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Working alongside clients as a health coach, I often felt inadequate.
To be honest, I felt inadequate in every role in my life. I was falling short as a coach, parent, and friend. I never had just the right words. I couldn’t fix all the problems. And, I often felt so distracted by my shortcomings that I could barely listen to half of what was being shared with me.
Truth be told, I was getting in my own way. I was burnt out and frustrated by my own pride, willpower, and limitations.
In 2024, I learned about Revelation Wellness’s new training program, LiveWell. LiveWell was designed to teach you “to break free from the struggles that have held you back, so you can lead others toward lasting, Christ-centered transformation with grace and purpose.”
This was an answer to my prayers. I knew God would use this program to transform me as a coach. But, I didn’t anticipate how much it would change the rest of my life.
After completing the 9-weeks of training, I was certified as a LiveWell Health Coach. And, my coaching, my parenting, my relationships, my prayer life, and my time with God were all transformed.
What is a LiveWell Christian Health Coach?
A LiveWell Health Coach works alongside the Holy Spirit to transform lives through Christ. Through training, participants study the Bible to learn what God says about our bodies. LiveWell Health Coaches learn how to sit with the Holy Spirit, allow God to love them, and love others through health coaching.
After I completed my LiveWell training, I was reenergized, refocused, and fired up to begin accepting health coaching clients again. As is God’s way, He soon placed people in my life who welcomed the idea that God wants to speak to them. I found myself regularly sitting alongside people who were hungry to hear from God.
LiveWell Health Coach training changed me. Instead of being distracted by my worries about having the “right words to say,” I now listen to others to hear their need for God, not for what I can offer! The pressure is off of me.
Now my shoulders are lower as I coach yoked with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the guide, and I work alongside Him.
4 Ways to Use Your Christian Health Coaching Certification
Individual Health Coaching
I love to do one-on-one health coaching sessions over Zoom or at the gym. During these one-hour sessions, the client has my undivided attention. We can work towards goals or work out issues of the heart and spirit with the skills I learned through LiveWell Training.
Group Health Coaching
I faciliate online and in-person groups in which we go through books such as The Body Revelation, The Wellness Revelation, Grace-Filled Habits (the book I authored), and The 40-Day Sugar Fast.
Revelation Wellness also offers many programs and meet-ups that I am equipped to facilitate as a LiveWell Health Coach. These programs and groups have helped to create supportive accountability and new habits for the participants.
Workshops & Seminars
I facilitate health and wellness workshops for members in the gym where I work. There may be opportunities for you to lead workshops and seminars in community centers, recreation centers, or even local parks.
Family
This area is a work in progress, but there has definitely been progress. Through training and working with clients, I’ve learned to be a better listener. I’m learning to apply this with my husband and daughters at home, to be less of a “fixer” and more of a listener. I pray more and ask more open-ended questions, rather than telling them what to do.
Interested in Becoming a Health Coach?
LiveWell training is perfect for you if you desire to be a coach or to improve your ability to come alongside others in love.
Some of the benefits are: learning to sit with people in their pain and discomfort, learning to listen to the Holy Spirit alongside a client, learning to resist going into fix-it mode, learning to ask thought-provoking questions, and learning to incorporate practices that calm the nervous system.
I loved my LiveWell training! And, I absolutely love the opportunities the training has given me to be a guide at the side of the Holy Spirit and watch Him move others towards loving God and their bodies.
Lisa Ostreim, M.Ed., is a LiveWell Health Coach from Brigade 1, RevX Fitness Instructor from Platoon 28, and a published author. She lives in Washington state with her husband and daughters. Lisa loves helping women find freedom from diets and gratitude for their bodies. You can find Lisa on her website.
