Health & Wellbeing Coaching
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Do you require help with making positive changes to improve your lifestyle and wellbeing?
The health and wellbeing coaches can help!
Our team, understands that you know yourself best and believe everyone can make positive changes in their lives. With that in mind, they can help you gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to improve your health and wellbeing.
They can provide support over several one-to-one sessions to:
1. Assist with the process of planning for changes – clarify your purpose and mindset
2. Assess readiness for change and help to overcome barriers and any potential challenges.
3. Motivate and encourage you by exploring tools and resources available to continue with your action plan
Health & Wellbeing coaching is not advice, therapy, or counselling. You will not be prescribed diets, meal plans, or exercise regimes, and will not be told what to do. Instead, our team will listen and help you find out what is important to you, supporting you to achieve those goals.
Who is the service for?
Health & Wellbeing coaching could be for you if:
- you are 18 +
- you have an existing or at risk of developing a long-term condition such as respiratory and cardiovascular issues (including type 2 diabetes and hypertension) as well as challenges like stress and low moods, and would like support to self-manage.
- You have decided you would like to change your lifestyle to improve your health, and do not know where or how to start.
- You are feeling overwhelmed, fatigued, stressed, worrying about weigh gain, frustrated with unsuccessful diets.
How do I access the service?
It’s simple – talk to your GP, health care professional, or ask at your GP reception to be referred to the health & wellbeing coach. You will have an initial conversation with the coach and then be booked in to have up to 6 consultations alongside the option to attend a healthy lifestyle monthly support group.
Alternatively, you can drop us an email to be connected to the team: hweicbwe.lbcwellbeingteam@nhs.net
What our patients think...
Testimonial 6
I arrived in chaos about my approach to nutrition and my health and left feeling I had more clarity with the areas of my life that were not working well for my health.
Testimonial 5
The motivation that I now have, together with what I learnt through the sessions with the coach, has so far resulted in a one and a half stone weight loss.
Testimonial 4
My Coach worked with me to introduce real changes which were manageable and realistic and which have helped me to maintain healthier eating habits.
Testimonial 3
My coach was a very good mentor, provided practical information and guidance and helped me set personal goals after each session . Thank you for you support.
Testimonial 2
I felt listened to and understood, and my coach gave me some manageable, helpful tools that I will take away from our sessions. Thank you!
Testimonial 1
A very big ‘thank you’ for helping me to get on the right track to a healthier me.
Let's Get Moving
By Jenny Chu, Health & Wellbeing Coach
Starting exercise can be one of the hardest challenges, especially when we’re new to any form of activity or finding it hard to move because of pain we may be experiencing in other parts of our body.
Below I highlight some ideas I’ve used with patients during their Health and Wellbeing coaching sessions, which you might want to consider when next trying to get yourself motivated:
- Start off slow. Pick a time of day that suits you and start with a 10/15 minute walk and build up incrementally.
- Walk at a pace that increases your heart rate, warms your body up and leaves you slightly out of breath, but not so much you can’t talk. Stop whenever you find this difficult.
- If you struggle to find time to walk, try to break the time up into little chunks throughout the day e.g. 10min walk at lunch, 10 min walk to the bus stop, 10 min walk after dinner.
- Make it a habit – You’re more likely to stick to a walking or exercise regime if you make it part of your daily routine e.g. Take a brisk walk after dinner; Take the stairs instead of the lift; Get off the bus a couple of stops early and walk the rest of the way.
- Get into comfortable walking or workout clothes when you wake up so you’re mentally ready to leave the house.
- Join a class or arrange to go for a walk or run with a friend – it’s easier to stick to a plan if you’ve got someone else to go with.
- Reward yourself after with something you enjoy doing, such as taking a bath, listening to some music or watching your favourite programme
Pre-diabetes Lifestyle & Nutrition Workshop
Patients who had recently been identified with an HbA1c of 45-46 were invited to attend a Pre-diabetes Nutrition & Lifestyle workshop at Buckhurst Way Clinic.
The workshop was designed to look at four identified pillars of lifestyle – nutrition, stress, sleep, and movement.
Through a combination of education alongside interactive activities, practical movement, and relaxation sessions, the aim was to give patients practical tools they could implement into their day to day to help them understand how they could make small changes to positively impact their condition.
“I’m so happy to follow this session, it changed my lifestyle.”
“You think you know it all but with the workshop you learn new ways.”
“I found it valuable and learned new ways to change my lifestyle.”
“I experienced more than I expected during the workshop.”
“I have decided to change my lifestyle after this workshop.”
We will be running similar workshops and monthly lifestyle support groups in the coming months.
If you would like to be kept in the loop, get in touch with your GP surgery, use the contact form on the website, or email us at Hweicbwe.lbcwellbeingteam@nhs.net