What is Health and Wellness Coaching?

Wellness coaching is like “mental fitness” – it’s about creating a safe, judgment-free space to stretch and grow your mental and emotional state for the betterment of your health and well-being.

Partnering with a coach can be the key to unlocking your potential when you feel stuck in patterns that aren’t serving you. It offers a fresh perspective and new ways to achieve your wellness goals you might find hard to tackle alone.

As your partner in health, I’ll help you see yourself through the lens of self-love, gratitude, and self-compassion so you can dream big and design the life you deserve to live!

I specialize in weight loss/weight maintenance & improving your relationship with your body and food, time management, organization, and finding the motivation to make livable, sustainable change while enjoying your life to the fullest.

Terra Ayres Health and Wellness Coaching

You can count on me to be the accountability partner in whatever way works best for YOU, so you can stay out of your own way!

Why Coaching?

Coaching Differs From Therapy, Consulting, and Mentoring

Other service professions, like consulting and psychotherapy, are based on the wisdom and expertise of the professional. In coaching, you are the expert.

My role as your coach is to ask powerful questions and communicate clearly to help you get to the heart of your desires in life, to act as a sounding board, provide objective assessment and observations, listen fully and actively, challenge your blind spots, and foster shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives and provide accountability.

We will embark on this journey together…you provide the destination, and I provide the navigation!

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Hey Terra – I wanted to give you some feedback on this week’s episode and tell you I love that you started by telling us to “table the action” because we really want to focus on how we’re feeling and that’s the big motivator that helps us with perspective so thank you! I also love that you talk about “our essence” because I really believe that by looking deep inside ourselves and celebrating our essence (who we are at our core) is what drives us and what makes us feel empowered (at least for me)! Thank you, thank you and I will be watching the rest of the video later tonight curled up with my pup!!

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“Working with Terra has helped me take the needed steps to make positive changes in my life. I look forward to our sessions, they are thought provoking and motivate me to continue working on myself.”

Teacher and Mom of 4, Texas

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Terra……”bookending” my week with you is exactly what I have been missing on my weight loss journey! Thank you for the opportunity to preview and give feedback on your new weekly coaching video subscription! Being able to sit down for 30 minutes at the start and end of each week with a your video makes a big difference in my commitment to my goals. Without having you to walk me through it, I was not doing it at all even though I knew it was helpful to me on my journey before. I think you are spot on with the information and motivation you share and the questions you ask really do make me slow down and think. I already feel re-energized so hurry up and launch it so I can keep going:)

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“I highly recommend Terra Ayres as Certified Health and Wellness Coach. I find she has all the necessary qualifications to fit her title. I find her intelligent, competent, empathetic, and very personable. She’s helped me make changes that have significantly improved the quality of my life.”

Sales Representative and Father of 2, California

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Terra, when I first saw the video about journaling this week I thought… hmmm. I wasn’t sure. I finally had some quiet time to really, really sit and listen. WOW! You’re amazing and doing what you are meant to do!! You left me with so many thoughts and made me dig deeper into myself. This really has me thinking about my journey and my feelings. Thank you so much!! Also, never limit yourself to a time. That would be a shame if you did. Use what time you need! I am going for a walk now and will be in deep thought.

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“Terra is a wonderful Health and Wellness Coach. She really listens to me and is so supportive and helpful. I feel like she leads me in the right direction with very positive ideas that I can use in my life. I am very grateful to be working with her.”

Retired Elementary School Teacher, Illinois

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“I would highly recommend Terra Ayres as a Health and Wellness Coach. The time I have spent with her has helped me find new ways to approach my goals that I had never thought of before. Her positive and helpful support kept going as I met my goals. She is very knowledgeable and caring. She has really made a difference in my well being.”

Interior Decorator, Illinois

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“I look forward to my sessions with Terra. I find them to be productive, inspiring, and enjoyable. Terra is not only caring, she’s also an exceptional listener who is not afraid to ask some tough questions to move me forward! I appreciate her dedication and passion for wellness. It is clear that Terra is not only very good at what she does, but also really cares about her clients.”

Financial Planner, Illinois

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“Terra is exactly what I was looking for in a Life Coach. No matter which area we’re working on, I always come away from our sessions with a clearer vision of what I’m trying to accomplish, ideas for a plan to accomplish the vision, and motivated to work the plan. I’ve lost over 40 pounds and have the systems in place to continue being the healthy person I’ve become.”

Data Analyst, Illinois

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“Terra, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate having you as my Coach and all it has done for me. Our sessions together have helped me prioritize and organize healthier eating and I’ve finally been able to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Through our sessions I was able to create an exercise routine I enjoy and am sticking to so I know the changes will last. You have been a great help.”

Nurse, Mom of 4, California

Certifications & Credentials

I’m a Certified Life Coach specializing in Health and Wellness with over 20 years of field experience in health and wellness! I’ve completed over 200 hours of coaching education and earned my professional certification training with Coach Training EDU.

I hold a Professional Coach Certification credential (PCC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as well as National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach credential (NBC-HWC) from the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching.

The ICF is the gold standard of professional life coaching. As shared on the International Coaching Federation website, anyone can call themselves a coach. But ICF-credentialed coaches are professionals who have met stringent education and experience requirements, and have demonstrated a thorough understanding of the coaching competencies that set the standard in the profession. Additionally, they adhere to strict ethical guidelines as part of ICF’s mission to protect and serve coaching consumers.

In order to earn the esteemed PCC credential, I’ve successfully completed the following requirements and continue in good standing with the ICF:

125+ hours of coaching education
500+ hours of coaching experience

10 hours of Mentor Coaching
Successful completion (passing score) of a performance evaluation
Successful completion (passing score) of the ICF Credentialing Exam

I am also a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with an NBC-HWC**. The requirements to earn this esteemed credential include completing an NBHWC approved Training Program, conducting 50+ health and wellness coaching sessions, have an associates degree or higher and pass the 4.5 hour Health and Wellness Certifying Examination.

Terra Ayres is a Professional Certified Coach from ICF

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*The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the world’s largest organization leading the global advancement of the coaching profession and fostering coaching’s role as an integral part of a thriving society. Founded in 1995, its 35,000- plus members located in more than 140 countries and territories work toward common goals of enhancing awareness of coaching and upholding the integrity of the profession through lifelong learning and upholding the highest ethical standards. Through the work of its six unique family organizations, ICF empowers professional coaches, coaching clients, organizations, communities and the world through coaching. Visit coachingfederation.org for more information.

**The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) has collaborated with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) since 2016 to provide a robust board certification examination which has led to more than 5,000 National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coaches that hold the NBC-HWC credential. The esteemed NBC-HWC credential represents training, education, and assessment standards, allowing for the profession to advance in all aspects of health care and wellness.