Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path

Lifestyle is made up of the decisions you make on a daily basis, the routines you engage in, your habits, your social network, your occupation, your involvement in family, the influence of religion and spirituality, diet, exercise, and all of the other aspects I call, “Life Factors.”

What Exactly are the “Life Factors”?

Diet

  • Frequency—How often do you eat?
  • How much—Too many; too few calories?
  • Type of food—Healthy or not? Or calories, fats, protein

Exercise

  • Frequency—How often?
  • Duration—For how long each session?
  • Type—Cardio?, weights? sets? etc.
  • Intensity—How hard you’re working out.

Social Life and Relationships

  • Friends
  • Family
  • Romantic relationships
  • Co-Workers/occupational relationships
  • Daily navigating (e.g., shop clerks, bank tellers, supermarket employees, etc)

Play

  • Activities you enjoy—inside and outdoor
  • Hobbies
  • Attending events
  • The arts/creativity
  • Family involvement

Occupation

  • Working with others
  • Job stress
  • The nature of your position—what needs are and aren’t being satisfied
  • Meaning and purpose of the job.
  • What does productivity mean to you?

Home Life

  • Habits the surround where you live
  • Routine of the household
  • Pets
  • Children
  • Relatives

Finances

  • Managing finances
  • Reduction of outgoing costs
  • Maintaining happiness on a reduced budget
  • Increasing your funds—job changes?

Religion

  • The role of religion in your life?
  • Is there a social aspect to religion in your life?
  • How does religion affect what you think, feel, and do in your life?
  • Culture and religion
  • Your values and religion
  • Your family and religion

Spirituality/Existentialism

  • What gives you meaning and purpose in your life?
  • What gives you hope in life?
  • Does religion and spirituality mean the same thing to me?
  • What drives me to live in everyday life?
  • Who am I?  What is my identity? And what’s my role here in this world?
  • The role of positive life energy (or negative), the direction of the universe, and how people live in the universe.

Lifestyle coaching involves modifying factors (such as the above) to better your quality of life.  This may be as direct as changing exercise and diet, finding a better job, or as simple as discovering new friends; or it can be a more in-depth task such as exploring spirituality and creating more meaning and purpose in your life.

Common Thoughts That Surround “Spirituality”

  • What gives me meaning and purpose?
  • I don’t feel like same person anymore?
  • What used to make me happy isn’t enjoyable anymore.
  • I’ve lost my path in life.
  • What things do I have to look forward to?
  • After retirement I just don’t feel the same way.

Lifestyle Coaching and Dr. Schwartz

Finding the Right Path

Whether it’s “optimizing” and getting the most out of where you are right now in your life, or starting over again from the ground up, working with Dr. Schwartz to improve your life is essential.

With Dr. Schwartz You’ll Explore

  • What are the barriers to change?
  • Are there emotions that block progress?
  • What about motivation?
  • What are the internal and external forces at work?
  • What are fears that may prevent me from changing life factors?
  • The role of anxiety and depression in life change
  • Why is that you might have lost a direction?

Dr. Schwartz’ Therapy to Lifestyle Coaching

Dr. Schwartz provides a non-judgmental, productive environment to not only problem-solve “Life Factors,” but to understand barriers to change, process them, and create lasting change to improve quality of life and establish direction.  It is typically a team approach involving empathy, understanding, as well as counseling and psychotherapy.  Thus it is a combination of problem-solving, thoughtfulness and analysis, and practicality.  In addition, Biofeedback and Hypnotherapy may also be included to explore the impact of stress on change as well as role of the unconscious mind.  In fact, all available tools to encourage positive change may be used.

Summary

Dr. Schwartz can help you learn techniques, concepts, and skills to improve overall quality of life in such areas as finances/occupation, social connections, interpersonal relations, spirituality and religion, etc. “How can I make my life more fulfilling in meaning, purpose, wealth, love….where do I go from here?” The road ahead…