How Can A Health Coach Can Help You With Lyme Disease?

How a Health Coach Can Help Your Lyme Disease Journey

Are you struggling with Lyme Disease/co-infections or an associated illness? Are you

navigating through pain, fatigue, brain fog and more? Healing from Lyme Disease or any

chronic complex condition can be challenging, unpredictable and emotionally exhausting. It

can make a person feel isolated and alone. It takes a toll on almost every aspect of life,

changing relationships, career, social life and finances. It can feel like everything in your life has

been stolen by illness.



How do I know? I’ve been there. What I found is that even with the most respected physicians,

I still felt alone and overwhelmed. I found it essential to educate myself and be my own

advocate. Even the most skilled physicians struggle to fit multiple agenda items into a 20

minute visit and cannot meet many of the needs of patients with complex conditions. Research

shows that half of patients leave their practitioner visits not understanding what their doctor

told them.

As a Board Certified Health Coach, I am dedicated to providing the kind of support that was

lacking in my own journey. Support that I know would have made a difference in many

important ways. I believe that everyone has the capacity to heal and these are some of the

ways in which a health coach can help you along the way.

▪ A Health Coach can be someone to talk to who completely understands. It is essential to

feel heard and validated. Especially with medical gaslighting being so prevalent, it’s crucial to

feel that there is a safe, non judgmental space where you can sit with and process your

experience.

▪ A Health Coach works with you to set goals and create action plans. Setting goals while

dealing with a complex illness is challenging and nuanced. When healing from Lyme Disease,

it’s important to consider the waxing and waning nature of Lyme symptoms. You might not

know what symptoms or degree of severity of symptoms you might experience on any given

day. Being flexible with yourself, honoring what your body is telling you and still being able to

set realistic, achievable goals is an important skill to develop.

▪ An anti-inflammatory diet is an important part of healing from Lyme Disease. It’s important

to eat clean whole foods, devoid of toxic ingredients such as seed oils and free from any

inflammatory triggers like gluten. I rely on the AIP diet which includes a temporary elimination

phase designed to identify your personal inflammatory food sensitivities or triggers. The

intention is to quickly lower systemic inflammation, allowing the body to process nutrition from

whole foods without unwanted inflammatory reactions, while simultaneously healing the gut. A

Health Coach helps you navigate this sometimes overwhelming process.

▪ It’s important to make the most of your practitioner appointment and I can help you prepare

by working together to organize your thoughts and questions. Typically patients leave these

appointments with detailed protocols for various diet interventions, supplement and medicine

schedules. You might receive lab results from your practitioner. A Health Coach works with you

to lessen the overwhelm by helping you understand your condition, breaking down protocols

into smaller actionable steps, and by generally supporting you through the entire process.

▪ Are you having a big herx reaction? Have symptoms changed? Do things suddenly feel like

they’re no longer working? As your Lyme healing journey progresses you might experience

plateaus, negative reactions or you might even suddenly backslide. A Health Coach can help

you through situations like titrating onto a new medication or managing herx symptoms. I can

assist you in reassessing what’s working and what’s not and can help you articulate these

changes to your practitioner.

▪ Working together, we can help you to make the most of the resources that you have

available (time, energy, focus, finances), prioritizing and emphasizing what is most important to

you.

Healing from Lyme Disease can be one of the most challenging things a person can go

through. So often it feels helpless and people feel they have no idea where to turn. As

someone who’s been through it, I have genuine compassion and respect for the strength and

fortitude necessary to recover from this devastating disease.

If you or a loved one are dealing with Lyme Disease, you don’t need to figure it all out on your

own. Although it can be challenging and unpredictable you can benefit from a strong support

system who’s “been there done that”.

My role as your Health Coach is to walk beside you, validate you, educate you, connect you

with essential resources and to provide guidance and accountability as you navigate this

journey. My ultimate goal is to help you reclaim joy and vitality as you succeed in your quest for

healing and growth.