International Association for Health Coaches

06/06/2019

A great podcast with outstanding health coaches about Health Coach Week! Thank you Beth Romanski .LifestyleWellness

This week, Beth and Michal welcome Darrell Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition , to discuss the important topic of health advocacy. Darrell’s career in Washington, D.C. is highlighted by directing several notable nonprofit organizations, working for a member of

06/03/2019

Health Coach Week is an international campaign to place Health Coaches at the front of a real global wellness revolution!

https://www.integrativenutrition.com/health-coach-week-2019

04/01/2019

After implementing a new employee wellness program its health-care costs went down — in the first year after the wellness program, the total cost declined from $141 million to $138 million — Los Alamos had an unexpected problem: what to do with the extra money.

The wellness industry has been valued at $40 billion globally, and money continues to pour into start-ups focusing on health and wellness. Early results have been encouraging, but there is much to learn about job productivity and the bottom line.

03/06/2019

Participants in the integrated care program with Health Coaches experienced more weight loss and decline in the severity of depressive symptoms over one year compared with control participants receiving usual care.

An intervention combining behavioral weight loss treatment and problem-solving therapy with as-needed antidepressant medication for participants with co-occurring obesity and depression improved weight loss and depressive symptoms compared with routine physician care.

02/28/2019

We thank Donald M. Payne Jr. for his continued support of our vital profession. Health and Wellness Coaches all over the world (especially those in NJ), thank you for your continued leadership on helping to improve our health, increase happiness and lower health care costs.

“Health coaches can decrease the cost of lifestyle-related diseases by helping people achieve their personal health and wellness goals.”- Donald M. Payne Jr.
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02/21/2019

Using your life experience and Health Coach training to empower others. A great article about health coaching.

We all need an accountability buddy sometimes.

02/14/2019

A new resolution was just introduced in Congress. H.Res.117 recognizes Health Coaches and their amazing work to reverse chronic disease and transform lives. Please sign, share and contribute to the great advocacy work we do for our coaches!

Congress Take Action - Support our Health Coaches

02/04/2019

Health Coaches are part of new and better health care models that focus on long-lasting results that will ultimately reduce lifetime health costs.

Integrative medical startup Parsley Health intends to revamp primary care as we know it—and its idyllic New York City center shows exactly how.

01/30/2019

There is a good reason for smart employers to look into a growing — albeit largely missed — wellness component: mindfulness.

Check out this article on ways you can work mindfulness into your health coaching and why it's important.

The benefit can help employees become happier, healthier and more productive — not to mention increase employers’ ROI.

01/08/2019

Making wellness accessible to more people and places.

Much of the billion dollar wellness marketplace is concentrated in large industry brands and products. Here's a place that's new and is dedicated to all that work in the front door.

"We want HealHaus to be a place that someone who has never thought of wellness can come and feel at home."

A great story.

In an industry that's been dominated by whiteness and cost-prohibitive prices, it's time to change the narrative.

01/04/2019

For those of you that coach in workplace wellness programs, here are a number of very thoughtful emerging trends we should all be aware or, recommend, and incorporate.

While most media companies end each year with a roundup of what happened during the past year, Well+Good, a wellness-focused media company founded in 2010, closes each year with a look towards what they predict will be pertinent to their readers in the coming year.