What is Health and Wellness Coaching?
Health coaching is an investment in your wellness. This process is one that anyone can undergo, but it is especially recommended for someone who feels stuck in life. Someone who has tried to adjust their lifestyle time and time again with no success, someone who understands that something needs to change in order for them to embody their optimal vision of wellness. Furthermore, chronic illnesses are quickly becoming a worldwide pandemic, and health coaches are the first line of defense! A healthy lifestyle can prevent or control 80% of chronic illnesses. Psyched to Live Health Coaching is here to aid in that process!
What makes health coaching different than other medical interventions?
A health coach believes that you are the expert in your own life; no one understands your body and your needs as well as you do. Health coaches are not here to force you to make specific changes that you do not believe in, but to help you make changes to achieve things that you already want to achieve, and to reach goals that are important to you. Health and wellness coaching is a very interactive, personal process, not a one time hospital visit. You form a relationship with your coach, and you embark on your health journey hand in hand.
The Coach
Mieke Baisley, FMCHC, is the coach here at Psyched to Live. She is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, as well as a Functional Nutrition Counselor, with a passion for wellness. She believes that everyone should strive for optimal wellness, as opposed to just a lack of disease. This includes more than just optimal nutrition and exercise; she chooses to focus on lifestyle, eating habits, movement and taking care of your mental health. These aspects are all deeply personal and your vision of optimal wellness will be vastly different from anyone else’s. Her mission is to explore that vision and to help you get there by utilizing your own strengths.
She has a bachelors degree in Human Physiology, Genetics and Psychology (Cum Laude), as well as an honours degree in Psychology (Cum Laude). She believes that learning and growing is a continuous process and has completing her certification in Functional Medicine Health Coaching, as well as Functional Nutrition Counseling; believing that learning doesn’t end with a degree.
Her interest in Health Coaching first came to light when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease at 21 years old. She was able to experience the glorious effects of lifestyle change in her own life, and turned to coaching to be able to help others do the same.
The Coaching Process
Psyched to Live offers a free, 20 minute introductory session, where you can comfortably get to know our coach and become familiar with the coaching process. This is not only necessary for you to find out if we are a good fit, but for us to ensure that you are a good fit for our coaching. After this initial session, it is up to you to decide which of our two coaching options best suits you; either a weekly 30 minute session, or a 50 minute session every second week.
Psyched to Live is based in South Bend, Indiana, but all coaching sessions are held over Zoom.