Chronic Illness Support Coaching

What is chronic illness support coaching?

Chronic Illness Support Coaching is a form of health and wellness coaching designed to help individuals navigate the physical, emotional, and lifestyle challenges of living with a chronic illness. It provides personalized guidance, education, and emotional support to improve well-being and quality of life.

What Does a Chronic Illness Coach Do?

A chronic illness support coach typically helps clients with:

• Symptom Management: Strategies for reducing pain, fatigue, and flare-ups.
• Nervous System Regulation: Techniques like breathwork, mindfulness, and brain retraining to help manage stress and autonomic dysfunction.
• Lifestyle Adjustments: Guidance on sleep, movement, nutrition, and pacing to improve daily functioning.
• Emotional and Mindset Support: Coping tools for dealing with frustration, grief, and mental health challenges associated with chronic illness while setting healthy boundaries.
• Advocacy and Navigation: Assistance with medical appointments, self-advocacy, and understanding treatment options.
• Community and Accountability: Support in setting realistic goals and maintaining motivation.

The strain of chronic illness

Having a chronic illness is a job in itself. Betsy offers one-on-one chronic illness support coaching to help you understand your triggers, develop a rescue plan, and manage the everyday details of life that can be overwhelming.

Betsy understands chronic illness from the inside out, having Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Lyme Disease, nervous system dysregulation, SIBO, and mold toxicity. She writes about her journey with chronic illness here on her blog called MyInertLife.

Nervous system retraining

Betsy’s chronic illness coaching work is grounded in the need for nervous system retraining, and a combination of top-down and bottom-up nervous system healing approaches is ideal.

For bottom-up nervous system healing, Betsy offers the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), and for top-down nervous system retraining, she offers the Sacred Self-Healing Method, which is a self-forgiveness process detailed in her books and YouTube videos.

What is included in a coaching session

In one-on-one coaching sessions, Betsy helps you to define your current limitations, explore practices to expand your sense of peace and well-being, and learn how to identify areas of your life calling for attention so that the underlying emotional and spiritual aspects of your chronic illness can heal.

The frustration and mental fatigue of managing a chronic illness are real, and the benefits of having a coach like Betsy are well worth the investment!

Cost

The cost of each 60-minute session is $100*. Please complete the New Client Form and schedule here. Betsy also offers free info sessions to get your questions answered before starting chronic illness coaching.

*A sliding fee scale is available for people with a limited income.