The Health Coach Show with Sharon Curtain
What happens when people living with chronic conditions know what they should do but still struggle to implement these health recommendations into everyday life?
In this episode of The Health Coach Show, Sharon Curtain is joined by Caitlyn Toomey, a health coach working with EACH in Melbourne, to explore the role health coaching can play in chronic disease management.
In this episode, we talk about:
- What health coaching looks like in chronic disease care and how it complements the clinical role of nurses and other health professionals.
- Why the gap for many people isn't a lack of knowledge - it's figuring out how to implement health recommendations into everyday life.
- How health coaches can help people work through the complex combination of physical, social and environmental barriers that can keep them stuck.
- The importance of meeting people where they're at rather than expecting them to make dramatic changes.
- Why small, achievable steps can build confidence and create a "domino effect" of positive changes.
- How listening - including being comfortable with silence - can help clients explore their own thoughts and identify what is really important to them.
- Moving from telling clients what they should work on to asking what is important to them and what they want to work on.
- How health coaching can provide a bridge between the different professionals involved in someone's care.
- What changed for Caitlyn after completing formal health coach training.
- The difference between being client-centred in intention and having the practical skills to genuinely empower a client.
- Why health coaching can help people move from feeling overwhelmed and passive to feeling more confident and in control of their health.
Health coaching helps make the steps small enough to feel achievable, reducing the pressure to completely change your life overnight and making it easier to get started.
Listen to the episode to hear Caitlyn and Sharon discuss:
How health coaching can be the missing piece in helping people living with chronic conditions move from knowing what to do to actually doing it — and why the key is coming alongside, helping them to recognise and overcome barriers.
About Caitlyn
Caitlyn Toomey is a health coach working in chronic disease care with EACH in Melbourne. She works as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting people living with chronic conditions, collaborating with nurses and other health professionals while using health coaching to support behaviour change, self-management and personally meaningful goals.
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