Why health coaching?
I learnt that self discipline and behaviour control were the only ways for maintaining health very early in life.
In my teenage years, I saw a loved one slowly killing himself over a decade. He was diagnosed with diabetes around the age of fifty. Not only did he hurt himself, he left deep wounds on the life and minds of his wife, my brother and me, and our mother, who even being a doctor, couldn’t do anything as he spiralled down the sinkhole of compulsive eating. No blood sugar monitoring, medicines, specialist consultations, insulin injections, low carb diets, extra protein, freshly prepared dal-sabji-salad could help him. All we could do was watch helplessly.
He needed to be rushed to the hospital about once a year. The doctors managed to stabilise him and send him back home after a few days.
Over the years, my aunt started being compared to Savitri, known in ancient Indian texts to bring her husband back from death multiple times.
At one point of time, at almost six feet tall, his weight dropped to 38 kg (84 lbs). You could see his ribcage from the back. He was bedridden for weeks.
He made life traumatic for us all, but mostly for himself. He had to endure the physical trauma, the debilitation, the hospital stays, the unlimited number of injections and drips.
He lost his life not long after retiring, when he could have enjoyed at least another twenty years of life on this beautiful planet, exploring the world in ways that retired people can do. What a pity!
This is where health coaching comes in.
There’s a lot of information out there. We all know the right thing to do, but it’s not enough to know. The internet can give you a lot of recommendations for your health conditions or goals. How far did you get with your health journey reading those?
If you could have done it on your own, you would have done it by now.
Do you know that the best athletes, players, stars, the best in any and every profession, have coaches. That is how they stay where they are. That is how they are able to maintain their standards and their edge.
Health coaching is the ultimate gift you can give yourself, or to a loved one.
Health coaching is not a quick-fix program
Your health issues took a few decades to manifest, they will also take time to show signs of reversal.
Once you start making good choices for yourself and set wellness practices in motion, your body will reward you in ways you can’t imagine.
My goal is to set you on the path of recovery by instilling health-promoting behaviour.
You can break the shackles of poor habits
Remember and remind yourself everyday that positive change is possible… …even if you are overburdened with the grind of everyday life. …even if you have not managed to lose that excess weight. …even if you have those tyres around your belly. …even if you have been diagnosed with ‘irreversible’ chronic disease. …even if you have tried and failed multiple times. …even if you have so far not had enough willpower to stick to your health goals.
Together, we will get you there.
Don’t waste many more years trying to fix it all by yourself.
Bridge the gap between knowing and doing
One of my friends’ fathers was a cardio thoracic surgeon. He was operating lung cancer patients every day. He was also a chain smoker.
Another friend’s father was diagnosed with COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and was put on forever medication. She said to me ‘he has not stopped smoking’, with undisguised contempt.
We all know such examples.
However, we ourselves also have areas in our lives with insurmountable gaps between knowing and doing.
Why are you not in optimal health?
Sometimes, life does overwhelm us and we start neglecting ourselves. Random aches and pains, or a sudden illness come as wake-up calls. We can look at these as messages telling us to focus on ourselves, to give importance to our needs.
If you find yourself in sub-optimal health condition, know that there is a way out without being dependent on medicines.
Take action now
We can either complain and blame it all on what life is doing to us, or choose to take action.
Imagine how it would look if you were more in control of what was happening in your body, more in control of the food you ate, more in control of physical exercise you should be doing according to your age and preferences?
How would you feel if you lost that flab?
What would it look like if you found a way to get your wellness routines done consistently, everyday?
Do you really need a coach?
No, you could also probably do it yourself, like I did. It took me more than a decade of research, trial, building up routines and cultivating discipline until good health behaviours became second nature to me.
It is the single most important thing I did for myself over the last twenty years.
I came to the realisation that cultivating health-affirming behaviour is the most important thing one can do for themselves. I wanted to share it with the world. This is how I became a health coach.
In three months time, you can change in ways that took me a decade to do!
Take control of your life consequences
Have you been thinking for years that one day, you will really start living with discipline? One day, you will start taking good care of your body? One day, you will make the flab around your tummy go away? One day you will start eating according to what is suitable to your body?
How many more years are you willing to lose? Heart attacks, diabetes, high blood pressure, all develop silently over decades before the outer manifestations become obvious.
How many more years are you willing to give them to develop?
How many more years are you willing to take your body, your only real material asset in this world, for granted?
What would it look like if you took a step now to do something about your health?
Why aren’t you doing it already?
You are one step away from changing your life
When handed a pathway to your health goals, will you take it? Or would you do it ‘later’?
If you’re ready to invest in yourself, don’t wait for ‘some day’. Start today. Because this moment is the only one in which change is possible.
If not now, then when?
A year from now, you might find yourself in the same place.
Get help now
A new chapter starts now, in this moment, not tomorrow, or sometime later.
Having lived through very toxic professional environments in India and the West, I understand the struggles of professionals in high-demand careers very well.
Thankfully, because of my experiences, I have become able to carve out a life worth living for myself and my family. I can help you do the same.
I am a molecular biologist turned health coach. I am also an Ayurvedic lifestyle and nutrition consultant and a health educator.
Disillusioned with the reality of the world of modern science and scientists, I gravitated towards solutions from nature for supporting health and healing. Over the last two decades, I have built, provided and sustained very high wellness standards for myself and my family.
Health coaching as a profession comes as a natural extension of what I have become as a person.
Book a free discovery call by writing to me at DrMukta@Weiss.io.
Don’t do it one day, do it today.