Three Pillars of Health Coaching: Patient Activation, Motivational Interviewing and Positive Psychology provides the fundamentals of three essential tools that health coaches can use to measure and monitor activation levels, elicit behavior change, move clients along the path to self-management and have a positive impact on health outcomes and u...

Today dieters are more frustrated than ever before: Neither restrictive dieting nor a moderate middle-of-the-road approach has curtailed the obesity epidemic....

The Coaching Psychology Manual is the first coaching textbook in healthcare, and is now being translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Hebrew....

This article provides an overview of lifestyle medicine and useful resources.

Coaching for leaders with "Mindsight": A review of the work of Dr. Dan Siegel, M.D.:...

Throughout this MasterClass, you will hear, see, and read as Dr. Jim Loehr discusses how executive coaching has the potential to impact the health and well-being of corporate America and the strategies he has successfully employed at Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance Institute....

Food addiction is a hot topic in the mainstream press as well as in scientific literature. Dr. Pamela Peeke is an expert on this topic and has written a powerful book, The Hunger Fix, in order to empower clients, coaches, and physicians to not only better understand this addiction, but to better manage it....

The US Army launched the Global Assessment Tool (GAT) – a 105-item psychometric instrument taken by approximately one million soldiers annually – in October, 2009 in support of a population-wide resilience development initiative known as the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program....

The Almost Effect was developed at Harvard Medical School in collaboration with many experts from Harvard Medical School, Hazelden and other institutions.Do you think your pot smoking is hindering your relationships? Does it feel as if you're just a tad too dependent on the pills your doctor prescribed for pain?...

In The Hunger Fix, Dr. Pam Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioral "fixes" have gotten us ensnared in a vicious cycle of overeating and addiction. She even shows that dopamine rushes in the body work exactly the same way with food as with cocaine....