User:Lisa Guida/Mental Wellness Coaching

Mental Wellness Coaching is a niche specializing in reclaiming your life when someone in your family is mentally ill. In these circumstances it is often easy to become overwhelmed and fall into victim mode. In terms of wellness coaching this would be identified as being in protecting mode as opposed to learning mode. Mental wellness is a subset of wellness approach to health which '''John W. Travis. M.D., author of Wellness Workbook How to Achieve Enduring Health and Vitality,''' began in the 1970's.

As Travis defines it, "Wellness is a choice - a decision you make to move toward optimal health." That same definition also applies to mental wellness. It's a decision to have choices as opposed to habitually reacting to things. You can learn to stop and evaluate what is going on and then respond as opposed to react.