Anderson’s Heart Disease & Diabetes Wellness Coaching (AHDDWC) service provides people with heart disease and diabetes educational skills to increase their overall wellness through self-management. At AHDDWC we understand that physicians are not trained to help patients change behavior; doctors are primarily taught how to diagnose and treat disease. Doctors recommend patients to lose weight, exercise more, or eat a healthy diet, but they typically offer little advice on how to accomplish this beyond joining a gym or seeing a nutritionist. Physicians don’t have the time to help patients change behavior and behavior change takes time. On average more than two months is required to successfully make a behavior change which is obviously a lot longer than a typical 15 or 20-minute office visit with a doctor. Health coaching is structured to provide the necessary time to be successful at behavior change. Coaching generally occurs over the course of 5-7 sessions with each session lasting from 30-60 minutes. The majority of physicians do not have a practice structure that accommodates this type of educational interaction! Health coaching works, a 2014 systematic literature review concluded that among adults with chronic diseases, health coaching leads to statistically significant improvements in weight management, physical activity, physical, and mental health status. How is this accomplished? Well, a good health coach will take time to get to know a client and his/her goals, and help formulate a plan to help reach those goals. The right coach will guide clients to make well defined, measurable goals, and will keep clients on track by holding them accountable for making forward progress. Our goal as Heart Disease & Diabetes Wellness coaches is to help people with heart disease and diabetes live full, rich lives, without being hindered by their diagnosis.