simply: health coaching

What's even more fundamental to our health than our nutrition? How do we make self-care sustainable? How are the majority of us not breathing properly? What can we do when we wake up in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep? Join me and Dwania Kyles, breathwork coach and civil rights activist, as we dive into these topics and more. bio Dwania Kyles, aka Breathing Beauty, is a Breath...

How does our tendency to nurture others play out when we plan travel? How are taking a solo trip as a woman and getting a health coach related? How does travel help us to live in the present? And what are the latest trends in health and wellness travel? Join travel wizard Janine Queenin and me as we discuss travel as a form of SOUL care, even in these times of plague and chaos! bio Five years ago,...

What happens when we overidentify with a certain way of being, whether it's an eating style or a type of workout we do? What's wrong with coaches going over time with clients? And what does it mean to have your mind and body act as allies? Mindfulness coach Abby Carter and I dig into all these topics an more in this week's episode! bio Abby is a published author, mindfulness coach, yoga instructor...

Join emergency medicine physician and serial entrepreneur Dr. Charmaine Gregory and me as we talk about how compartmentalizing can be vital—and also damaging, the importance of staying active—and when to listen to the wisdom of age rather than taking "the foolishness of youth route," facing down our fears, what the extreme of catastrophic thinking looks like, and why promoting resilience ignores t...

Do you feel like getting a good night's sleep is a nightly battle? Join sleep coach Lana Tomkinson and me as we cover "the other pandemic" plaguing the world, how to stop warring with insomnia, whether blue light is really the problem, and how to learn to say “no”—and “yes!” bio Lana Tomkinson used to live with insomnia, anxiety, and depression. She learned to beat them ALL. And now she helps othe...

Join my friend and colleague Jen Sprague and me as we talk about her burnout story, dirty words that start with s-h, what happens when we fall prey to the culture pressure cooker, upgrading our operating system to appreciate our negative patterns, and a whole lot more. bio Jennifer Sprague is a certified Transformational Coach who specializes in wellness and lifestyle; she helps people overcome ob...

Continuing our series on stewarding emotional eating, in this  episode, we're taking a look at our desires—and how to meet those desires as a loving parent would. resources Apply for the Fall 2021 cohort of the Stewarding Emotional Eating program —deadline is October 31, 2021! related episodes Start here! If you didn't hear the introductory episode to this series, start with S3 B4 | Emotional...

Continuing our series on stewarding emotional eating, in this episode, we're taking a look at our emotions—and getting in touch with our inner toddler! resources Apply for the Fall 2021 cohort of the Stewarding Emotional Eating program —deadline is October 31, 2021! related epidsodes Start here! If you didn't hear the introductory episode to this series, start with S3 B4 | Emotional eating: play s...

Continuing our series on stewarding emotional eating, in this episode, we're taking a look at our triggers—from the perspective of a journalist! resources Apply for the Fall 2021 cohort of the Stewarding Emotional Eating program —deadline is October 31, 2021! related epidsodes Start here! If you didn't hear the introductory episode to this series, start with S3 B4 | Emotional eating: play scientis...

In the next few episodes, we're exploring the topic of emotional eating—what it is and how we can approach it, perhaps more successfully than we've done in the past. In this episode, we explore what emotional eating is, how it shows up for us (it's different for everyone!), and how an ancient Eastern philosophy can show us a new way of looking at it. resources Apply for the Fall 2021 cohort of Ste...

This week, we're taking it back to the kitchen: join me and three colleagues as we discuss meal planning—the good, the bad, and the ugly! We all help our clients with meal planning—each with a different perspective and set of tools—you're sure to find some inspiration for your own meal planning practice. resources Get all the meal planning resources and contact information for our panel Register f...

What's your most important asset? Certified Financial Planner Catherine Arnet Valega has a surprising answer! Join us as we talk about easing financial stress—particularly for women in mid-life and how being a money doctor is like being a health coach.  bio Catherine founded Green Bee Advisory LLC to help women, impact givers and investors, and small businesses, build, manage, and preserve th...

Join me and Barbara Bowman, Dream Activator at Heartfelt Wisdom, as we discuss broccoli sprouts and BS, how to tell the difference between the voice of our ego and the voice of our soul, and the importance of taking a pause when we're trying to figure out what our soul really wants. bio Most of Barbara's career was spent in local public health running smoking cessation programs, health risk reduct...

This month, the bonus episodes are all about what I call the EAT™ process that I walk clients through to reclaim their health. Today's episode is all about sustainability—and what the T in EAT™ stands for. resources Find this content on my blog Take the Tell me about YOU survey (Note: you will be added to my email list if you do this—go ahead! That's a good thing.) Do you wear an HR hat at work? C...

Join me and burnout expert Janice Litvin as we talk about the wonders of oatmeal, using cognitive behavioral therapy to banish burnout, why burnout is a two-way street, eating al desko, and how to more safely cross the burnout street with the STOP process. bio Janice Litvin is on a mission to help leaders and teams banish burnout in their organizations, so their employees can come to work healthy,...

This month, the bonus episodes are all about what I call the EAT™ process that I walk clients through to reclaim their health. Today's episode is all about prevention—and what the A in EAT™ stands for. resources Find this content on my blog Take the Tell me about YOU survey (Note: you will be added to my email list if you do this—go ahead! That's a good thing.) Explore CDC health statistics CDC ob...

How is the social change sector rooted in inequality, and how has that informed the current state of it? And how are the 2016 and 2020 elections, The Great Reset, The Great Resignation, and the pandemic all creating new opportunities to reinvent it? Listen in on my conversation with Nell Edgington, president of Social Velocity and author of Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Crea...

In the first bonus episode of Season 3, I'm talking about presenteeism—and its opposite—as they relate to our personal health and the health of our organizations. Learn what the first step of the EAT™ process involves! resources Find this content on my blog Forbes, "How much are your disengaged employees costing you?" LinkedIn Learning Blog, "How to calculate the cost of employee disengagment" Sig...

Welcome to Season 3! This week, let's talk about those incredibly annoying answers you get when you ask questions of parents and/or health coaches! resources Details and application link for the EAT™ | Your Way to Health program Register for a free EAT ™ | Your Way to Health workshop on Zoom: Monday, September 13 at 12pm ET , or Monday, September 20 at 12pm ET , or Tuesday, September 21 at 3pm ET...

It's incredible to me that the podcast has been going for almost 18 months: I'm so grateful to you, my listeners and supporters!  This episode wraps up Season 2 and introduces what's on the menu for September—on the podcast and at Simply: Health Coaching in general. I'll be taking August "off" (learn more about that in this episode) and will be back in September with Season 3—"see" you then!...

Join me for a conversation with Sharonda Simmons, coach, consultant, and founder at Thrive & Shine, LLC! We dig into a whole new way of journaling—and how sometimes the answers we are seeking are found in our journals—what happens when your calendar and your body can’t agree, and how organizations treat their workers vs. how they treat their clients and other stakeholders, and much more. bio W...

Listen in on my conversation from the (Sorta) Secret Sisterhood with executive and leadership development coach Kim Meninger. In addition to talking about impostor syndrome, we discuss working in a male-dominated environment, bulldogs and poodles, being the center of the Universe, why focusing on the outcomes of self-care is more important than the process, self-promotion as a service, accomp...

Join Andrea Bachman and me as we discuss yoga, Ayurveda, tuning into Mother Nature's calendar (instead of the marketing/corporate calendar), and why often a solid B- is perfect. bio As a Wellness Coach, Yoga Facilitator, and co-host of Fearless Self-Love Retreats, Andrea helps folks move from overwhelm to ease through sustainable daily habits. The wisdom of Yoga & Ayurveda, and the yearning fo...

Join Rob Bee and me as we discuss the brilliance of veggies for breakfast, the dangers of eating in front of the telly at night, why Country music lyrics are the best, why it’s not our fault that we’re in denial about our limitations, how to change the culture of the medical profession to "sell prevention," and how the movement for prevention is like green energy. bio Rob Bee's business, The Art o...

Join my conversation with intuitive eating coach Lisa Dahl of Lisa Dahl Wellness. Our discussion covers a lot of territory, including how we greet each other, the relationship between perfectionism and the Patriarchy, underpromising and overdelivering, capitalism and the diet industrial complex, making ourselves obsolete as health coaches, and how to learn the "foreign language" of health. bio Lis...