Introduction
Your Personal Health Advisor will assess your current health status and work with you to reach your goals.
An assessment of your wellness will be made in all five of the wellness areas:
- health risk
- physical activity
- stress management
- nutrition
- weight management
A Personal Health Advisor assists you in reaching your goals through sustainable behavioral changes. Each program is unique to suit the needs of the client, not a one-size-fits-all approach. Additionally, working with a Personal Health Advisor will provide structure and accountability.
Sessions are held over the phone, Internet and visual monitors if desired, creating a completely confidential and convenient environment for the client. The client's goal development will follow ACSM and ADA guidelines to ensure that the client is receiving the most up-to-date information. The ultimate goal of the Personal Health Advisor is to empower the client to make lasting changes for lasting wellness.
WHAT IS WELLNESSWellness is the combination of 5 major aspects of life: health risks, physical activity, stress management, nutrition and weight management. It encompasses mental health, physical health and emotional health. Body, mind and environment need to learn to live together harmoniously in order to ensure total wellness. Common stimuli that lead to body, mind and environmental imbalances include simple, everyday tasks that we usually don't think about.
Do you find yourself falling victim to any of these?
- Sitting at a desk - usually leads to slouching causing serious posture imbalances resulting in tight muscles, headaches, chronic back, knee, shoulder and hip pain and other disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome
- Regularly skipping meals because of a busy schedule - makes your metabolism slow down during the day and usually an unhealthy choice of food is made when it is finally time to eat, both contributing to potential weight gain and weight gain complications
- Eating comfort foods to deal with stress or unhappiness - creates a tired feeling and then the skipping of physical activity for multiple days in a row (or more…)
- Little or no physical activity due to lack of motivation or time restraints - lack of mental awareness, heart problems, circulatory problems, immune system suppression, a decrease in muscle mass which causes a multitude of problems such as a decreased metabolism, joint and muscle dysfunction and chronic pain
- Not drinking enough water - causes chronic dehydration resulting in 2% or more loss in brain function, dry, itchy skin, dry eyes, stiff joints, tiredness, decrease in activity performance and a decrease in organ function making them more susceptible to disease and less able to function, repair and defend themselves
- Many, many more…
You as an individual have choices. You can either think about all these things on your own or you can get a Personal Health Advisor to think about them for you.
Get started today! Having a Personal Health Advisor can mean the difference between success and on-going struggles!
GOOD TO KNOWThe health and wellness field is relatively new. Therefore, there is information coming out everyday on ways to help you reach your goals. There are hundreds of magazines with experts writing thousands of articles. The strange thing is that all of the articles do not agree with each other.
There are many publishers who are only interested in selling a good story or a good idea for the good of a magazine, and not for the good of wellness. A Personal Health Advisor has the ability, the training and the resources to filter out false information and only pass on what is reliable and helpful for LONG-TERM benefits.
Things progress so rapidly that even if you were wellness savvy a few years ago, chances are a lot of new and improved information has come out since then. Your job is to challenge yourself and the media with questions at all times. Don't automatically believe everything you hear even if it is new and hot off the shelves. Do your research!! Or, of course, have a Personal Health Advisor do it for you.
FAMILY HISTORYFamily history plays a huge part in health risk. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD if you have a family history of life threatening diseases. Your body will respond to whatever you do to it. There are thousands of preventative methods to avoid suffering from our ancestors' development.
Increasing your own health and well being is the best way to fight disease and sickness. You will only benefit from becoming healthier. It is just a matter of finding the right solution for you and applying it. A Personal Health Advisor can help you and motivate you to do that.
An extensive family history and personal health history is required for the use and consideration of your Personal Health Advisor. This information is vital to a personalized program design to help you live better, safer and more efficiently.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A PERSONAL HEALTH ADVISOR- Someone who will motivate you, provide unconditional support, identify your strengths and help you build upon them and partner with you to discover the creative solutions you need to achieve your goals
- Individualized service that is a monthly membership to accommodate the flexibility you need to help implement a lifetime of new healthy habits
- Provides you with a college-degreed wellness professional to work with you in creating and progressing through a personalized plan
- Helps you to identify your personal health goals
- Encourages you to move beyond any barriers to those goals
- Provides direction for you to establish new habits that will allow you to sustain your goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle
- Someone who will provide guilt-free, no-judgment strategies that will push you when you need to be pushed and support you when you need support
- To get in shape
- Have success with weight loss
- Reduce stress
- Stop smoking
- Improve sports performance
- To balance your life
Sessions are held via the phone or Internet providing a completely confidential and convenient environment. Each weekly session lasts approximately 30 minutes. Initial sessions may last longer.
DURING A SESSIONDuring a session your Personal Health Advisor may work with you to:
- Talk about your goals, strategies for obtaining your goals, or work with you on establishing boundaries
- Establish systems to assure that you get what you need to stay motivated
- Enhance other areas of your life that can serve as a foundation during changes
- Implement strategies to overcome relapse
- Find new ways to create the time and energy you require
- Celebrate your achievements
Goals are developed following ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) and ADA (American Dietetic Association) guidelines to ensure the use of the most up to date and medically accepted information and techniques.
GETTING STARTEDPersonal Health Advisors are preparing to ensure quality performance. See you soon!
Get started today! Having a Personal Health Advisor can mean the difference between success and on-going struggles!
