What is Personal Coaching for Chronic Illness?
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What is Personal Coaching for Chronic Illness exactly?
Personal Coaching for Chronic Illness is the idea that different illnesses, conditions, and syndromes can be managed, contained, and even suppressed, through a unique coaching structure. This is achieved by taking every possible factor in an individual’s life and aligning them all in the same direction, along with support, guidance, and adaptive targets. This, over time, creates the best possible circumstances in which that individual can then begin moving forward, and recover elements of their lives back from these debilitating illnesses.
These chronic conditions almost always have many different symptoms, in a variety of departments in the body and mind. Personal Coaching is built upon developing multiple strategies with each individual - strategies that are intensely unique to them and their lives, to provide consistent progress every single week. A few months down the line they may have reduced their medications by 75%, they may be able to walk twice the distance that they could, they may be able to drive again, they may be able to go out by themselves again and so on. When each freedom is returned to that person, they slowly start taking their lives back from diseases that can take everything.
Who is Personal Coaching for?
Personal Coaching for Chronic Illness is for people who have endured the brutal reality of suffering with one or more chronic illnesses and have watched pieces of their lives be lost, time and time again. It is for people who have had enough of dealing with agony and changing symptoms daily and are ready to bring change into their lives, and begin taking back their freedoms. It’s a very difficult process too, and so that person has to be ready to do whatever it takes to progress, learn and adapt in order to carve out a new life where their illnesses do not dictate every waking moment.
A list of Spoonie Support benefits.
How does Personal Coaching for Chronic Illness work?
Personal Coaching is a thorough process from start to finish, without any details being missed. In the beginning, an initial 60-minute consultation is arranged between both coach and client, with time dedicated to meeting and collecting as much data as possible – there is usually some paperwork involved for records for both parties also. In my experience, sometimes more than one consultation is needed to get as much information as possible, about a range of subjects. In my opinion, don’t ever pay for a consultation – if a coach charges you for a simple discussion, it tells you that their priority is to get paid, not to listen and help you.
The whole purpose of this consultation is for the coach to get as much useable data as possible, on an exhaustive list of subjects. It’s not just about the illnesses you have, but how you function as a person, and more so how you used to function before you got your conditions. Where are you aiming to get to when your life comes back? Where do you see yourself one year from now when your chronic illness has started to recede through consistent adaptations? You just need to make sure that you have your talking hat on and be aware that sometimes consultations can get quite in-depth, and quite emotional. The coach has to ask the hardest questions of all to understand and produce strategies to help you as best as possible. It is always your choice to answer or not answer questions, however, and to go at your own pace.
Infographic of benefits and results from Spoonie Support Personal Coaching
The benefits are limitless once you have your chronic illnesses under control. Long-lost departments of life will return to you and once you have those, other departments will follow. Piece by piece you end up rebuilding your adult life, and doing things that, once-upon-a-time, you didn’t even consider possible.
Sustaining Results
Committing to Personal Coaching for your chronic illness is hard work, there’s no doubt about it. In order to get the results you seek, you must do the work. Whatever this work might be, every part of it is for your own progress. The coach is there to teach, guide, and support, but you’re your own vessel for change. Sustaining good results happen by sustained hard work week in and week out. This work doesn’t necessarily mean literal and physical work – most of it is actually learning and bringing in some often-uncomfortable changes. However, there is one hard and fast truth when it comes to this field of health – results could take a long time. That period of time is relative to yourself and the conditions you endure every day. I have had individuals with Fibromyalgia turn their lives around within 4 months through the right knowledge, pathways and support, but I’ve also had clientele with Fibromyalgia take up to a year to finally reach a place of good change. Persistence is key, with a healthy supply of patience and you will get there.
Conclusion
To conclude, there are benefits for anyone with a chronic illness when it comes to personal coaching. You just need to be willing to take your life back, despite the discomfort change could bring. The coach should always be there to support you, guide you, and introduce strategies at your pace, not theirs. Everything within that coaching sphere should be tailored to you, and by doing so and giving some time and effort, you will reap the rewards of being able to control and manage your chronic illness, no matter what they are.
Mark