 I'm a refighter, I'm a nurse leader for the Integrative Health and Medicine program at Hackensack Meridian Health. Health coaching is about supporting individuals who would like to make changes in their lifestyle. Health coaches partner with you to empower you, to support you, to make those life changes and they do it with respect and they are non-judgmental. We have set the standard at Integrative Health and Medicine to have all of our health coaches as registered nurses and they are all nationally board certified in health and wellness coaching. Health coaching really affects all aspects of the process of change. A health coach will look at your life and how it spans across our five pillars of health and well-being. They are activity, sleep, nutrition, resilience, and purpose. As a nurse I have always loved caring for patients and over the years I have found that patients really want to reach their goals, their healthy lifestyle goals, but so often they struggle with how to do that and I believe health coaches really get down into the how and the why. Health coaches are going to work for patients to take those small steps to achieve those goals that work for them and then how can they be sustainable. So I truly believe that health coaching is going to bridge that gap that patients so dearly want to be on that healthy lifestyle span of the health and wellness continuum and health coaching is going to be that vehicle that is going to help them reach those milestones in their life.