Empowering Health & Wellness with Beyond Brave: Holistic Health Coaching by Sarah Hehir
Unlock Your Inner Strength and Create Lasting Wellness
“Every moment is a fresh beginning”- T. S. Eliot
Welcome to Beyond Brave
Beyond Brave is a practice dedicated to harnessing your courage and inner strength to support a lifestyle of health and wellness that truly matters to you. This is accomplished through open and supportive conversations based on proven health coaching methods that foster a nurturing and understanding relationship between you and your health coach. Working together, we will identify your health concerns, habits that are already helping you, and find practical opportunities for reliable and sustainable change to enable your long term success.
What is a Health Coach?
Health coaches are certified experts who take an integrative and holistic approach to health, specializing in human behavior and self-motivation to drive lifestyle changes for better health. Fondly known as “change agents”, health coaches empower individuals to discover their own, unique "WHY" — the core reasons that drive their desire for change. By guiding and supporting clients, health coaches empower them to become experts on their own lives, including their mind, body, and the circumstances they face. Through evidence-based methods like motivational interviewing, positive psychology, and the stages of change, health coaches assist clients in identifying their strengths, values, and goals when it comes to health and wellness. They also help bridge the gap between personal health objectives or a doctor's diagnosis and the practical realities of everyday life.
How Can Beyond Brave’s Health Coaching Support You?
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Whether you are looking to lose, gain, or re-shape your body, a health coach has strategies to help you work towards healthy and sustainable weight management strategies. Say goodbye to unsustainable dieting and hello to a new and fresh way to manage your weight.
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Gain insight into your unique interests and learn how to channel what you already enjoy (and what you may not yet know you enjoy) into developing a lifelong habit of regular physical activity that supports your goals—whether it's maintaining or improving health and everyday mobility, enjoying recreational activities, or engaging in competitive athletics.
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By focusing on your unique needs and preferences, with an emphasis on whole, minimally processed foods, health coaches can guide you in adopting healthy eating practices for a realistic and sustainable eating plan that works for you.
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Partnership with a health coach can help you make positive changes and develop habits that help you improve health parameters such as cholesterol, blood pressure, A1C, or other health markers that are important to you. Whether your aim is to manage a chronic health condition or you are hard at work to prevent the onset of chronic disease, a health coach can be your partner in success!
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Regain your sense of youth, re-energize, and learn how to harness your body’s natural capacity to win the war against chronic inflammation.
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The foundation of overall health and wellness! A healthy gut performs numerous vital functions in our bodies, including supporting over 70% of our immune function, balancing hormones, producing and absorbing vitamins, supporting energy production, modulating the nervous system, and much more. A healthy gut not only helps protect you from chronic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease, but caring for your gut will also help you transition from surviving to thriving. Learn how to eat in a way that restores and maintains positive gut health.
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Hormones influence nearly every aspect of your life, including your mood, behavior, body shape, metabolism, eating habits, sleep, and how you respond to stress. Insulin, cortisol, and sex hormones are key players, along with numerous others. Whether you're navigating symptoms associated with menopause, trying to improve blood sugar regulation, or dealing with the effects of sex hormone imbalances—such as low libido, reproductive challenges, skin issues, and more—achieving a happy and healthy life depends on maintaining hormonal balance.
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Chronic pain can lead to changes in the body’s nervous system that increases the perception of pain beyond that of an initial injury or onset. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, stress, and insomnia are often strongly affiliated with chronic pain and make the healing process challenging. Health coaching supports the healing process in those living with chronic pain by taking small steps to create awareness and change.
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Trouble falling asleep? Staying asleep? Waking up feeling depleted before the day has even begun? Focus on positive sleep habits that help restore your body’s natural circadian rhythm, so you can wake up feeling energized, rejuvenated, and ready to face whatever the day may bring!
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We’ve all felt it—stress from demanding schedules, challenging work, lack of sleep, difficult relationships, battling an illness, managing a health condition, feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or excessively fatigued. Regardless of the source, unmanaged stress triggers our bodies into fight-or-flight mode, raising cortisol levels and increasing blood sugar. The ability to effectively manage stress in a healthy manner is key to maintaining a balanced and healthy life.
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Recognizing that holistic health is more than just the sum of its parts, living a joyful and fulfilling life is hardly attainable without the energy and drive to become the best version of yourself—physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Working to understand your unique values and experiences will lead you to discover your WHY—the motivating factor that helps you make the positive changes you desire.
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Meaningful relationships provide emotional support, foster a sense of belonging, and contribute to mental and physical well-being. Strong social connections reduce stress, enhance resilience, and promote a sense of purpose. Positive relationships also encourage healthy behaviors and can improve overall life satisfaction, playing a crucial role in achieving balance across all areas of health—mind, body, and spirit.
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