Sooo, I am feeling more than sheepish when I look and see that my last post was …
…um…
…written in 2011. Please accept my apologies! Seems like I have been caught up in the insanity of life and my blog (and creative writing!) has taken a hit.
Anyway, I thought I would introduce to you what has been keeping me on my toes. I decided to take the schooling plunge again and have started the process of becoming a certified Wellness Coach. I am doing this through the Wellcoach organization, based in the US, and have found it to be an excellent learning experience. First and foremost, I have decided I am rather old-school through my discovery that the world of education has drastically changed to a virtual on-line world, and how much I like the original way of textbooks and overhead projectors, ha ha ha. Anyway, I am pushing past this and making out just fine!
I the reason I decided to pursue this certification is that I really wanted to have the opportunity to take health promotion to the next level and work directly with individuals. As much as I thoroughly love facilitating, and expressing the “teacher genes” I have from my incredible parents, I have always wanted to take things further. There was an amazing article posted this past January in Benefits Canada outlining what this type of coaching is all about, which I have linked for you here:
http://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-wellness/coaching-your-employees-way-to-health-24914
Although in this article, the authors speak to the benefits of “Lifestyle health coaching” mostly in terms of corporate buy-in, these benefits hold true for anyone wanting assistance in achieving their optimal well-being. It is a very interesting concept and definitely worth the quick read!
Hopefully soon, I will be able to say that I am a certified Wellness Coach and can put into practice everything I have been learning. Oh, I’m not going to lie, although access to an on-line textbook was part of my tuition fees, I still went and purchased the hard copy. There is something so satisfying about lovingly destroying a text book with a high-lighter, the same type of purple pen I have been using since high school, and dog-earring the pages 
Now that is how I learn!