Integrated Health, Coaching

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Integrated Health, CoachingHAESupporting
Stress Management
Presented 29 November 2014 Andrea Carew, B.Sc.,
M.M.S., I.H.C
The Link Health Lifestyle Consulting Inc.
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Housekeeping Suggestions ?

• Hold questions until the question period before
  break and again at end of todays presentation
• Exceptions Important Clarifications

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What is Integrated Health (IH) and IH Coaching?

• A missing link in healthcare
• A disease management system vs healthcare system
• Many experience difficulty making and sustaining
  lifestyle and behaviour change for better health
• Some feel unable or dont expect to participate
  in their own care (self-care?)
• Current healthcare system not designed to support
  patients in addressing complex factors driving
  their health and lifestyle choices, hence cant
  address whole person
• Examples diabetes, heart disease, obesity,
  hypertension

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What is Integrated Health IH Coaching? II

• Health as more than absence of disease
• Prevention is a great reason to use an IH coach!
  Dont need a chronic disease in your life to
  motivate you toward self-care

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Integrative Medicine A Transformative Model
Contemporary ? ? ? ? Integrative Care

• Disease oriented
• Treat symptoms
• Find it, fix it
• Biomed intervention/high-tech
• Reactive, Sporadic
• Individual largely left to enact
• Physician focused and directed

• Health oriented
• Treat symptoms whole person
• Identify risk, minimize it
• Whole person approach/high-touch
• Proactive, Lifelong planning
• Support in implementation
• Partnership-based

Credit Duke Integrative Medicine for Duke
University Health System (2012)
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Integrative Health and HAE

• Hopefully given you a very broad understanding of
  IH and coaching
• What is your experience with our healthcare
  system?
• What can an integrated healthcare approach offer
  you?
• Focus today on a key HAE trigger STRESS

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But First What is Stress?

• Stress responses are necessary in our lives
• An evolutionary basis which served an important
  function
• Significant physiological changes occur when
  stress response triggered (a body as well as a
  mind experience)
• Cortisol levels, blood sugar, pressure and heart
  rate up, digestive function, metabolism and
  immuno-response down
• The stress response, including these changes, are
  automatic
• Recovery from the stress response and triggers
  are not!
• As normal and necessary as stress is, sustained
  stress can and does seriously impact our health
  and well-being

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• What would an IH approach to stress management
  for HAE look like
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Opportunities for Self-care to help Manage Stress

• If the Wheel of Health represents the
  whole you
• What areas are triggers of stress for you?
• What areas help ease your stress, or are a source
  of calm, peace?
• Which areas of your life here do you feel need
  some attention and care?
• Which areas do you feel strong in?
• How can your areas of strength help you better
  manage your stress triggers?
• What changes do you need to make to better care
  for yourself and manage stress?

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Lets take a comfort break
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Mindful Awareness

• Demonstration Be comfy, close your eyes for
  several breaths.
• Focus your awareness on inhaling and exhaling.
  Dont change your breathing. Follow or focus your
  attention on your natural breathing cycle.

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Mindful Awareness

• Not meditation rather intentionally quieting
  the mind
• Noticing the minds tendencies and impacts on us,
  and health
• Defined as paying attention to present moment
  experiences with openness, curiosity, and a
  willingness to be with what is. It is an antidote
  to the stresses of modern times. It invites us to
  stop, breathe, observe, and connect with one's
  inner experience.
• Can be trained systematically, and can be
  implemented in daily life, by people of any age,
  profession or background.
• Sources
• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Centre
• Duke Integrative Medicine
• Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Full catastrophe living
  Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face
  stress, pain, and illness Fifteenth anniversary
  edition. New York Bantam Dell.

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• In the last ten years, significant research
  shows that a regular mindful awareness practice
  helps address health issues including
• lower blood pressure
• help regulate cortisol levels in a healthier way
• boost the immune system
• increase attention and focus
• help with difficult mental states such as
  anxiety, depression
• foster well-being and less emotional reactivity
• thicken the brain in areas in charge of decision
  making, emotional flexibility, and empathy
• Source UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Centre

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Mindful awareness practice decreases our
overall reactivity to stressful situations, helps
us recognize and interpret the stress response
once triggered and supports us in establishing
calm and recovery sooner and for longer periods
of time. Cultivating more present moment
awareness supports greater enjoyment, better
communication, healthier state of mind, enhanced
sense of self empowerment And importantly
greater awareness of choice
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Take-Away Tools! Mind/Body Connection Mindful
Awareness
So - lets try that again
? Beginning a Mindful Awareness Practice of
your own!
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Thank You! Contact me for more
Anytime! Andrea_at_thehealthlink.ca Tel 902 579
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