Deirdre Walsh – Integrative Health Coach

A kind friend (and lovely soul) sent me a poem this week on how illness and suffering can help us remember our best self – our compassionate, patient and accepting self.  Illness is never a welcome guest. It throws our daily lives into chaos and forces us to strip away the fluff. But we have so much time and energy invested in the fluff that its removal adds yet another layer of anguish to our days. All the things we should be doing . . .  What will I miss? What will I lose? Read the rest of this entry →

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The Wheel of Health, the core of health coaching, gives you seven areas to explore when you’re designing your own health plan. When they’re humming, they provide the balance to let you do anything you can dream up:

• Your body craves strength, flexibility, endurance, and restoration and it tells you when you’ve let any of them slide. Creaky, anyone? Find the right mix of movement, exercise and rest for your body. Focus on balance, the joy of movement, and the importance of rest and sleep. Read the rest of this entry →

Welcome to my Health Design blog.

I’m blogging about my experiment to design my life for optimal health – more vitality, more engagement, and less stress.  I’ll be using the tools I learned at Duke Integrative Medicine this year, while I finished my certificate in Health Coaching.  Tools like designing my personal vision of health using the ideas and values that are important to me.  Making a plan, setting the goals and taking the actions to get there.  Figuring out what is healthy for me and for my family.  And, of course, sharing it all here. Read the rest of this entry →