Life Coach

Life Coach

Jen Johnson is a life coach offering coaching services for adults with an emphasis on stress reduction, resilience, and wellness.

Coaching sessions focus on increasing self-awareness, learning skills to reduce stress and increase resilience, taking action to develop healthy mental habits and lifestyle changes that promote well-being.

Jen’s areas of Life Coach specialty:

Jen Johnson is a board certified coach with an emphasis on health and wellness. She offers coaching services to support people in improving overall well-being and resilience.

Jen’s life coaching areas of specialty include:

• stress relief
• stress management
• resilience
• wellness
• finding joy after loss
• mindfulness, meditation
• increasing positive emotional states that promote well-being (such as joy, compassion, gratitude, beauty, and awe)

Jen will coach you to:

• Decrease overwhelm and increase inner calm
• Develop lifestyle habits that support well-being and resilience
• Learn to cultivate positive emotions that promote well-being
• Create a life that you want to wake up to in the morning
  

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we would work well together.

Jen’s Approach to Life Coaching

Jen Johnson has been a life coach for 20+ years. She has been offering stress reduction and mindfulness training services for 35+ years.

Jen coaches you to increase awareness of your values and strengths so that you can live in a way that aligns with your most authentic self.

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

Carl Jung

Jen’s approach to life coaching and health and wellness coaching includes:
assessment of your current wellness challenges and skills
stress relief, stress management
mindfulness training and mindfulness coaching
mind body wellness strategies
resilience skills training
therapeutic journaling prompts
creativity practices to promote well-being

Mindfulness Training to Support Wellness

Practicing mindfulness has been shown to increase a sense of peace, happiness, and well-being and decrease symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, pain, grief, trauma, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disorders. and other illnesses.

With Jen Johnson as your coach, you will learn Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) practices to help you decrease stress and increase a sense of calm, happiness, and well-being. Jen participated in training with Jon Kabat-Zinn through the University of Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic.

Practicing mindfulness can support you to increase self-awareness. You can then use the self-awareness to notice the habits that are contributing to your stress, and learn how to develop new habits that support wellness. It is possible for you to learn to experience a greater sense of inner peace and well-being, even if you are living with chronic or terminal illness.

Mindfulness and Stress Related Illness

It is estimated that 90% of all illness is stress related. A study in 2018 showed that people who were diagnosed with a stress disorder, were more likely to develop an autoimmune disorder and were more likely to develop multiple autoimmune disorders than people without a stress disorder.

Mindfulness has been shown to decrease stress, improve immunity, and decrease symptoms of stress. Studies have shown that meditation helps to regulate the stress response and that it suppresses chronic inflammation and maintains a healthy gut-barrier function.

Decades of research have shown that mindfulness is effective in reducing stress, anxiety and depression and increasing a sense of peace, happiness, and wellbeing.

Jen offers life coaching, health coaching to help you improve wellbeing and increase a sense of happiness and life satisfaction.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if you and Jen would work well together.

EIGHT DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS

There are eight dimensions of wellness. We will assess your level of wellness in each of these eight dimensions of wellness and help you to increase wellness in each of these areas.

Emotional Wellness
Emotional wellness involves learning to decrease stress and become attentive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It involves cultivating an optimistic style of thinking and developing awareness and acceptance of your feelings and  a capacity to manage them in a healthy way.

Physical Wellness
Physical wellness involves decreasing stress as well as developing body awareness, eating healthy foods, getting adequate sleep, nurturing and caring for your physical being, and engaging in physical activity.

Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual wellness encourages discovering a sense of meaning and purpose and connection with something larger than you. It relates to the capacity of being able to balance your inner needs with the needs of the world.

Social Wellness
Social wellness involves creating positive and meaningful relationships, utilizing healthy communication skills, maintaining respect toward yourself and others, and creating a healthy support system.

Intellectual Wellness
Intellectual wellness encourages engaging in stimulating creative and mental activities and developing knowledge and skills. It involves discovering your potential for sharing your gifts with the world in meaningful ways.

Occupational Wellness
Occupational wellness emphasizes discovering your calling and engaging in work that is personally meaningful and consistent with your passion, values, and life purpose. It involves learning to balance work and leisure time.

Financial Wellness
Financial wellness encourages informed decision-making regarding finances, ability to use credit wisely, and skills for saving, planning, and investing in your future.

Environmental Wellness
Environmental wellness encourages living in harmony with the natural world and understanding the impact of your interaction with nature and the environment. It also involves caring for your well-being by protecting yourself from environmental toxins and contributing to the well-being of the environment.