Doctors Are Starting to Recommend the Services of Specially Trained Diabetic Coaches to Help Their Diabetic Patients Achieve Important Diabetic Health Milestones
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 28, 2014 -- Diabetes involves so many aspects of ones life that it can become simply overwhelming. In addition to the physical health challenges, there can be serious emotional fallout that can include depression, mood swings and a general feeling of hopelessness.
Although diabetics often know what they should do to manage and reverse their condition from their doctors, they often feel powerless and misunderstood by those closest to them. Frequently they lack the support they need to make important lifestyle changes. Enter the Diabetes Coach!
"As athletic coaches help create outstanding athletes, so do diabetes coaches help create healthy diabetics. It's all about setting attainable goals that result in a series of important triumphs," says Coach Caldwell.
What makes a Diabetes Coach different from a Health Coach, Wellness Coach, or even Therapist? Well, in addition to being experts at diabetes management, they are often diabetics themselves - diabetics who are walking advertisements of how to live happy, healthy and successful lives with diabetes. They have personally experienced the physical, mental and emotional challenges of the disease and overcome them. Their coaching skills apply to the special needs and desires of clients who need and want direction and support to reverse their conditions.
Coach Caldwell, herself a healthy diabetic for the last 12 of 13 years, sums it up this way.
"When a diabetic leaves their doctor's office, they are often on their own to navigate the challenges the condition brings them. That's where I step in. I get to know them, their situation, their goals and roadblocks. Then I map out a game plan for achieving the results they want. I stay with them throughout the process to guide them, create actionable plans, break down what's holding them back and motivate them to move forward. As they start to achieve absolutely 'doable' goals, they become empowered in their own life to master the disease itself."
Among physicians there is building consensus that the majority of conventional treatment programs are not only misguided, but also outdated because their focus has been on masking over symptoms instead of dealing with the root causes of the problems head on. They are missing the practical tools, support and encouragement that can empower diabetics to experience long term health and success. This partially explains why the personal coaching approach is gaining such momentum.
Diabetes Coaches vary in the services and programs they offer their clients. Fit4Life Diabetes Coaching offers a range of Coaching Programs and a free Introductory Consultation to diabetics, pre-diabetics and caretaker of diabetics.
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Taylore Caldwell, Fit4Life Diabetes Coaching, http://fit4lifediabetescoach.com, 206-299-8778, [email protected]
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