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11 Tips To Start A Successful Health Coaching Business

11 Tips To Start A Successful Health Coaching Business

I have been working as a Holistic Health Coach since 2016 and have worked with hundreds of people from around the world helping them take charge of their physical and mental health.

As I’m a strong advocate and supporter of the Institute For Integrative Nutrition - where I studied to get my coaching certification - I routinely get emails from prospective IIN health coaches asking how I’ve built Wholesome Stef and my health coaching business over the years.

And so I wanted to put together a resourceful and insightful blog post distilling some of my health coaching business knowledge that I have acquired of the years, in the hopes that it will help you find the confidence to create your own coaching business. There’s a lot of things that I did right early on, but there are also many things that I wish I would have known or done sooner, and I’ll be sharing all of those lessons with you. So, let’s dive in!

Are You An Emotional Eater? Here are 7 Tell Signs

Are You An Emotional Eater? Here are 7 Tell Signs

ver had a fight with your boyfriend, or a frustrating day at work, then end up cozying up with a nice cold pint of Ben & Jerry’s at the end of the day? Do you reach out for food to feel better even when you weren’t even hungry? Is your first impulse always to open the refrigerator whenever you’re stressed, upset, angry, lonely, exhausted, or bored?

You may be an emotional eater. Meaning that you’re someone who uses food as a way to deal with feelings (typically negative ones) instead of to satisfy hunger. Instead of seeing food as what it is, i.e. something you consume for survival (like air and water), you misconstrue it into something else.

As I’ve touched on in previous posts, emotional eating is not a sin! When we become stressed, anxious, or worried, it’s only human to gravitate towards food to cope with our emotions. The problem arises when food is the only coping mechanism to dealing with emotions.

All You Need To Know About The Institute For Integrative Nutrition - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 4

All You Need To Know About The Institute For Integrative Nutrition - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 4

Now that I’ve covered

…it is time discuss the nitty gritty details The Institute For Integrative Nutrition program, such as the accreditation of IIN, whether your clients will be covered by health insurance, the intake dates for 2020, tuition fees and costs, payment plan options and how to get a 4-figure saving.

How To Become a Health Coach - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 3

How To Become a Health Coach - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 3

Now that I’ve covered what a Health Coach is and is not, and my personal journey to becoming a Health Coach, it is time to look at the specifics of how exactly to become a Health Coach. In today’s post, I discuss the details of the The Institute For Integrative Nutrition program, such as the different nutrition theories/ coaching skills/ business skills covered, the time commitment needed to complete your IIN studies and whether or not IIN is suited for people who just want to work on themselves for personal self development reasons but not coach others.

From Anorexic and Binge Eater to Holistic Health Coach - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 2

From Anorexic and Binge Eater to Holistic Health Coach - IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 2

From anorexic to binge eater to Holistic Health Coach - this is my personal journey of how I went from battling my own disordered eating demons to helping others tackle theirs. I take you all the way back to the first time I opened up about my eating disorder, how I struggled to find someone who could relate, how I finally found someone who was able to hold a safe space for me to be vulnerable and when/how I felt ready to give back and help others. I also talk about how I initially looked into becoming a nutritionist or psychologist, but soon realised that wasn’t the right path for me and eventually stumbled across The Institute For Integrative Nutrition, also known as IIN.

What is a Holistic Health Coach? IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 1

What is a Holistic Health Coach? IIN Health Coaching Q&A - Part 1

I continue to receive a lot of questions about the profession of a Holistic Health Coach, how to become a Health Coach and in particular my experience with IIN (the Institute For Integrative Nutrition), so I thought I would cover everything in further detail in a dedicated IGTV series.

In Part 1 we talk about

  • What a Holistic Health Coach is

  • What a Holistic Health Coach is not

  • Why the approach of a Health Coach is so unique compared to the majority of the health care system

  • Why bio individuality is so important

  • How your relationship to food is a direct reflection of your relationship to life itself

  • The different career opportunities that are available to health coaches, from one-on-one online health coaching to corporate health coaching, hosting workshops and events, creating online courses, writing books, hosting podcasts and so much more…

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