People always ask me questions about food and nutrition.  I’m a health coach.  I spend my time working with individuals on issues relating to food.  Lately, however, this has begun to evolve.  Food and lifestyle are still the initial platform I work with my clients on.  But I realize my true passion is in the coaching. 

Sure, I make recommendations on products or give advice on recipes.  But I excel at asking my clients the right questions.  Often people come in talking about whole grains and leave talking about self-worth.   There is no authentic change in lifestyle without peeling the layers back to deal with the real issues.

I am participating in some continuing education for deepening my coaching skills and working with my own coach (as I have for years).  I notice such a difference in my sessions with clients.  We’re able to go to a much more in depth place and they are, thus, able to go further with their health/lifestyle goals. 

We often get stuck blaming ourselves or asking the wrong questions.  This leaves us in a negative space creates more hurdles to overcome.  When you begin to feel this way, ask yourself a broad question. 

For example, you may have been thinking in your head “I had such a crummy day so I ate candy bars for lunch because I felt so bad” in response to asking “Why did I eat so terribly today?”  Instead, you could shift that to “Why did I have such a crummy day?  What could I do to prevent that from happening again?”  It’s a basic shift and doesn’t focus on blame or negativity.  Instead, it focuses on the cause and potential change.  What shifts for you in doing this?  

Leave a comment below sharing an example of how you can shift the question.