How are your people doing at work?  Are they happy and healthy?  Are they getting enough sleep, managing stress, eating nutritious foods for energy and getting some physical activity in each day?  This is how we need to live for health and happiness in both our personal and professional lives.   Work plays a big role in our lives. Or at least, takes up a lot of our waking time and energy. Our relationship to our work, our colleagues and bosses, and our workplace largely influence our overall well-being. Our overall performance at work is also influenced by our well-being. Large employers may have resources for wellness programs including EAP's (Employee Assistance Programs), an on site gym, and health coaching through their health insurance carrier, but what about the other 99.9% of us who work for small to medium size companies? That's right, in fact about 90% of us work for companies with 20 or fewer employees without health and wellness program support. In comes health and wellness coaching for the small employer!  Wellness coaching is coaching for performance!  Wellness coaching helps you identify and install meaningful and lasting healthy lifestyle habits supporting work-life balance, joy at work and productive and creative flow. Read More

Way back when in health coaching school, I learned about the benefits of raw foods and was introduced to some superfoods not so well known in the Standard American Diet (SAD).  You see raw foods or “live” foods contain enzymes which act as a catalyst for detoxification and absorption of nutrients.   Superfoods are a class of the most potent, super-concentrated, and nutrient-rich foods on the planet.  They are the optimum choice for improving overall health – increasing immune system, elevating serotonin production, enhancing sexuality, cleansing, lowering inflammation, and alkalizing the body! Are you using any of these superfoods in your diet? Read More