and attain their life vision and goals. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio with my husband of 34 years. Together we have three grown children.
What do you think you most have to offer your clients in the area of health and wellness?
Deep understandings of what it means to be human, confused, stressed and then look out at world and know you want to change but it’s difficult. Compassion, excitement and inspiration. My work is all based on my education and my own journey.
Why do you stress “deep healing??”
We think of healing as feeling better mentally or physically and so we look for a quick solution or exciting solution but it goes deeper. The reason we hold on to negative thoughts and behaviors is because something is in pain in our hearts and souls. In coaching we listen mindfully and help the person come up with answers they already know and have deep inside. We don’t tell you what to do we get to what you really want to do-what matters to you and what has gotten in the way to prevent you from being the person you want to be.
What have you learned about motivation and change in your 34 years of experience in this field?
That it has to come from the inside not “you should and here’s how” or even I should because …. It has to be I will and I must because it really matters to me.
How does wellness coaching differ from life coaching?
We do both but begin with looking at health and wellness. Our assessment includes questions on physical health history and lifestyle issues that affect health and promote or inhibit wellness. We are trained to ask open ended questions and listen mindfully, and promote inner motivation and can help with relationships, career, etc. but we always include physical and mental health – fitness, nutrition, weight management, stress management and then add life issues.
Why did you call your business Promoting Health: The Middle Way-What is the Middle Way?
The middle way is actually a Buddhist philosophy of balance because the Buddha learned that he could not heal the world by leaving it but by living in it with compassion and detachment. I have done everything to extremes only to realize that the path to health and healing is moderation and balance-not perfection.
What changes have you made in your own life?
I am changing all the time. My body, and with menopause it is changing on its own. My mind, less and less judgments and know everything ness. Although I am perceived as an expert I am learning all the time and love listening to others figure it out. Understand stress so much more – no drugs just relax, retreat, meditate, yoga- My spirit- broader understanding of God and the universe- more spiritual less religious –Teach A Course in Miracles.
Initially when I was younger I didn’t see things so deeply. I changed my physical lifestyle by exercising, eating healthy and quitting smoking. Later I became more interested in how I did that long term and it had to do with what I believed about life and health. Now my changes are more about healing emotionally and spiritually without it being a cliché.
What changes in our current health care system do you see as necessary and how do you see these changes being implemented?
All players communicating and wanting to heal the system so we can truly heal people and the world. More understanding of deeper healing and wellness. More teaching about long term change. The healers working on their own healing – recognizing we are all on a journey together and nobody’s physically or mentally perfect. Spiritually yes!!
Two key points to leave you with:
• Health goes much deeper than how you look or how long you live-you can be healthy on your death bed.
• You change what you deeply desire to change. Motivation must come from an intrinsic desire to change and not an extrinsic source.