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Why Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality Belong at the Heart of Coaching — and Lifestyle Medicine Is Finally Catching Up

A landmark paper in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine argues that what coaches have always known is now a clinical imperative For twenty-five years, Wellcoaches has trained health and wellness coaches to start where the client is — not with a diagnosis or a diet plan, but with what matters most to them. What gives their life direction? What they’re willing to fight for when motivation fades, and old habits reassert themselves. Now, a sweeping new supplement published

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CHEF Coaching Graduates

CHEF Coaching Graduate Spotlight ~~ Theresa A. Stone, MD shares both her experience implementing the training she received from the CHEF Coaching Program and patients success stories. May 2021. Learn and Listen . “Thank you, Rani, Sara, Shirley, Jane, and the entire CHEF crew! The tools that I learned in the CHEF Coaching Program equipped me to bridge the gap between nutritional knowledge and patient self-care empowerment. I enjoy sharing whole food recipes and cooking tips

Mar 182 min read

CHEF Coaching Faculty

Karla Arancibia, MD, MPH CHEF Coaching Faculty Karla Arancibia is a lifestyle medicine physician and health and wellness and culinary coach providing services in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She is the co-founder of the Latin American Lifestyle Medicine Association (LALMA). She is a graduate of the CHEF Coaching program and is co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinics in Latin America and owns her own health and wellness coaching practice Healthview Lifesty

Mar 182 min read

CHEF Coaching in the Press

CHEF Coaching Articles Spice up Your Cooking to Cut Down on Salt - Harvard Hart Letter Culinary Medicine: A Recipe for Better Health - US News & World Report Your new Rx for patients health: a good home-cooked meal - American Medical Association Culinary Medicine: A Prescription for Healthier Eating - Scientific American Practice Culinary Medicine in Your Own Kitchen - Heraldtribune Beans: tools to improve health – Vascular Medicine Chef coaching – Joslin Diabetic Ce

Mar 131 min read

Sample Timeline

This is a sample timeline, assuming the student begins in a January cohort. Please note we launch cohorts every month, so the timeline would adjust accordingly.

Feb 251 min read

Culinary Coaching Research

Patient Outcomes Explore selected studies on the impact of culinary coaching interventions across various patient populations and their potential to improve outcomes. Innovation in Diabetes Care: Improving Consumption of Healthy Food Through a “Chef Coaching” Program: A Case Report A case report describing the outcomes of the first culinary coaching program, delivered in 2014. We concluded that a culinary coaching program could help people with diabetes improve their culinar

Feb 63 min read

Culinary Medicine Resources

CHEF Coaching Newsletters Winter 2019 Spring 2019 * Summer 2019 * Fall 2019 Winter 2020 Spring 2020 * Fall 2020 * Winter 2020 * February 2021 * June 2021 * September 2021 * December 2021 * March 2022 * June 2022 *Resources Curated by CHEF Coaching Faculty Recipe Library Recipes - Vegan Eatingwell Wholefoods Recipes Foodnetwork Diabetes-recipes Cookinglight Myrecipes Allrecipes Chopchop Dr-Gourmet Recipes - Jamie Oliver Recipes - BBC Anne & Katie Medichefs

Feb 61 min read

About CHEF Coaching

CHEF Coaching Faculty Culinary Health Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching is a two-part evidence-based program focused on culinary coaching—an innovative telemedicine approach to improve nutrition through culinary training, combined with health coaching principles. Complete our two-part program and earn a “Certificate of Completion in Culinary Coaching” from Wellcoaches School of Coaching Part 1 – CHEF Coaching the Basics (skill-based culinary coaching classes) Part 2 – CH

Jan 294 min read

Celebrating our Wellcoaches' Community success at LM2025

Left to right, Simon Matthews, Susan Benigas, and Dean Ornish Felicitations to the 2025 ACLM Fellows ! A special hurrah to the Wellcoaches community members amongst them!: Qadira Ali, MD, MPH, DipABLM, FACLM , Deborah Chielli, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C, FACLM , Amy Comander, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, MSCP , Sarah-Ann Keyes, EdD, PA-C, DipACLM, FACLM , Simran Malhotra, MD, DipABLM, CHWC, FACLM , and Shanna Mello, EdD, MS, DipACLM, FACLM . Congratulations to UNT Health Fort Worth, Debbie Gil

Dec 17, 20252 min read

Polypharmacy: Scope of Practice and Role for Health & Well-being Coaches

Polypharmacy is defined , usually though not formally, as regular, concurrent use of five or more medications. Meeting this definition is relatively easy for older adults who, on average, take four daily medications. 15% of older adults are taking eight or more meds! This is not a problem confined to those over 65. The young and middle-aged often take prescription medicines to treat depression, pain-remediation, risk factor mitigation, and disease control. We can easily im

Dec 16, 20254 min read

Artificial Intelligence in Coaching

Curiosity, Concern , or Contribution? Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a distant or merely possible concept in the coaching world. It is here. Now. AI in Coaching: Here and Now Over the past few years, discussions about AI in coaching have broadened and deepened. The questions being asked about AI reflect the same level of concern about any new technology which might upend the status quo: Will it remove value from a practice built on empathy and human connection? Will it

Oct 8, 20256 min read