https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/aboutme daily 0.75 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621619420132-U9R2TWK3UVGE2JV9P8CI/Coach-Laura.jpg About Me & My Coaching Practice - Meet your coach Practice | Bio Sketch | Education & Training Hello! My name is Laura, and welcome to Illumine & Align Integrative Health Coaching, LLC. As an integrative health coach, I am passionate about helping my clients align with their intrinsic motivations, “choose their own adventures”, and gain insights as they seek to make sustainable behavior changes to enhance their health and well-being. https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/home daily 1.0 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621618000865-HCDS6ZXE11YAT82J5OFB/Mount-Mansfield-Peak-VT-for-web.jpg Home - Reach your potential for greater health & wellness with the coaching process This evidence-based coaching process developed by Duke Health provides a framework that connects your goals to your purpose, priorities, and intrinsic motivation and helps you develop an action plan for success. Throughout our work together, we tap into your unique strengths, experiences, and creativity and refine your plan based on lessons learned— empowering you to overcome challenges and attain your goals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621619034452-CYXA38GU19Z5LG096I9B/Strawberry-Sprout.jpg Home - Collaborate to Support Your Community Illumine & Align Integrative Health Coaching is involved in the work of Frederick Health & the Coalition for a Healthier Frederick County on raising awareness of and preventing & managing type 2 diabetes. Through community events, engagements, programs, screenings, & resource sharing, we are working together to make it easier for our community to prevent & manage this chronic disease. Please use the contact form for more information about programs & collaborations. Read more about the Diabetes Prevention Program at Frederick Health here on page 13. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621618368405-RPMUEW7D49FFAEPU7POH/Orange-Flowers-for-web.jpg Home - Sustain momentum toward your goals by partnering with a coach for support and accountability Coaching provides a supportive partnership. Your coach respects your individuality while providing accountability for incorporating sustainable behavior changes in service of your specific goals and your overall health and well-being. https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/about-integrative-health-coaching daily 0.75 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621351552376-66SEZQJFEKE9MCNJBDSL/10+Wheel+of+Health+Graphic.png About Integrative Health Coaching - About Integrative Health Coaching Integrative Health Coaches support clients in making sustainable behavior changes in order to reach new levels of health and wellness using an evidence-based coaching process. The framework provided by the coaching process empowers clients to explore, prioritize, and define their personal health and well-being goals and set up a success-oriented plan for reaching them. Since change can be challenging, coaches help clients connect to their intrinsic motivations and strengths and provide ongoing support as a client carves a new path that incorporates healthier behaviors. What makes coaching effective? Structured Coaching Process—Duke Health’s evidence-based coaching process was developed by leading behavior change experts to build and support momentum for change and learning. Whole Health Approach—Coaches consider your health and wellness broadly and explore interconnections between different aspects of your life to help you select priorities for change. Using Duke’s Wheel of Health model (right), we explore where you are currently and where you want to be along several dimensions. Client-Driven Agenda—Coaches encourage you to choose the health and wellness goals that you feel are the most important for you to pursue and recognize that you are the expert on your own preferences and life circumstances. Coaches don’t provide mandates, diagnoses, or specific recommendations, but instead work with you (and with input from other health care providers if applicable) to design a customized approach to attaining your goals. Collaborative Problem Solving—If you encounter obstacles as you work toward your goals, coaches work with you to maximize learning from these experiences and create effective strategies to keep you moving forward. Facilitating Lifelong Insight—Insights and learnings that come about during the coaching process can be valuable not only for supporting your present goals, but also can be returned to in the future as you seek to accomplish new things. Accountability—Regular check-ins and e-mail support help to hold you accountable to your commitments. Reinforcement—Some clients find success working with a coach to supplement work they are doing with other health care professionals or teachers. For example, if you are working with a nutritionist on a new diet plan, a coach can help you determine how to best incorporate those changes into your own life and help to hold you accountable on an ongoing basis. Expertise to Support Well-being—I am trained in basic mindful awareness and applied positive psychology methods and continue to cultivate my own practices, so if these subjects are of interest to you, we can explore them together as a supplement to the coaching process. Note: Health coaches are different from public health educators, physicians, and therapists. Coaches partner with you through the process of change rather than acting as experts who make recommendations on specifically what and when change should happen. Coaches facilitate behavior change rather than making diagnoses, providing treatment recommendations, or acting as mental health experts. https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/termsofservice daily 0.75 2021-05-20 https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/the-heros-journey-a-metaphor daily 0.75 2021-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621619810597-BQ1H7BKC3CQF1GFJV67X/Halfmoon-Mountain-WV.jpg The Hero's Journey - A Metaphor - The Hero’s Journey A Metaphor For illustrative purposes, it can be helpful to think of a coach as someone who is accompanying you for a time on your own “hero’s journey” toward greater health and wellness. As a client, you are starting out in your current life and health circumstances, and you’re looking to take on new challenges, rise to new heights, or maybe even answer a call to action because of a concern that has arisen. Along the way there are old habits and challenges and distractions to slay, valuable insights to gain, and new ideas about what is possible to forge. Your coach is there to join you as a travel companion and to hold a lantern for you at key turning points in your journey via the coaching process. This lantern (aspects of the coaching process) can help you see your path more clearly, shed light on setbacks in order to reveal hidden opportunities for learning, help illuminate and direct your strengths toward your goals, and assist you in identifying the nature of the obstacles you might encounter in order to find ways to overcome or outsmart them. Your coach is there along with you at key points in the journey—to ask questions, provide support, and highlight strengths and learnings. However, as a client, you are the protagonist of the journey—you are the one who applies the learnings, makes decisions, and ultimately emerges victorious— having activated your own strengths and having made changes, realizations, and achievements that will be of value to you and propel you forward in life both now and in the future. https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-05-21 https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2021-05-20 https://www.illumineandalignhc.com/services2 daily 0.75 2021-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621627592297-RDSATY4ZUKB88DBLFFWN/Green-Field-Sunshine.jpg Services - Free Consultation If you are interested in understanding more about coaching or would like to explore which services might be right for you, please feel contact me for a free, general consultation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621631880460-0XXT39FY6TN09NP3MHUW/AT-Mid-Journey.jpg Services - 6-Month Individual Coaching Series Cost: $1100 USD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621630988529-C5R7M3CKHPR7ETBP1QGG/AT-Trailhead.jpg Services - 3-Month Individual Coaching Series Cost: $550 USD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621625874029-NLO28EUYE1VK7I6NZFFI/Pink-Echinacea-Flowers.jpg Services - Supplement a Series with Additional Check-in Sessions Cost: $65 USD per session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5c69742e076cc6bb73e2/1621626031476-6VQHMGXT3V1ME1FEHX55/Pink-Echinacea-Single-Blossom.jpg Services - One-time Individual Micro-Coaching Session Cost: $100 USD