"Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag - the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body." ~ Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, 5/26/98
Coaching is simply the tool, the method, I use to obtain results. I prefer to bring your attention to the innovations, benefits, and results we can achieve: a high success rate (over 91%); the convenience, comfort, and personalization of an in-your-home and office approach to tobacco cessation; the tremendous health benefits. There are more, below.
But in case you're not familiar with it and want to know more, here's a quick summary of coaching, and specialty/niche coaching:
Coaching is a newer profession that's synthesized the best from psychology, business, evolutionary understanding, philosophy, spirituality, finance, and personal expertise—and offered its services to individuals, not just corporations (corporate coaches are typically high-powered think tank consultants with special expertise needed by the corporation to achieve certain goals). Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations in shorter amounts of time. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.
Specialty / niche coaching—the only way I coach—is different than life coaching mentioned above. Individuals like myself, who concentrate in one area because of a special expertise they have, accept clients who specifically seek their services. It’s a powerful one-on-one supportive, focused, and expertise-driven relationship; it’s the next generation of personalized smoking cessation ‘treatment’—for those ready to move to the next level.
Like a personal trainer—but unlike visits to the doctor’s office or your community hospital-sponsored smoking cessation program—we meet in the convenience and privacy of your home or office, at convenient times you choose, thanks to the telephone and Internet. (Think about it—is there any good reason smoking cessation can’t be done this way? Do you really need to drive somewhere, possibly pay to park, make arrangements for the children or a significant other…in order to quit smoking using some mass produced program?)
There will always be the standard stop-smoking programs for the masses, (like cheap, non-nutritious fast food for the masses, I call them “McTreatments”) such as the nicotine replacement drug crutches, and the freebie programs given by bureaucracies—but these don’t interest those individuals that become my clients—for their valuable time and money, they want personal service that works.
Also…while you’re in the process of using naturopathic methods to quit cigarettes, our coaching relationship also allows you to rebalance areas of your life that come into play with smoking—perhaps for you it may be stress, worry about the future, other health problems, relationships, or professional life. Smoking integrated into the fabric of your personal and professional life, and I always find that it’s become part and parcel of imbalances—in home, school and/or work. I provide the knowledge, experience, tools, structure and support necessary for you to be a success at quitting.
Specialty coaching works because the immediate focus is on what’s most important for you. Your individual needs, values, beliefs, goals, visions, dreams, concerns, and fears are brought to the forefront, and dealt with intelligently and with respect—but aimed toward achieving the goals you want. As a psychologist and naturopath with lots of experience, I’m able to help you discover the answers that are already in your possession or we’ll find them together. In other words.... we get better, faster results!
Top 10 Things You Should Expect
- You’ll make better decisions for yourself, not only as you stop smoking, but in all areas of your life, personal or professional.
- My main responsibility is to support you in maintaining a clear focus on what it is we have to do, and to provide and refine your naturopathic plan for quitting. When your focus is clear, your decisions are clear and you're able to take better action toward your goal—to stop smoking.
- One of the spin-off results of specialty coaching is that you create a more balanced life that works.
- Having more of a quality life in the 21st century means doing the things to achieve a balance between home, work and play—then, you’re going to be more effective in all three domains. Working together we’ll find clarity about what other areas of your life are out of balance, and I can provides the tools to bring these areas back into balance.
- You’ll make and keep more money—your smoking has cost you considerably. When you call, I’ll show you how you’re eligible for a claim on $2500 or more, because you’re being coached.
- As a coach, I’ll also help you design a winning healthy life strategy based upon your specific needs, goals and lifestyle.
- As an ex-smoker, you’ll get more done in less time, with more energy!
- You’ll become focused on what’s really important in your life and have more energy. As your coach I’ll work on a plan to increase your productivity without suffering.
- You’ll feel better physically, emotionally, and mentally.
- You’ll recognize and eliminate hidden life costs that have come as a result of smoking. Back to the top
To sum it all up, specialty coaching works because of three unique features:
Synergy: You and I become a team, focusing on your goals and needs and accomplishing more than you would on your own, or in any of those widely-available impersonal smoking cessation ‘programs.’
Structure: You'll take more action, think bigger, more innovatively, and accomplish your goals, because of the accountability that occurs.
Expertise: Conquering smoking naturally is my specialty. For 19 years, I researched, read, and practiced in the area of addictions, concentrating in tobacco addictions. It’s taken four years to write a nationally acclaimed book on this topic. I utilize the most current, powerful methods derived from science. I’m one of the few that actually use lab tests to know when your body is ready to quit, to monitor progress, and to make corrections. I have a 91% success rate.
When you hire a coach, here's a few things that happens . . .
- You take yourself, your needs, and goals more seriously because you have made an investment of time and money.
- You take more effective and focused actions immediately
- You stop putting up with what's dragging you down
- You create momentum so it's easier to get results; and you’re supported in this momentum
- You set better goals that you might not have without your coach
Read here to understand how I coach my clients.
Specialty Coaching Gets Results- In Your Personal and Professional Life!