Ready to feel your BEST?
Spring is around the corner, are you looking to put a spring in your step and find a lighter, freer version of yourself?
Doors open April 2021
Spring is a season of new beginnings and that often comes with a natural desire to focus on our health. If the cold winter months have left you with some extra insulation that you'd like to get rid of, or the past year of pandemic living has you realizing that you need to make some changes to improve your health, then my new program is for you.
Be Your BEST is a six-week group coaching program specially designed to address the 3 biggest challenges to improved health and well-being:
eating better consistently
moving more consistently
and the BIG ONE: managing our thoughts and that little voice in our head that thwarts our efforts
Be your BEST
2 small daily habits to eat better and move more, book-ended by 2 mindset practices to make sure they stick!
Be Mindful
Your thoughts and beliefs are powerful. Notice and dismiss the unhelpful ones. Nurture and cultivate the helpful ones.
Exercise
Start where you are. Work at your own pace. Move in a way that feels good. We are moving towards 150 minutes per week.
5 Servings Veg & Fruit
No dieting, calorie counting or restriction. Instead we'll focus on adding in fresh fruits and vegetables, aiming for 5 servings a day.
Three Good Things
Notice and celebrate the positive. Each day you'll reflect on 3 good things.
$197 investment includes:
Six 75 min group coaching sessions, occurring once a week for six weeks
Workbook with exercises to accompany session topics and deepen insights
App for tracking your progress and habits
Personalized accountability and coaching support between sessions
Be Your BEST
Program Details
Week One
Three Good Things
Working backwards, we'll start by focusing on what's good. As psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson puts it, "The brain is Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones." In our first session you'll learn why we are hardwired to focus on the negative and how to overcome this evolutionary bias with a simple nightly habit. Consciously shifting our focus toward the positive generates motivation and more importantly a bias toward action.
Week Two
5 Servings of Vegetable & Fruit
We all know that how we fuel our bodies matters, and yet it can be a struggle to consistently make good choices. I'm not a fan of dieting or nutrition dogma. I prefer to stick to the basics, like eating more fruit and vegetables. It may seem simple, but a singular focus on this foundation makes a HUGE difference toward feeling your BEST. We'll explore ways to make this habit tastier and easier, and how to take small steps to reach the 5-10 a day goal.
Week Three
Exercise
Meeting the minimum recommendations for physical activity is a challenge for many of us. The sedentary nature of many jobs combined with technology designed to make our lives easier, has resulted in our sitting is the new smoking reality. We'll review the benefits of exercise, and you'll connect with your personal motivators and find ways to move more that may or may not include traditional "exercise".
Week Four
Be Mindful
Behaviour change is equal parts action and thought. Our mind is a non-stop thought generating machine. Some are helpful, some not so much. We'll explore the practice of mindfulness, of noticing thoughts from a neutral observer standpoint so that we can dismiss the unhelpful ones and nurture the beneficial ones.
Week Five
Practice
Change is hard! Changing what we eat, how often we move, and what we think is even harder. Ideally our "keep it simple" and "take it slow" approach is making it easier, but we'd be remiss if we didn't anticipate challenges. This week we'll discuss barriers and obstacles and share tips for persevering and finding those small wins and good things!
Week Six
Celebrate
Our final week together will be a celebration of the success you've had, the community we built, and the learnings you're taking with you. You'll come away with a plan to maintain the healthy habits you've established so you continue to feel your BEST.
Consider joining if you ...
need some structure and accountability to get started
are looking for gentle guidance and the flexibility to do what works best for you
want to make sustainable changes to improve your diet and increase your physical activity (vs a quick-fix plan that, at best, offers short-term results)
want to be part of a group of like-minded individuals with similar goals
aspire to better well-being and a healthier lifestyle
can commit to an online 75-min coaching session once a week for 6 weeks
have $197 to invest in your health