Coaching
Lifestyle Medicine
As a double board‑certified lifestyle medicine coach, I bring the highest standards of credentialing and skill to every session—collaborating with you through an evidence-based process to align your goals with what matters most to you!
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What is Lifestyle Medicine Coaching?
Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty and evidence-based approach to lifestyle change that focuses on preventing and treating chronic diseases through adopting health promoting behaviors.
Lifestyle medicine coaching is a powerful, evidence-based partnership that empowers you to make lasting behavior changes in areas like nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, and social connection.
Lifestyle Medicine Coaches (like me!) foster a collaborative partnership in your journey to optimal health, working hand-in-hand with you to identify your unique strengths, values, and goals. These goals are not just about numbers; they reflect your vision for a balanced and fulfilling life!
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You are looking for a coach who can help you strengthen your inner cheerleader while learning to drown out your inner critic!
You are willing to invest your time and energy into showing up for yourself!
You are ready to do things differently and let go of a restrictive, intense approach to change!
You have certain lifestyle behaviors you'd like to change to support your health and well-being!
Is coaching right for me?
Provide your employees the opportunity to participate in a group coaching experience with their peers to help cultivate a workplace culture of well-being!
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These cohort experiences provide more structured coaching with educational information, online course content, and a small group of no more than 25 people!
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Our high-impact coaching community is designed to help you create LASTING lifestyle changes! This membership is where accountability meets action!
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With Full Plate Living, there are no forbidden foods, no points to count, and no guilt or shame! Once you start eating enough fiber — from a long list of foods that you already love — everything else can fall into place! It turns out healthy eating is easy when you know what to focus on...Who knew?! 😉
Full Plate Living is one of only a few programs certified by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. A study, published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, found that participants “lost weight and reported increased energy and improved confidence in making healthy food choices.”
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8 Session group coaching program
Full Plate Living
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PAVING the Path to Wellness: A Guide to Thriving with a Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind, and Joyful Heart
The PAVING STEPSS Wheel identifies all 12 areas of growth and focus for the program:
For a healthy body we focus on physical activity, nutrition, and sleep. The emphasis on purpose, social connection, and energy help us have a joyful heart. For a peaceful mind, stress resiliency, attitude, and time outs are important. To make all of this work and make progress, our action steps include goals, investigations, and variety.
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6-12 Session group coaching program
PAVING the Path to Wellness
Cultivating a growth mindset that allows them to learn from any slip ups and take a compassionate, curious approach to failures instead of beating themselves up!
Adopting behaviors rooted in lifestyle medicine to support their health, happiness, and performance!
Building confidence with goal-setting skills so they can learn to coach themselves through the change process and troubleshoot through challenges they face!
Learning how to break-up with the scale - for good! Instead, we focus on behavior-based tracking and various measures of progress that do not focus on weight!
Results my clients see...!
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You have the power to make choices and take actions that support your health!
Learn how to overcome your thoughts and feelings that have held you back before...
You can make sustainable changes to your lifestyle and choose to make it an enjoyable journey!
Learn to enjoy how you can become healthier without ditching everything you enjoy!
Together, you will develop the skills and mindset you need to create lifestyle changes that last while overcoming setbacks!
Learn how to coach yourself through challenges while celebrating successes!
Hey y'all! My name is Melyssa with a WHY, lifestyle medicine coach with over 15 years of experience with behavior modification. I wrote my book, Healthy Living Doesn’t Have to SUCK, to teach people how to develop health promoting habits in a sustainable, enjoyable way!
After years of my own personal experience with yo-yo dieting and fitness fads, I finally discovered the power of engaging in health and wellness coaching as a way to overcome all of the other typical, short-lived programs. As a lifelong science geek, the method to my madness incorporates a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach stemming from lifestyle medicine, positive psychology, and acceptance and commitment coaching.
So if you're looking for a coach that is classy, sassy, and a bit badass-y... Then you're in the right place!