A Inside Look at Health Coaching - Special Series
We're doing something we've never done before on So Frickin' Healthy. We're opening the doors to real health coaching sessions and letting you listen in.
Over the next six episodes, you'll hear actual coaching conversations between Danna and a client we're calling Joanna. This isn't polished. This isn't edited to sound perfect. This is real coaching in action, with all the messy, honest, breakthrough moments that come with it.
Why are we sharing this?
Because so many of you ask us what health coaching actually looks like. How does it work? What happens in these sessions? What kind of changes can happen when you have someone helping you navigate your health challenges?
This series answers those questions.
What you'll gain from listening:
You'll see how coaching helps someone work through real health challenges. You'll learn tools and strategies you can apply to your own health journey. You'll understand what it's like to work with a health coach. And you might just recognize yourself in some of these conversations.
Meet Joanna
Joanna is a woman in her early 40s dealing with the kind of health struggles so many of you tell us about. She's generously agreed to share her coaching journey with you, and we're incredibly grateful for her vulnerability and openness.
This is a six-episode series. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any part of Joanna's journey.
If you want to hear the all of the coaching sessions (the real-time coaching conversations between Danna and Joanna), listen on So Frickin’ Healthy.
Access to coaching sessions playlist
If you want the coaching “behind the scenes” (health history, coaching debriefs, and Joanna’s reflection), listen on Becoming a Health Coach.
Access to the "behind the scenes" playlist
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Want more? If you're curious about the coaching strategies being used in each session, head over to our other podcast, Becoming a Health Coach. Megan and Danna debrief after each session and break down what's happening behind the scenes.
Megan McCrory
Hey there. We've got something very special for you. We're doing something we've never done before on so Freaking Healthy.We're taking you inside real health coaching sessions. In this series of six episodes, you'll hear actual coaching conversations between Donna and a client.We're not editing out any of the messy parts, just real coaching in action. But you might ask, why are we doing this? Well, we know so many of you are curious about what health coaching actually looks like.What happens in these sessions, and how does the process actually work? What kind of shifts can happen when you have someone in your corner helping you figure out your health?Here's what we hope you get by listening to this coaching series. We want you to see how coaching helps someone work through real health challenges.We want you to learn tools and strategies you can apply to your own health journey. We want you to understand what it's like to work with a health coach. And maybe, just maybe, you'll recognize yourself in some of these conversations.Let's meet Joanna. That's not her real name, of course. She's chosen to use a pseudonym to protect her privacy.And we're so grateful she's letting us share her journey with you. Joanna is a woman in her early 40s navigating the kind of health challenges so many of you tell us about.Let's hear from her what she wants to work on. Here are a few clips from Joanna's health history.
"Joanna"
Yeah, I struggle with that. I think I wrote it in my form, right?I want to be able to have the kind of concentration capacity and memory capacity that I used to have before my attention was pulled in 10 directions all the time at work.I can still focus, but I do see that, you know, I used to be able to just dive into a topic and just get lost in that deep work flow zone and be there for hours. And then I'd look up, oh, it's three o' clock already.And now I put the phone away, close all the tabs and I still struggle like I need to chew or like have a fidget toy to get through like a long document or something. I am trying to eat, I guess you could say a climate conscious diet. So that's why I am drawn to the more vegan diet.I think also it's shown to be healthy if you can manage to get the right macronutrients and stuff. It's not always feasible. And then I also had this problem with all of my joints kind of all at once being very inflamed. I had a Frozen shoulder.And then I had like plantar fasciitis and knee pain and tennis elbow and carpal tunnels, like really systemic. And no doctor could tell me what was going on. And I also just saw my weight kind of start to creep up when I started to have those problems.And I tell you, Donna, there was a year when I just thought my scale was broken because as my clothes still fit the same, but the number just keeps going up. And then I was like, I just don't believe it. Like, I have to get a gym membership again so I can go see a neutral scale. Number is.And then I bought a new scale and I calibrated it and everything and I was like, oh, crap, this is the actual number.So it's, you know, I've been diagnosed with pcos and my hormone levels were always just like way out of the norm for what they should be until a couple years ago. And then now, you know, they said the first step to check if you're in perimenopauses office to check your hormones.And they're like, no, no, your hormones are exactly where they should be. And I'm like, well, they were never in the case for the rest of my life. So there has been a change, right?And now I'm getting these like regular cycles, a little bit long, but like fairly regular. And I've only missed like one period in the past two. Two years. But it's not perimenopause. Okay,
Megan McCrory
so here's how this works. This is a six episode series. You'll hear Joanna's coaching journey unfold across six sessions.We appreciate her vulnerability in sharing her story and being so open about her health struggles. Make sure you're subscribed to so freaking Healthy in your favorite podcast app, Super. You. Don't miss any of these sessions.Or you could head over to our website so freakinhealthy.com and sign up for our email list to get notified when each new episode drops.
