Health & Wellbeing Coaching
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Do you require help with making positive changes to improve your lifestyle and wellbeing?
Taking steps towards a healthier, more fulfilling life can feel overwhelming, but you’re not alone. Our Health and Wellbeing Coaches are here to support you.
We believe that you know yourself best and that everyone has the ability to make positive changes. Our coaches work with you to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to improve your health and wellbeing.
What Can Health and Wellbeing Coaching Help With?
Through a series of one-to-one sessions, our coaches can:
- Support your planning process: Help you clarify your goals, mindset, and purpose for making changes.
- Assess your readiness: Identify barriers and challenges while working with you to overcome them.
- Encourage and motivate you: Explore tools and resources that can keep you on track with your personalised action plan.
Coaching is not about giving advice, prescribing diets, or telling you what to do. Instead, it’s about listening to you and helping you find what’s most important to you, supporting your journey towards achieving your own goals.
Who is the service for?
Health & Wellbeing coaching could be for you if:
- 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.
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...
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
