How Might We Support You?
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Coaching and Health EducationRuth Tongen is board-certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC) and offers coaching support to help you build a foundation for reaching your health goals. Making the kinds of changes in your life that result in enduring benefits to your health and happiness may require support. With deep listening, Ruth will take the time to learn about all of you, encourage you along the way, help you create a plan and goals that fit for you, and check-in points that help you stay on your path.
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Three areas where coaching may be a useful tool for you:
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Desire to Live a Healthier Life
Do you desire to adopt new habits or attitudes related to your health? Maybe you've been wanting to eat more nutritious, whole food or lose weight. Do you want to find more time to relax or exercise? Maybe you've been given some medical advice about prevention but hearing or wanting it and doing it are two different things. |
Changes to Your Health
Are you adjusting to living with a new diagnosis, have concerns about preventing a health condition, or see changes to your functioning? This may cause a host of emotions, and a sense of loss of the familiar, and also opportunity. Having the support of someone you can use as a sounding board as well as facilitate life adjustments you may need to make. |
Navigating a Transition
Are you planning a life transition-- or navigating an unplanned one? Disruption to your lifestyle and habits often comes with the process. As you move into new territory, you may feel you are in uncharted territory and feel exhilaration. Ruth can help you give voice to your direction and plans for moving forward. |
Whatever your situation may be, Ruth can offer you the support of someone who will not only be your sounding board,
but also someone able to facilitate any process of life adjustment you may need to incorporate.
but also someone able to facilitate any process of life adjustment you may need to incorporate.
Acupuncture, Nutrition, and Herbal Medicine
Have you been dealing with a health issue long enough and know it's time to try something different? We utilize acupuncture, nutrition and herbs as tools to restore your well-being.Treatment is individualized for your specific concerns and is used not only to relieve symptoms, but goes further and works to correct the root cause of imbalances in the body. Ruth has graduate training in these modalities.
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Acupuncture
Acupuncture involves inserting very fine needles along mapped pathways on your body with the purpose of stimulating specific neuropathways. More and more, research is showing how acupuncture plays a role in regulating the nervous system, increasing circulation, and enabling pain-killing biochemicals such as endorphins from specific sites. While most often associated with pain management in this country, acupuncture is effective for many internal conditions such as allergies, digestive problems, gynecological issues, and mood issues. The World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health have both evaluated the safety of acupuncture and find it to have a lower rate of side effects and complications than any prescription medication or surgical procedure. |
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Nutrition
Food therapy is often considered the first line of intervention in this medicine. We work with specific properties including flavors and the known effects on the body's temperature. Focusing on foods that match with your health goals has tremendous power. You will receive recommendations for foods that work in alignment with your health goals and ideas for incorporating them into your lifestyle. Each meal or snack is an opportunity to improve your health. |
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Herbal Medicine
Combining natural products such as roots and herbs work with the context of your whole body with fewer side effects. This is among the oldest practices in this medicine. Herbal medicine is often combined with acupuncture to help accelerate your recovery and to provide balance every day. We are careful to consider any medications you take to avoid interactions. |