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By Joel Kreisberg, DC, PCC, CCH In August, the International Consortium for Health and Wellness Coaching (ICHWC), released the long awaited guidelines for full program approval for health and wellness programs.  Since the Certificate Program in Narrative Health Coaching is approved as a transitional program by the ICHWC, a glimpse
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By Reggie Marra, MA, ACC Some readers may be familiar with one of the many versions of the story of a farmer whose neighbors feel he is the luckiest man they know because of his prized stallion. When the horse jumps the corral and escapes, however, his neighbors are sure
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November 1, 2016 By Joel Kreisberg, DC, ACC “As people become better able to satisfy their desire for comfort, they narrow their range of experience and fall out of practice navigating life’s hardships” -Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener Is there a dark side to the urge to make life more comfortable? 
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June 22, 2016 By Joel Kreisberg, DC, CCH, ACC An essential feature that differentiates coaching from medicine is the identification and clarification of a coaching topic.  In Integral Health Coaching, I call this the healing topic.  Whether a patient or client comes in for coaching or for medicine, I always
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February 11, 2016 By Lois MacNaughton, BA, ACC, Not too long ago I was doing a crossword puzzle and one of the clues was HEALING.  All four spaces were empty so I pondered the possibilities and looked at the adjacent clues which led me to the desired answer of CURE.  Now
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October 19, 2015 By Reggie Marra, MA, IMC, ACC I intentionally began writing a healing narrative in 2012 as part of a project with nine colleagues. The opening sentence from my October 2012 draft read: “My current work with healing explores my parents’ and sister’s respective dyings and deaths, the
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