Wellness
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror but you are eternity and you are the mirror. ~Kahlil Gibran
Kim coaches and supports men and women who are ready to create health through nutritional wisdom, yoga, aromatherapy, meditation and coaching. Together you devise a program that's tailored to suit your individual needs. Kim helps you express your path of personal happiness and learn to honor the needs of your body and spirit through mind body awareness. Kim works with individuals who would like to improve or establish healthy habits and create balance in all areas of their lives. Please browse this site to learn about wellness, health coaching, integrative therapies and self-care and contact Kim for more information about this unique holistic service.
In order to keep up with the many demands of our lives, we must make time on a daily basis to replenish and nourish ourselves. It's called self-care. Many people consider self-care a guilty pleasure or an act of indulgence, but if you reframe it, it's about refueling so that we can maintain our health and a sense of balance. Small acts of self-care enable us to keep our lives moving along without experiencing depletion, and far worse, failing health. Most of us are unbalanced on many levels. Don't have time you say? I believe a little bit of something is better than nothing. Five minutes of removing yourself from your computer and finding a quiet spot to sit it silence and visualize a calming image can do a world of good.
Wellness is about taking responsibility, being accountable for your state of health and living consciously. It is working towards the goal of finding a recipe for balance in your life that allows you to fully engage in work, family, relationships and most important, your relationship with yourself. If your reserves are depleted, then you cannot work and play at full capacity. Wellness is a choice and making healthier choices is within your control. It is a decision to move toward optimal health and a lifestyle that you design to achieve your highest potential for well being. Like most of us, you just need some guidance and support. It's difficult to know where to start on your own and even harder staying committed and following through. Contact me for a consultation about health and wellness counseling.
How are wellness goals achieved?
If your life is complicated by ongoing and unrelenting stressful conditions, it is best to address these issues and reduce these stressors whenever possible. When stressful conditions are unavoidable, it often leads to a downward spiral of progressively impaired self-care, at a time when you need your full health and personal strength. When we are in good health, it is important to maintain and support that state of wellness. When we are challenged by difficult situations, it is even more critical to develop a self-care practice that boosts reserves. It is difficult to take this time during a crisis, but so important. In my wellness practice, I am dedicated to helping create positive, practical and lasting change for a diverse mix of private clients. I partner with you in creating a holistic and life-transforming practice of wellness that will enable you to define your goals, listen to your body, understand yourself and your thoughts and rediscover your luminous, vibrant nature. Wellness is truly a mind, body and spirit approach to feeling your best.
Practitioners of wellness have amazing techniques to help you and most importantly, help you to help heal yourself. There are natural ways to deal with challenges that include: relaxation therapy, stress management, aromatherapy, physical exercise, energy healing, focused breathing, hypnotherapy, guided meditation, nutritional guidance and positive life-style changes. These are just a few of the many examples available in this approach. All of these practices are useful in one's quest for comprehensive health and well-being. In fact, studies suggest that these holistic and psychological practices can increase and promote the body's natural abilities to heal neurological, endocrine, circulatory, and musculoskeletal and other body systems. Your body was elegantly designed to repair itself when damaged, but you must support and facilitate this process.
How is this accomplished in a wellness practice?
You decide what is important to you and what areas of your life you would like to continue to support or change. It is done by means of comprehensive, eclectic and integrative health and psychological approaches that include: psychological insight, cognitive restructuring, behavior modification, environmental modifications and specific stress reduction techniques. Together we can evaluate your strengths as well as lifestyle choices and habits that interfere with your wellness today. My goal is to provide practical and workable solutions to help you manage your stress, and use an eclectic mix of modalities that support mindful change that you can apply daily for the rest of your life.
The wellness model of helping a client achieve a satisfying, conscious and joyful life is both practical and elegant, and requires that the process of the body can affect the mind and the process of the mind can affect the body. My training in psychology, social work, integrative therapy and yoga therapy enables me to utilize a broad range of healing modalities.
The wellness movement
Societal interest in the practice of wellness has grown considerably as clients seek a different philosophy of health, growth and change. Wellness as a movement requires a necessary shift in thought and behavior. It is obvious that the current American health care system is failing most of us. As a country we foster bad habits. We focus on fixing the problems with expensive drugs, often with major side effects, instead of focusing on the source of the problem, which is prevention. Doctors often have good intentions, but fall short of providing optimal care because they are trained to focus on disease and "fixing" what's broken, not health and prevention. Our healthcare system is drained because we are so unhealthy. Wellness as a movement requires that you become your own health advocate. How often has your doctor said that everything is "normal" and you still feel lousy. You accept what your doctor says because he is "the doctor" and who knows your health better than him/her? Actually, you do because you live in your body. We rarely do our own research and ask our doctors questions or dare I say, ask for the lab result. Healing modalities that bridge this ever-changing evolution in the treatment of the "whole person" relies on committed alternative and integrative therapies and therapists and a consumer that takes the time to get educated.
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